# Lining up Three Trees When You're Lost

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lining-up-three-trees-when-youre-lost/406930>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 6, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lining-up-three-trees-when-youre-lost/406930 "2007-06-06T01:18:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lining-up-three-trees-when-youre-lost/406930/21 "2007-06-08T00:37:37Z")

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[QUOTE=BMax]

If you’re in the mountains, keep walking downhill until you find water and follow it downstream. Soon enough you will come to a road or a town.  
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or an impassible water fall 🙂

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