>>433223If you navigate long stretches of terrain by map, then buy two waterproof map pouches, a large one for your backpack where you keep all the full sized maps and a small one for the map pocket on your pants.
Make color copies for each daily stretch of your journey and load the small map pouch every morning with your daily map. Add a small quality clip on compass to your small map pouch and keep your full sized compass in your main pouch.
Saves you from fumbling and folding around the big maps in bad weather, wind and rain, you do the navigation by simply pulling out your small pouch and can do the route planning with the big maps comfortably when you made shelter.
Even if you got GPS, keep a full sized compass and a good map on you, and learn how to use it.
This is for multiday hikes, if you are simply going for a day hike, just bring the the small pouch with a color copy and the clip-on compass, saves loads of time.
By the way, this is also a thing I always look fro in good hiking pants, that they have a proper map pocket on the right thigh
