Finding your way

We hear much about Sat Nav's and mobile phone apps but frankly a decent map - for the UK and Ordnance Survey (O.S.) map is all you need with a compass for getting about having a lot of useful information  including notable views or sites being 100% reliable in all conditions and with no issues with mobile coverage or battery life.

This is a typical edition that has a download that could be stored on a smartphone that could be accessed even if there was no mobile signal.

In scouting we do learn about how to read maps as these Cubs are doing where there is a presentation going on.

Although the design does change there are Activity Award badges to be won for Cubs and others in the Scout Family.

Yes in 2022 I would add a mobile phone which can be a simple text and call model for emergency contact being the modern equivalent to  telephone call  box whose battery life is higher than internet enabled Smartphones but it doesn't replace the treid and tested map which as boys we learned.