Exploring faraway mountains! Traveling through deep dark jungles! Crossing dry, hot deserts! All of the adventurers who master these journeys got their start on a simple hike, just like the ones you and your Wolf den are about to start on! Hike on, Wolf Scout!
Rationale for Adventure
This adventure will encourage the development of hiking skills in Scouts.
Requirements
Complete requirements 1-5. Requirements 6 and 7 are optional
- Show you are prepared to hike safely in any outdoor setting by putting together the Cub Scout Six Essentials to take along on your hike.
- Tell what the buddy system is and why we always use it in Cub Scouting. Describe what you should do if you get separated from your group while hiking.
- Choose the appropriate clothing to wear on your hike based on the expected weather.
- Before hiking, recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your leader. (This may be combined with requirement 3 of the Call of the Wild adventure.) After hiking, discuss how you showed respect for wildlife.
- Go on a 1-mile hike with your den or family. Find two interesting things that you’ve never seen before and discuss with your den or family.
- Name two birds, two insects, and/or two other animals that live in your area. Explain how you identified them.
- Draw a map of an area near where you live using common map symbols. Show which direction is north on your map.
Takeaways for Cub Scouts
- The Cub Scout Six Essentials: what they are and how to use them.
- How the buddy system works and why we use it.
- How to hike with Scouts
- Improving Scouts’ knowledge of the world around them.
- A Scout is brave, clean.
Historical Requirements
2015 Handbook Requirements
Wolf Handbook, page 94
Wolf Den Leader Guide, page 61
- Show you are prepared to hike safely by putting together the Cub Scout Six Essentials to take along on your hike.
- Tell what the buddy system is and why we always use it in Cub Scouts.
- Describe what you should do if you get separated from your group while hiking.
- Choose the appropriate clothing to wear on your hike based on the expected weather.
- Before hiking, recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your leader. After hiking, discuss how you showed respect for wildlife.
- Go on a 1-mile hike with your den or family. Watch and record two interesting things that you’ve never seen before.
- Name two birds, two bugs, and two animals that live in your area. Explain how you identified them.
- Draw a map of an area near where you live using common map symbols. Show which direction is north on your map.
