I left to hike the ridge from basecamp at 11am that day and didn't make it back until 9pm. I happened to find a sparsely marked cairn trail on the way up and a US Geological survey marker at the top. On the way down I got lost and it was getting close to dark, thought I was going to freeze to death in the woods at night because I had very little gear. I picked a drainage feature between two hills and just decided to walk that down and once I got back in the bottom I eventually found some stuff I recognized and made it back to camp. Had a radio on me but I couldn't get a response from camp except for at the top of the ridge.