All right, today I'd like to welcome back.

Friend of the podcast, Dr. Rob Scaling,

today's going to give us a tip that can make our trips a little bit more enjoy.

Dr. Rob Scamman.

Welcome back to Bob Scammon.

Thanks so much for having me again, Martin.

So I want to talk about your most recent video, directionally challenged, and this is something I can relate to. I have dyslexia, so I have my moments when I'm directionally challenged. Usually it's at the end of the day and I look in a map and everything I look at just looks backwards and I have to say, all right, what are the other tools I can use that my brain will relate to better than looking at a map. Some people just don't even

how to read a map or get confused looking at a phone. So talk to us about directionally

challenged. Sure.

So, you know, first of all, you're getting lost is one of the most common causes for Hiker Rescue.

Just a little statistics, about 65% of search and rescue calls in Yosemite Park alone for the lost hiker.

Over 17 years in Oregon, the whole state, they averaged roughly 330 calls a year for a loss

sector, so almost one a day. It's estimated that roughly 2,000 people become lost and subsequently

rescued in the US per year. Actually about only 1200 in Canada per year, actually about only 1,200 in Canada per year, interestingly enough.

I don't know why that is, but that, you know, but that's a lot of folks per year who are getting

getting lost. And in, I think that's really the only the tip of the iceberg,

because many of us get lost from time to time

and find our way.

That stuff doesn't get reported.

It's only the stuff that leads to rescue. So all it takes is one small lapse in judgment to find ourselves off trail.

It's getting back on trail that becomes the tricky part.

So, so directionally challenged, so I don't know where dyslexia falls in this thing,

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