[masraum]

I hit the thickest fog that I can remember seeing or driving in last week one morning. My commute is 84 miles. Often the fog clears up a fair amount about 4 miles from the house. I got about 10-12 miles down the road and turned around and came back home. It wasn't worth driving to work in that kind of fog.

I had never thought about running into that sort of fog on the water. I suppose better on a lake than in the ocean, but neither is good. On a road, you've got the pavement and landmarks "just passed ____ street" kind of thing, but on the water, you're just lost, no landmarks, no nothing, not even specific sounds to help orient when at a lake in the fog. And some lakes are big enough that it's not comforting to think "well, I'm going to be somewhere on the lake". And then a wonky fish finder GPS on top of that. Hell no!