Natural Navigation 🧭 Sharing a wee resource with you all this morning on natural navigation; in particular, using the sun to find directions. Having the ability to find out the cardinal points when outdoors is very beneficial and this is just 1 way of using natural navigation. I may turn this into a series 🤔. Place a stick in the ground and watch a shadow appear. Place a rock at the tip of this shadow and it will be the approximate West. Wait 10-15 mins and place a rock at the tip of the shadow, which should now have moved - this is East. We now have our West - East line. To find North, stand with your left foot at West and right foot at East and you'll be facing North. Handy trick 👍🏼

Yesterday was a busy day for me so coupling Thoughtful Thursday with Friday's Quizzy Question 👇🏼 ❓If access to the outdoors was taken away, what do you think would happen? Now, in Scotland, we have the Right to Roam so long as the Scottish Outdoor Access Code is followed. In England, it's a little different, they have some freedoms but less than Scotland. I'm unsure how things work overseas, but from what I can gather, in the US, there are National Parks available for visiting, but there are trespass laws and it's a little stricter? (Happy to be corrected). But what if complete access was blocked, no outdoor tourism/ no visiting National Parks, trespassing extended to these areas and more 😬 A horrible thought, but could it happen? Perhaps? a) How would you cope - emotionally & otherwise b) How do you think 'they' would begin implementing something like this? c) How long do you reckon it would take the public to revolt and cause chaos for those attempting to restrict its use? Let's open discussion and remember to be kind: 👇🏼 you guys know what to do 👍🏼

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I'm not winning on the Friday Quizzy Question team am I haha! What I'd love to do is hand it over to you guys so each member has a turn at offering up their own Quizzy Question. To begin with, I wonder if @Rodney Thompson Outdoor Skills would take this coming Friday? It would be awesome to make this a whole community thing 😁 Anyways yesterday's question that I didn't get around to posting was: Which is higher? Mount Lhotse or Kangchenjunga. No Googling or searching! Just take a guess if unknown!

Taking a moment to recognise the women in this group (not that the guys aren't important of course). As we know, there are numerous women who have pioneered in the outdoors and today this continues with some top athletes in a variety of outdoor related sporting activities. Thankful for those early women, leading the way for us 👣