I do it every year. I hunt down in East-Central WV. There are about 1,000,000 acres in the Mon. Forrest in that area. We drive to our camp butwhen we hunt and hang stands mystand is about a 1.5mile walk thru a couple of different hollows and such back into nothing but woods and old logging roads. If I dont hunt my portable I'll usually climb the largest ridge in the area because Im usually garuanteed to be the only one up there. A lot of days I just go "Walk about" and have to see whats over the next ridge and the next etc... Ive been turned around a couple time's and will prob start carrying a GPS for next year but never seem to have any real problems finding my way back.

There are 4 of us that go and we do use radios to keep in touch. I rarely get far enough that Im not in contact with at least one of them.