(And, incidentally, a 2013 report by the Outdoor Foundation suggested close to 40 percent of all Americans do take advantage of them while engaged in outdoor recreation.) Smartphone apps can deliver you instant trailside flower guides, birdsong identifiers, celestial charts-and, most notable of all of course, maps and other navigational references for both staying oriented and recording your own movements through the backcountry. ![]() ![]() Even if you personally eschew the regular use of a smartphone on your backpacking or paddling or hunting adventures, it’s not a bad idea to have one stowed away in the pack: If nothing else, it’s another emergency tool in case you run into trouble.īut there’s much else to take advantage of, outdoors-wise, with today’s immensely powerful mobile devices. The use of smartphones out in the wilderness is controversial, but there’s no question the technology has real utility.
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