While on our hog hunt. Two of our party got turned around in the dark. They didn’t think to drop a pin in a map program as to where they left the ATV.
As luck would have it cell service is pretty good where we were. It would have been a lot longer night with out communications.
I had about a 2 mile walk to where they parked the ATV. Then started it and turned on the lights and made noise so they could get a direction to walk back to the ATV. They were about 400 yds in the opposite direction they thought they were.
At least when they realized they were lost they stopped and sat down and didn’t make things worse.
They will not make fun of me always taking my pack with food, shelter, water,
first aid, compass, and fire making equipment any more.
It’s easy to get turned around when you are in a place you only go once a year.