>>2686773what do you think happens off trail with a cell phone? I've used my phone both to go off trail on purpose and to navigate back to the trail when I accidentally went the wrong way.
You can't even precisely articulate what you think happens with a cell phone once you are off the trail. It still shows your position even if you are not on a visually displayed .gpx file or other graphical representation of your intended path. It still shows the background layer of map and where you are on that.
Like shit, I wish Garmin had competitors and wasn't shitty software and overprices, but it is, and using paper maps is silly because they can't tell you your position instantly like a phone can. You won't acknowledge this is a huge advantage.
And if you have to somehow change your route, you need a new paper map, whereas you can download new offline maps to your phone if you have cell service.
