Today with the reliance on GPS, nobody can read a map and they don't have a good sense of where they are when they start. Forget a compass. They will never look at the direction of the sun when they start. If their cell phone goes dead or loses signal, they have no clue.
So true! No situational awareness either. If you asked them if they have noticed or paid attention to any landmarks along the trail, small or large, they are lost. Did they even turn around ever and look back at where they came with some vague notion of what it will look like going the other way. Nope!
