What works even better than the rope is sidewalk chalk in a parking lot, or
stakes or spray paint in the grass. These do not bend and I have found it
to be more accurate, especially in the wind. The can be touched up very
easily to be used from week to week.
Keith Brooks
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From: Bob Triphahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: 11 29 00 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: [RR] Trailblazer help needed
>Hi All,
>
>The compass course listed by Cmdr. Hamilton can be purchased from the Boy
>Scouts in a nice and neat package. The rope does not come with it but you
>can use a 100' tape measure as your east-west line.
>
>Blessings,
>
>Bob Triphahn
>Sr. Cmdr. O/P 312
>Victory Church
>St. Clair, Mo.
>
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>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 5:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [RR] Trailblazer help needed
>
>
>>
>>
>> There are a couple of ways this can be handled.
>>
>> There is a course that is available, I think from Silva. It consists of
a
>> 100 ft. rope, with each 5 ft. marked off with a brass marker with a
number
>> on it. One end has the number 1 going up to 20. They provide a number
of
>> course directions that will say something like this:
>>
>> Start @ number 5.
>> go 56 degrees for 88 feet
>> go 165 degrees for 75 feet
>> go 320 degrees for 25 feet (not a real example, so this may not work)
>>
>> After following the directions you SHOULD wind back on the rope at some
>> other marker (may be the same one). You then tell the course operator
the
>> number you started on, and he will tell you if that is the right one or
>> not. When we ran this at pow-wow, you got 15 points if it was the right
>> one, 10 points if you were one off to the left or right, 5 points if you
>> were 2 off, etc.
>>
>>
>> Another way we have done this in advancement outings is to set up a
course
>> before hand, where you will start at a designated point and go in a given
>> direction for a given number of feet. Do this three times and find out
>> where you end up. A marker will have been placed at the correct ending
>> point. The participants should end up close to that marker if they have
>> run the course right.
>>
>> Try not to make the ending marker something that can be easily
>> distinguished. Make it something low to the ground, so they are not
>> tempted to find it and walk toward it and say "I made it". You can also
>> put markers at the other points along the way.
>>
>> You can also create the course with more than one 3-point course, using
>> different colored markers for each course. This way if you have a few
>> Trailblazers, you will have them running different courses, and they will
>> not be tempted to follow each other.
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> james baney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/26/2000 02:49:46 PM
>>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> cc: (bcc: Robert D Hamilton/Page Digital)
>>
>> Subject: [RR] Trailblazer help needed
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I was looking at the Trailblazer 2nd class
>> requirements. Under Compass, it asks the Recruit to
>> run a 3 point compass course. I cant find any
>> information on that compass course in the TB Handbook,
>> Adventures in Camping or the Leader HB. Can anyone
>> help?
>>
>>
>>
>> =====
>> James Baney
>> OP 4 - Arizona District
>>
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