Re: Mapping
Russ Jones (CSRTJ@TTUHSC.EDU)
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:06:16 -0500
>At 02:21 PM 9/11/97 -0400, Dave Rogers wrote:
>The question I have is, what does the requirement mean, "using a compass and
>a map you've drawn, take a 5-mile hike?"
<SNIP>
>I've never really understood what this requirement wants done. I'm taking
>suggestions.
Bob Losee offered excellent reasoning as to why the Scout is required to
draw his own map, and Jim Peterson presented some excellent methods for
doing so. Beyond giving the Scout some actual practice in using a map and a
compass, I would suggest that "what this requirement wants done" also
includes teaching the Scout that taking a hike should involve not only the
decision to go from "point a" to "point b", but that it should also include
some fairly detailed pre-hike planning of how he is actually going to
accomplish that objective.
Yours in Scouting,
Russ Jones <csrtj@ttuhsc.edu>
Scoutmaster, Troop 575 & 1997 National Jamboree Troop 1636
South Plains Council, Lubbock, Texas
Eagle Scout, class of 1965
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