This will familiarize you with the terrain behind you and it will be easier for you to recognize the proper path when you return. This rule applies when you are driving into the woods as well. Forested dirt roads have a way of becoming very familiar after awhile, even if you haven't seen them before. Learn to recognize your own tracks, foot and vehicle , as a clue to your previous travels. Learn to use a walking stick to mark your trail.
Marks left by a walking stick are very distinctive.
Read the rest of this book so you will know what to do if you have an emergency survival situation. I sat there on a rock, staring in morbid fascination as I watched the ants feast on the maggots in his eye sockets. Suddenly the wind shifted in my direction, so I moved to a position farther away and out of the odor. I was in the mountains of northern Turkey with a small group of Turkish Askari practicing survival and pathfinding skills. It was early spring and the snows had just begun to melt from the canyons in this part of Anatolia.