last but not least, an old-fashioned paper mapof the area should be brought along, easy to find online or at a bookstore.

needless to say, smoking and consuming alcoholic beverages in a forest can endanger everyone in a group, and it is usually forbidden in all parks by any legitimate guide.

furthermore, while not a safety recommendation per se, we must highlight that feeding animals is forbidden, as it can jeopardize the animals' self-sufficiency in the wild by creating a dependency on being fed by humans.