Well as long as there are no Deliverance kind of people up in those hills, i al all for getting a little lost now and then.
Fully realizing that lost in the US are completely different from lost in Denmark, actually as it have been seen several times even a deadly affair.
There have also been a few cases of people here driving into some harbour as google maps direct them strait to a ferry ramp that is there alright but the ferry route closed years ago.
It amaze me people are that stupid.
It also amaze me people cant even backtrack if they ventured onto some dead end road.
I like getting into my car and then just drive with the aim of getting "lost" or at the very least drive some roads i for sure have never been onto before, actually did a little of that today using google maps and me intentionally missing a direction change, the damn thing just directed me into a big loop and back to the turn i missed.
But that loop was mainly new to me roads and a little town too.
Really i think nav softwares should go " you are driving close to water be vigilant" now and then when a route take you near suck features of the landscape.
I also think they should " NIX" old tracks like DM mention, at least so they only pop up if you are in walking or bicycling mode, and if it is a dead end road, it should also be mentioned at once you enter it.
But sure some people just can not hack it, my friend is a good example, he can get lost in a dark room.
One night years ago we was driving our little 4x4 RC scale trucks in a forest, and my friend was like " i hope you know where we are CUZ i have no clue"
I was like DUDE ?????? you can hear the water in the creek to our left, which we both know we parked at downstream, so if there is a navigation issue i would just walk to the stream and follow it down to our cars, and we also know the highway bridge we have to passe under just before that, and the little wooden bridge across the creek 100 M or so after we have passed under highway.
By down stream i mean the direction of the water flow, there are really no river in Denmark where you see the water speed up due to drop in altitude.
Also you have to listen for it, there are not really any river here where the water is "white" but even a gentle creek have its sounds, even if its under 1 foot deep and you can jump across it in many places.