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| Pilgrim Way |
a slang word for reconnaissance, reconnoitre
Every leader for a hill walk in our All Year Ramblers club must prepare. They select a walk from the approximately 500 walks that are documented in the club library (this club has been walking two times every week for over 100 years), and they do a recce prior to the actual walk. Since Scotland is a walker's paradise, and since there are an inconceivable number of trails and paths, many dozen of decisions will need to be made on every walk about the proper way to go at the intersections. Today's walk benefitted from an even higher level of preparation. The leader assembled a briefing packet that included a topo map with the route marked and a full set of labeled photos of interesting sights we would see. But wait, there is more; as an amateur historian and naturalist the leader also stopped many dozens of times to educate us about a rock, or flower, or ruin, or place, or name, or bird, or... Talk about proper prior planning.