Steve MacIntyre writes...
In 02 I had a dehydrated Scout. We were on trek 32NFM2. What we did was to put him at the front of the line, we stopped every 15 minutes for him to drink 8 oz of water, the go for another 15 minutes. He was playing cards and laughing at camp that night. When this decision was made several of the older Scouts grunted. At the end of the day we had covered more ground quicker and with less problems than the days before. What the sick Scout did was to keep us at a even pace and we did not stop as much and no one was
tired when we were going up hill. Some times the turtle does win the race. <snip>
Comment ...
Another point Patriots' Path stresses during its preparation weekend for crews is that the slowest hiker is always in the lead. And we note that the slowest hiker usually changes day to day, hour to hour, or by terrain (some are slow uphill, someone else downhill). When a gap opens in the line of hikers (another reason for the spacing between hikers to be a reasonably short distance - the gap will be obvious), the hiker at the back of the gap is now the slowest and immediately moves to the front.
It sounds counter-intuitive, but the crew WILL cover ground faster when the slowest hiker sets the pace.
-- Al Thomson, Troop 236,
Schooley's Mountain, NJ
Treks 1999, 2001, 2003
Autumn Adventures 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
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