Depending on the situation, helping someone get back to a known trail via phone or text is absolutely a thing that is done. More often than not though, there ar

Depending on the situation, helping someone get back to a known trail via phone or text is absolutely a thing that is done. More often than not though, there are confounding factors like fatigue, dehydration, weather, extremely difficult terrain, etc. and it's safer to just come get them rather than risk them getting into deeper trouble.