Personally, I don't see the big deal. When I was as young as 10, I'd roam as many as 10 miles from home through the woods with nothing but the clothes on my back. Worst case scenario, if your friends all left, thought you'd gone ahead or something, and the atv conked out, you'd have had a 25 mile hike out, and maybe a night spent hungry and cold in the woods. Uncomfortale, but hardly life threatening -unless I missed something and the weather was crappy - or had the possibility of becoming that way. Something to be avoided, surely, that's why we prepare, but imo, not a big deal, we all forget sometimes, hell, I think I left home without my head once or twice. Of course living in the south, I could leave home naked and other than embarrassing a squirrel or too, I'd be fine 9 months out of the year.