I remember a few years ago being at the top of mickledore from wasdale about to turn up to the left to scafell pike summit when a couple of chaps stopped me to confirm where they were, they were convinced scafell pike was up to the right and were using a GPS, even though I had never been up there before and the clag was down, I'd practiced map and compass skills on my own, reading books and on valley walks in good conditions so felt confident up in the fells. The other day I was on a family day out to roseberry topping, a beautiful clear day and was amazed whilst we were at the top a guy asked us which was the way back, back to where? I asked him, he didn't have a clue where he had come from, which path or anything, astounding.

Anyway, I digress, I do have a Garmin forerunner I use and I do have a garmin etrex gps to plan runs and then follow it in an area I've not run in before, but always have a map and compass as back up, just cos it's easier to follow a gps without stopping all the time to check a map, but I agree nothing comes close to knowing how to use a map and compass (although tell that to my husband when i was arguing with him at the top of carn mor dearg in the clag that our silva compass was totally wrong, but it was me that was wrong)