Spring Hike in the Foothills

Our Junior Navigators met up over the weekend for our first hike of the season.  

We set our maps to North...

 and hit the trail.

We made sure to check our maps regularly.

We had a great time climbing and exploring at the end of the trail.

Another great hike for the Navigators!

Geocaching Skills Meeting

This weekend we met up for a little geocaching!

Our Senior got the opportunity to learn a little about orienteering, while our Juniors huddled up for a lesson in geocaching.

We entered our coordinates for our first ever virtual cache...

and then we hit the trail.

We found it!

Rings Through Time.

Then we found the Seniors and went on an unofficial multi-cache.

Each cache contained a clue and coordinate for the next.

They raced from cache to cache.

and shared the clues...

The final cache contained our Geocaching skills buttons!

This was our first meeting with buttons!  They look awesome on our packs!

Winter Camping Day Camp 2015

Our Stargazers had a little sledding fun...

while our older Juniors and Seniors got to work building a snow pit.

Once the pit was complete they learned how to build a fire in the snow.  

They roped off the area we would be digging our snow shelter under to prevent anyone from walking over it and collapsing it.

The Navigators worked so hard digging and removing snow for hours.

Of course we took breaks for hot dogs...

and marshmallows.

It was so deep eventually, you couldn't even see the kids hard at work inside.  

The completed shelter could hold 2 people.  

Here is an amazing time lapse video of the whole process.