Will your Scouts have time to look for and analyze animal tracks/markings in the snow? I still love doing that; maybe your kids are too old or it is done on another trip, but it can be so fun in the winters when the snow makes tracks easier to see. I incorporated stuff like that into my nature art classes, and the kids would get pretty excited about reading and learning more about the wildlife afterwards.

Sigh, I wish I could've been a Boy Scout. They had all the fun. I'm old enough now to volunteer with the Boy Scouts, but how can someone who is still learning be of any use to kids whose skills more than likely surpass mine? Then again, it could be like that episode of "Seinfeld" where Kramer was learning karate and quickly rose to the top of his dojo of 8-year olds... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />