I’ve been using Gaia for 6 years now back before it was a subscription. Bought it for like $25 and I guess I’m grandfathered in since I don’t have an annual fee.
That said I had no idea they had hunt unit and landowner info. That must be fairly new or maybe that’s only available in the subscription option(?) Is this something you download from external sources or through the Gaia app?
I only ever use it in the field as a mapping/navigating tool and not as much as a scouting tool. Scouting gets done on a computer with GE and any waypoints get exported to Gaia before the hunt and topo/imagery layers of the hunt area get downloaded before the hunt.
I’ll get about 3 days of battery life checking it periodically for topo/terrain features when getting a heading and navigating. I will do some in-field scouting with the previously downloaded imagery layer, if needed, when the elk decide to not be in my drainage lol.
A little hack I found is to scroll around your chosen download hunt area while on WiFi and you’ll have a cache of the areas that aren’t downloaded that you can still view in the field when out of service. It tends to be lower resolution, but it still works in case you have to branch out further than expected. You would need to do this for your topo and imagery layer to have the cache for both, as an example.
Having an active track definitely sucks battery faster so I don’t do it much.
