Tag: challenge

I’ve been a Scout leader for most of the time since 1992. When I was 18, I led a team of Scouts on a week-long hike across Dartmoor for my Queen’s scout award, using proper old-fashioned maps and compasses — the sort with soggy corners and pencil marks from a dozen previous trips. We even used “leap-frog” navigation in thick fog, where you take turns pacing out distances and guiding each other forward through the mist. Over the years I’ve planned many hikes and taught Cubs and Scouts how to find their way using map and compass, the stars, the sun and the moon.