Re: DofE rescue

Dominic Sexton <{d-sep03}@dscs.demon.co.uk> writes


I found when helping supervise gold and silver expeditions there would often be one or two people in each group who had a reasonable level of navigational skills and the other members would rely on them. This meant that the work of the 'navigator' was not being checked by other group members so when mistakes were made they might not be spotted for a while.

The ideal scenario of all group members being able to navigate to a reasonable standard and bothering to keep an eye on where they were going was sadly quite rare.


This is exactly what happened on our R & I (Reliability and Initiative) test when I was doing RAF national service.

21 Mile route finding walk in competitive teams of six men, but by the time we reached Thor's Cave at 10pm to look for the last clue we were all together in a bunch, blindly following a small group of guys who had absorbed the map reading training, or who had done some walking before joining up.
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Gordon H
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