Potential Wilderness Backpacking Navigation App Idea

I think this is how many people already use GPS apps (e.g. Gaia). Just check the app at a decision point. I never store tracks.

The app doesn’t give custom information like miles on a trail, but I don’t need that.

With an android, if you put it in battery, power saving mode, it will only look at the GPS when you turn the display on.  Using gaia for example.

You can even have it taking a track.  It will only take track points when you turn the display on.  Then it will tell you how far you’ve gone and how far to go.  Of course the distance gone can be quite inaccurate depending how often you turn the display on and how straight the route is.

Maybe it uses 1% of the battery per hour.

The Garmin instinct watch meets those requirements, following it’s breadcrumb trail.  A couple days charge but the battery is very small and charging it doesn’t take much juice

I’d be happy to have Gaia from before they were bought by Outside.

It keeps automatically updating.  Sometimes it breaks things. Like I had downloaded a bunch of topo maps, but now they’re gone.