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Unpopular opinion: paper maps beat my phone on the JMT and my brother thinks I'm nuts
My brother and I got into it over Thanksgiving about navigation on the John Muir Trail, and he said relying on paper in 2025 is just asking for trouble. I get his side, my phone died at 11,000 feet near Forester Pass in July and the battery bank only got me halfway, so a map and compass saved that day. But he argues a real GPS unit with backup batteries is lighter and faster than a map case, and honestly he's got a point about route finding in fog. So where do you all land, is paper still worth the weight or is it time to go fully digital?
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andrew_rodriguez18d ago
Why not just carry both and stop fighting about it? Paper never needs charging, but a GPS does route finding way better when you can't see anything in fog.
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