Thread: Tips for beginners on not to get lost in the woods?

Originally Posted by kimjon

The cell phone map apps are very good these days, if not better than a garmin gps. The trick is to cache the information prior to going by doing a virtual tiki tour on your phone of the area you'll hunt. Zoom in/out and scroll around on the screen...your phone will cache this information in its memory and will remember it even without reception. However if you don't pre cache...you'll only see the map on a ridiculous scale, unusable in the Bush.

Start small, use nature's handrails like streams, ridgelines, farm boundaries...then cut between them. All of this is done firstly on the map, then put it into place by giving it a go in small blocks to see if you can put in into practice. Once again, set a goal, start small...work up to bigger as you gain confidence.

30 years ago I was terrified of getting lost, but now you could blindfold me, drop me into the middle of anywhere and I'd have the time of my life without a care in the world about getting lost. But I only got to this point by starting small and working up.

Once you realise the Bush is just lots and lots of triangles then navigation becomes very easy.

My Mrs on the other hand still drives the wrong way out the driveway to go to town which is five minutes away, in the opposite direction...