As long as it is fine, you will find your way back by following your own tracks, but if the weather changed suddenly, and it came on to snow, your case would be hopeless.

One of the advantages of placing our hut on a stream is that it forms a great aid to finding one's way back.

If you strike it above, you follow it down; if below, upwards, until you reach the hut.

Of course you might wander for days and never hit it, still it is much more easy to find than a small object like the hut, though even when found, it would be difficult to decide whether it had been struck above or below the hut.
"Now, there is one rule if, at any time, you get lost.

Don't begin to wander wildly about, for, if you did, you would certainly walk in a circle, and might never be found again.