EC has said quite a few times he'd like to f..k me, so like any good boy scout I'm always prepared, up to now his attempts have been woeful.
On a serious note, get out and about as much as you can, I walked miles (lucky where I live) when I owned dogs, 5-6 miles minimum every day (two walks) but up to 20 miles if I had a day off, loved it, especially the Reiver roads and Roman roads which are still there, although in wild places. What started it was a walk with the county archaeologist one day, he opened up to me a whole new world of things to discover on walks, burials, hill forts, Roman camps, abandoned villages etc etc I began to understand bumps in the ground, fortifications, old railway lines and mine workings, what always seemed strange to me were that in the wildest spots there were traces of man and you were not the only one to have walked there. Buy the biggest map you can, learn how to use a compass (for variation and deviation) and wear good boots, you need little else. We also have many marked routes in the forests which are great for novices, with different lengths and difficulty and sights along the way (such as a cave where a Reiver hid and was shot, you can still see the bloodstains), rock carvings from all ages, prehistoric, roman, viking and more recent, and burial mounds.