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[QUOTE="dougfitz, post: 127162, member: 10982"] Annie, you are just so wrong! Maybe you didn't get lost, but that does not mean the experience is universal. If I don't count the difficulty I had in Pamplona, Leon and Ponferrada, there were three other places where I lost, and I can tell you I was not the only one who had difficulty. While I can make an art form of getting lost, I found others who had met similar problems in two of the places where I had had difficulty. I see others like you who claim it is not possible to get lost, especially on the Camino Frances. The general observation is this is because it is so well marked. Well its not. For a start, there are few 'wrong way' markers if one wanders off the agreed path. If your concentration falters at some critical juncture, there is the risk one is well off track before that is clear, and one then faces back-tracking some distance. My second observation is that there were critical junctions which were completely unmarked, and I can only think there was an assumption that one would not choose one of the alternatives. I found this in a couple of places where a GR route diverged from the Camino path. Perhaps I just didn't search hard enough for the Camino arrow! The other issue was the practice by some albergues that were off the marked route to use the Camino arrow to direct pilgrims to their establishment. Where the arrows were clearly marked with an 'A' or similar indication that this was the way to an albergue, that wasn't a problem, but it wasn't obvious to me all the time. Did carrying a GPS help? Not always. It didn't work well in the cities and major towns where taller buildings and narrow streets obstruct the signal. What it did was let me know on all three time I was lost that I had deviated from the track that I had loaded. On one of those, there were other signs that I was going the wrong way relatively quickly, and I had only walked a few hundred metres before turning back and rejoining the marked path. On one other, it took me some time to find the markings, and I probably did more than an extra hour to get back on track. On the third I was able to see that there was an alternative route that I could take, and still reach my intended destination. [/QUOTE]
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