If you advance through the Scouting ranks and gain outdoor skills you might be selected for the "Order of the Arrow." To qualify, the test often requires a night in the woods on your own where you use survival skills, which is called "The Ordeal." Over the years, because of the buddy system, he was there to save my life once when I flipped my canoe in a lake with 38-degree water. The debate over the dangers and merits of going it alone ignited again last week, when the stories emerged of a second death of a solo hiker in a month on Mount Tamalpais.
Skills, And A Buddy, Can Be Lifesavers In Outdoors
Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle: Sports
Sun, 04/20/2014 - 5:40pm
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