Amen to this!! (But we've already had a discussion about smartphones on another WB thread).
In the old days we used to backpack the Appalachian Trail using either these set of books with maps---
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Nowadays it seems everything has to be terminally parsed and planned and studied and confabulated with no deviations and no surprises. In the old days we would start backpacking up the AT in Georgia and midway thru North Carolina we'd hitch to a regional rainbow gathering and camp for a week. Where's the guidebook for this???
And don't get me going on a long rant about Smartphones and Why I Hate Them.