I wasn't sure where to post this, but its outdoors so here seems best.
when i was a kid i was in the cubs then scouts, we used to regularly do these games called "Parachute drops" although it didn't involve jumping out of planes.
This is how it went.
Kids would pile into the back of several vans with no windows and driven to a start point (each start point was different for each team (2 kids) )
sometimes an hour away, sometimes in wales in the middle of nowhere... usually on the moors.
then by using map and compass would have to reach a destination handed to us on a piece of paper.
sometimes you would have to pass through checkpoints and "check in"
first to arrive was the winner... usually one scout group against another.
some of these trips took a weekend and we had to camp out and carry on the day after.
probably doesn't appeal to this generation who prefer games consoles, but as a kid in the late 70s into the early 80s it was exciting stuff
I just wondered if there anything like this for adults?
i suppose its a form of orienteering, is anyone on here a member of a club or do anything like this?
when i was a kid i was in the cubs then scouts, we used to regularly do these games called "Parachute drops" although it didn't involve jumping out of planes.
This is how it went.
Kids would pile into the back of several vans with no windows and driven to a start point (each start point was different for each team (2 kids) )
sometimes an hour away, sometimes in wales in the middle of nowhere... usually on the moors.
then by using map and compass would have to reach a destination handed to us on a piece of paper.
sometimes you would have to pass through checkpoints and "check in"
first to arrive was the winner... usually one scout group against another.
some of these trips took a weekend and we had to camp out and carry on the day after.
probably doesn't appeal to this generation who prefer games consoles, but as a kid in the late 70s into the early 80s it was exciting stuff
I just wondered if there anything like this for adults?
i suppose its a form of orienteering, is anyone on here a member of a club or do anything like this?