Having a monthly campout or Saturday hike has been very good for our pack. An active outdoor program is what many families are looking for when their son signs up for Cub Scouts.
But a Saturday event in December is more challenging attendance-wise because people are busy with so many other things preparing for the holidays.
On Saturday, our pack went on a three-mile hike on a wooded pedestrian/bicycle path in town. We are fortunate here in Arkansas in that most of the winter is really not that cold, and it’s usually not a problem to do things in the outdoors. The temperature was in the upper 20′s when we got started so this was a chillier winter hike than usual for us.
Even though we had only 9 boys in attendance, it was a very pretty morning, and everyone seemed to enjoy the hike.
