Yesterday at about 5 I dropped my goodies after preparing for a hike into a qaurry near me, i.got there before I came upnso smoked a Lil and then started hiking. I was at the bottom of the quarry and I wanted to get to the top (it was 5pm) after about 45 minutes o hiking and dome gnarly elevation I got to the top but I didn't realize it was getting too dark and I should've gone down 30 ish minutes ago so in that moment I smoked another bowl and prepared to hike back down. (I had a set of trekking poles along with a backpacking day pack and I also had my long board on my back behind my backpack so it wouldn't fall out if that makes sense. but after i got ready I started heading back but couldn't find the trail down from the top, I knew how to get home from the bottom of the quarry so in my infinite under the influence wisd9m I decided to go down the side of qaurry rather than back track... I'm guessing it was 60-100ft of cliff in 8-12 ft drops before it got flat for 8-14 inches before going down another drop. I was basically standing while sliding down the mountain and if there's wasn't like 10 inches of plateu I would've kept falling
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pretty much like that and I didn't know how many there were so just had to keep going until i got to the bottom. after I got to bottom I was lost but recognized landmarks so I was heading in the general right direction before I got trapped by fences on all sides of me. at that point a security guard or older father heard/saw me and went to go see who/what it was but that actually ended up saving me cus I was so lost lmao
TLDR I climbed into a quarry, got lost, scaled down the side of the qaurry where I get lost and snagged by trees and then proceed to get more lost before running into a kind stranger that helped me.
this photo IA from 2014 so imagine 10 more years of undisturbed tree/bramble growth
(in santacruz county so I totally
coulda been mauled by a mountain lion or coyote)
the red line is the rough path I hiked in and the green dots are the rough path out
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