Scouting Skills

Learn some of the Scouting skills and hobbies below:-

Be Weather Wise!

Learn to recognise the following signs. Note them in you log book and you will see how close they are to being right.

• A bright-blue sky almost always means fair weather.
• A vivid-red sky at sunset: fair tomorrow
• The same sky in early morning: sailors take warning
• The sky is dull and greyish at sunset: could be bad weather tomorrow
• Cloudless sky when the sun sets: fair and cooler tomorrow
• Check the moon: if there is a ring, it means a storm or rain may be on the way

Source : Fieldbook for Australian scouting

The Naismith's rule is very handy if you are going for a hiking trip. It helps you to plan your distance of walking per day.

Allow 1 hour for:

• 5 km easy going
• 3 km easy scrambling
• 1.5 km of extreme rough country, deep sand, soft snow or thick bush

Add 1 hour for:

• every 500 m up
• every 1000 m down
• For every hour (after 5 hours) add an extra hour for fatigue
• Very experienced and very fit walkers can reduce the total by one-third

Source : Fieldbook for Australian scouting

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Source : Manhin Tam, 1993

• The knoting dictionary of Kännet - Learn and memorise those useful knots
• Animated knots for Scouts - See how they do the knots
• Morse Code