In a few weeks I'm thinking about playing a trick on the Scouts in my son's troop. They are biking to a local park for a weekend campout. We'll be driving the majority of their gear there since most don't have what it takes to haul it on their bikes.

Anyway, I was thinking of grabbing some of their Saturday evening desert fixin's, boxing them up to be safe from racoons (no bear here), hiding each patrol's desert ingredients in a different location withing the park, handing them a topo map with the location marked (big red X), and then tell them to go find it ... while suggesting that they can use a compass to help find their way there. Most of them don't know the park well at all.

Most of the boys think GPS's are cool (which they are), find geocaching fun (which it is), but want little to do with maps or compasses (sigh).