How do you find your stands and/or your way outin the dark?

Check all that apply.

EDIT: Rybo brought up a good point about how hunting the same land for extended periods of time can give you a lot of familiarity - vitiating the "need" for a crutch to help find your way. So, in light of that, I guess this discussion applies moreso to hunting "new" properties every year or accessinga wide variety of different and/or revolving stand sites.




If I get into an area where I might miss my tree - I break out theglowtacks. But, I'm actually so cheap and shady that I refuse to tack the whole way from the car to the stand. So, I follow the natural boundaries in as far as possible, then tack my way through the best point of ingress/egress.

Maybe I'm ultra noided out by such things, but I tend to think that if you tack all the way back to the parking area, you're just inviting other people to follow the tacks all the way in to your stand sites. So, for my more convoluted hikes, I might have a 1/2 mile walk, but only 50-100 yards of tack lines.

Also, for the early season hunts, I stack the tacks closer together to make them easier to follow through the dense foliage.