Stalking
Source text
Section titled “Source text”Instructor acts as a deer—not hiding but standing, moving a little now and then if he likes.
Scouts go out to find and each in his own way tries to get up to him unseen.
Directly the instructor sees a scout he directs him to stand up as having failed. After a certain time the instructor calls “time,” all stand up at the spot which they have reached and the nearest wins.
The same game may be played to test the scouts in stepping lightly—the umpire being blindfolded. The practice should preferably be carried out where there are dry twigs lying about, and gravel, etc. The scout may start to stalk the blind enemy at 100 yards distance, and he must do it fairly fast—say in one minute and a half—to touch the blind man before he hears him.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys (1908)
- Printed pages: 114–115
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 114
- Read the automatic translation: sfb-022