Mason
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The plan was gone.
The loop didn't matter.
The mileage didn't matter.
All that mattered was getting to a trailhead, any trailhead, or finding another person who wasn't him.
The problem was that the forest had a way of making every direction feel the same.
The canopy blocked the sky.
The rain blurred everything.
When we checked the map, the lines felt abstract, like they belonged to a different world.
Mason's GPS should have helped, but when he turned it on, it showed something that didn't make sense.
The track line looked jagged, looping back on itself in places we knew we hadn't looped.
Mason shook it, like that could fix it.
Then he swore and turned it off.
It's not working, he said.
Battery?
I asked.
He opened the compartment.
The batteries were there.
The screen had power.
It just wasn't getting a signal.
That can happen under heavy canopy and in bad weather, sure.