I’m sorry to hear that. I just went to the ravine myself and had no such issue on both a fresh and patched game. I have I think just one question for you. Based on the fact that you can use the map, which as far as I know is busted in V0.18, what version are you on? The game tells you on the title screen in the top left corner.
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Good luck. There have been a few reports since the game was first posted about issues like this. I think I’ve fixed most of them at this point but it wouldn’t surprise me if more still exist. If you happen to run into it try to remember anything you were doing prior to being locked in the pause screen. In all likelihood there is some odd combination of actions that ticks a bool and ends up locking you in.