Keep yourself safe on the trails: Get Knowledge

Don't get lost.... Contact your local REI, study online, take a community college class.  We still live in a country where cell signal can be unreliable, and even the best GPS device can fail.

After recently getting a little confused in the Rio Puerco Basin of New Mexico (I was somwhere between a Mesa, and the Ojito Wilderness), I've decided I definitely need to get my bearings and learn how to orienteer, read a map better, and figure out true North...even if I'm stuck in level plain flat lands that all look the same.