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by ghaff 1411 days ago
>I do it all the time and never met anybody else do it. Rather everybody happily relies on online maps.

That's a good example of one way to reduce a pretty common failure mode.Lack of cell phone service is probably a lot more common than a dead phone especially if you carry a backup external battery. (Outside of extreme conditions but that's a separate matter.)