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Tracking the Trail of a Dispatched Group

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An escaping group may split into smaller units, rejoin, or use evasive maneuvers such as: walking backward, crossing streams, or marching along their beds (not over a large area, but in a way that allows trackers to find the trail leading out of the stream with relative ease).

The fugitives may perform various actions: lighting a fire, burying something, or leaving behind notes.

Notes may be: incomplete, with torn or scorched sections, copied onto blotting paper, torn and scattered, encrypted, written in Morse code, or with invisible ink (easily done using milk or lemon juice).

The above exercises work exceptionally well on a path shortly after rain or in winter on snow (also off the path). Such games also yield good results on less-frequented seaside beaches. In winter, we can apply a variation of the previous game in the form of:


Source scan: Polona / National Library, marked “Public Domain”. View scan — image 107.

  • Type: game
  • Traits: Not stated in the source
  • Source: Jan Jasiński, Gry i ćwiczenia terenowe (Harce terenowe) (1938)
  • Printed pages: 99
  • Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
  • Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 99
  • Read the source text: gct-035