I’m a leader with a group similar to scouts. We were on a trip with boys and leaders from several troops. The trail lead told us he had a map. Several miles in i asked to see it and he shows me his Apple watch with some squiggly lines on it.
He told me we were hiking 11 miles. Since his entire map was on an1” square he couldn’t really make out the 29 mile distance.
Lesson learned. Paper map and don’t trust millennials.
One morning on a camping trip we saw a Boy Scout troop and its leader hiking by on the other side of a tiny creek and on their side about an 8 foot embankment, for some reason my buddy and I decided that the scout leader had to go into the creek, and without speaking, we (4 of us about 17) and the scout troop all seemed to understand everything, and the fight was on, not fistfighting, it was the grappling/shoving/throwing/tripping type struggle to get to their leader and get him into the water, it was a silent ball and we finally got him in the water, and then everyone went on their way, a strange guy thing.
OMG
We camped overnight below a small rise in the terrain, as originally planned. A bit later in the evening a minor concern arose for which it was considered advisable to contact someone back home. The millennials whipped out their cell phones but were perplexed when none of them could get any signal bars. We were on the east slope. I wandered a hundred yards to get a line of sight to South Lake Tahoe and easily got a usable signal. Then I Went back to camp to share the solution with my group. They were very relieved and were able to make the needed calls to home. But imo everyone should know that em signals such as used by cell phones do not penetrate dirt and rock, particularly if one is going in the back country and relying on cell phones in any way. I could mention a couple of other similar experiences from the same trip but I prefer to keep low key.