In 1996, Ron Crabb, the then editor of Scouting magazine, commissioned a series of articles on basic Scouting skills and decided that Scout Troops should be encouraged to rediscover pioneering projects and Activities. The basic idea was to produce a set of pioneering instructions for a selection of Scout pioneering projects that would aid a Scouter with little or no experience to achieve the successful build of a pioneering structure for the Boy Scouts.
