I get your frustration, but I have way more respect for someone who sets a plan and sticks to it even when it means failure than I do for someone who does something pretty stupid based on pride and endangers other people because they have to go look for him. So well done. You live to try again, and that's all that really matters anyway.

One day I'd like to hike the entire John Muir Trail and not leave a single footprint. -Randy Morgenson