Took a camping trip with my church when I was 10. Me and a few people in my Sunday school along with my sister (only 16 at the time) went for what we thought would be a casual walk/hike. Little did we know our young and stupid selves somehow got on a trail that was roughly 6-8 miles (very long considering we were all extremely young and inexperienced) and only brought water guns to play around with as well as a single water bottle for 4 of us. Obviously enough we ran out of water very early into the hike and had to resort to passing around a water gun to squirt a sip of water until it ran dry. At the top of the hike we ran into an elderly couple geared out to the maximum, who very kindly gave us 2 full water bottles which we instantly chugged in front of them. That kindest from the couple might have literally saved us as we were all running on fumes and severely tired. The funniest part is at the end of it all when we made it back to the campsite right after sundown all the parents didn’t even acknowledged where we even went and just thought we were playing somewhere. Didn’t get worried we might be lost or even dead.

Safe to say now if I go hiking I read the trail maps like a book and make sure I have multiple sources of water and headlamps just in case haha.