Happy birthday hikermor!

When I’m out hiking, I do fire up my GPS app and drop a waypoint on the car, the trailhead if they’re not very close to one another, and other spots. Since my phone is my primary camera I’ll both shut down other functions (killing all unused background apps, turning off cellular data) and also carry a fully-charged USB power pack.

I did get turned around while hiking alone a few years ago without dropping a waypoint first. A little bit of “Stop Think Observe and Plan” and I was able to re-orient well enough to hit the road I was looking for and all was well.