Learning the Art Tracking is probably the single most important skill any professional searcher can have. It is the single, most important skill that can help a searcher find clues. Learning to follow sign is not an easy task. As expressed by Ab Taylor, Jack Kearney and Joel Hardin the best way to learn, is to follow a trail, step by step.
Tracking takes patience, self discipline, concentration and a true desire to want to learn.
This is not a skill that is easily mastered. Learning to follow or find, sign can be a very humbling procedure. The next ten to fifteen minutes, that are spent looking for that elusive print becomes one session, of many, of the best learning that will occur. To learn to track is a time consuming process. To start, you must learn the basics of the theory.