Keep the river on your right. You mean when you're going in or coming back out??

We're lost but nobody knows it.

It's OK to be lost in the wilderness when you're wearing a fine Italian gator as a headpiece, a Sierra Club Ski Patrol poncho, and a serious look of lost awareness.
Keep the river on your right. Saw several Moose and heard several "noises" pacing me in the woods. 15 miles.