Night Hike

This is a great meeting to do around the Winter Solstice, when it gets dark early. You can also do this as an all-section meeting, since the activity is appropriate for a wide variety of ages (and the older kids need to get night hikes in too for their own badges). You can start your hike at 5 pm and be done by 6:30 or so, which is good timing for Otters.

• Opening Ceremony
• Discuss Night Hiking and what you're going to be doing.
  • Using your headlamps/flashlights as little as possible to let your eyes adjust
  • Using your other senses: hearing, touch, smell
  • How is the forest different at night from how it is during the day?
• Night hike
• Closing Ceremony

• Night Hike

• Remind scouts to bring headlamps or flashlights

• Night Hike