I've taught map-and-compass orienteering at the local mountaineering club, feel reasonably familiar with 'em, wouldn't go without them.

AND, in my opinion, a working GPS is far and away better for navigating. For one thing, in forests one can go for miles and miles and miles without a view of anything to reference. If there is low cloud cover it's worse. If one is on a trail an altimeter is generally a good way to identify where one is.

As a student I missed map features such as meadows by as little as 50 feet in dense forest, and kept going not aware I had passed my waypoint. (Got lost that time, I was found by others looking for someone else. Didn't tell 'em I wasn't on course.)

A compass is super. I have two, acutally three, with me, one on my watch, a 'freestanding' compass, and the GPS.

Arf