Smoke, great cattle drive story! Someday, in person, remember to ask me about the arrowhead water 18 wheel tanker that missed a turn going to the spring upcountry from us Arrowhead filled all those little bottles with. Yup, he kept going and going, the roads finally turned to two tracks. He kept going. It was his first and last trip up into the mountains. He finally got smart and stopped. Well not really smart, he couldn't go forward any longer. Backing up or turning around was lost as a option a few miles back. He walked out a day later. It took almost a month to find the tanker. No way could the driver remember where he left it. Do you know how much a rig like that costs? The first two days of the search arrowhead had a helicopter in the air. Do you know how much that costs?
The search was ended. Around a month later a guy I know was working a timber project. He gave a radio call to dispatch, "What in the hell is a giant shiny tanker doing out here?" He never paid attention to memos, notices, or bolo.
Smoke, I guess I went ahead and told the story.