You don’t go into the sticks or swamp without a compass, idiot.
Hope he learns the lesson.
It may have been more serious if he got lost in the Washington swamp that hasn’t been drained yet!
Yep - and know where the roads run so going in a general direction can bring you to one of them if you get totally lost. Used to hunt in areas where if you got around the end of a road and kept going, it might be 20 or more miles before another and it would be possible to wander for a looooong time w/o seeing civilization (a dirt road that had been driven on in the last 5 days)....
There is excellent cell coverage in the Cicero Swamp area.
I have Mil-GPS app on my phone, or in the absence of that, the maps app on the phone will suffice. Mark the location of the vehicles as a waypoint, and use where necessary.
What a dope.