[DoingIsLearning]

> inability to scale their perception, and "think big" when navigating.

This indeed, when navigating a city I always found that I understood 'distances'.

When navigating in nature I tend to really overestimate how much ground I have covered. You are usually moving at snail speed on the typical scale of a topo map.

Getting some intuition on distance covered per unit of time is in my view the missing skill to have when orientering. You need to have a good estimate of casual hike velocity and fast hike velocity to better not underestimate distances.