Return of the Mystery Maze

Z was going to go climbing in the Red (aka Red River Gorge) with their Obie buddy, but that plan fell through which was kinda sad for Z as they love to climb, but was also nice for the rest of us because we got a surprise bonus week of Zara time!

We took the opportunity of said bonus Z time to do some fun Fall things, and that includes going to the corn maze. When the kiddos were younger we'd often do the "big" maze at Liberty Mills, usually at night/by flashlight, but we've since moved on to a new challenge. These days the group seems to prefer the "mystery maze" which is basically 8 acres of mapless madness, designed to challenge the most inherently direction centered peeps. In a previous incarnation we had 5 for the maze, and this time it was just 3 of us so one of our primary strategies (leave one person behind while everyone else fans out and checks for dead ends vs the way through) was less effective since we either had only 2 checking paths or 3 of us would go but the water bottle we left to mark out place wasn't very responsive to our cries of "Marco." It took us 2:20 to finish the maze (about 30 min longer than our last attempt, though also that was different maze?) and we "lost the plot" at least twice. There was a bit of (educated?) guessing involved, but I generaly stand by our maze conquering skills.