Unlike other programs which offer a week-long, structured program during the summer at a local camp property, Trail Life encourages each unit to be highly creative in planning an adventure of their own.
Some key benefits include:
- provides flexibility to adults in scheduling time away from work
- enables the youth to do something new and unique each summer
- challenges the youth to use their recently learned skills in the field
- encourages setting a long term goal to raise the funding for the adventure program
- avoids the pay for a patch mentality of using summer camp as (merely) an extended classroom program
- opens up opportunities for extended service projects or missions-type trips
- maximizes fun based on local parks, camps and historical sites
- ultimately tailor-able to the resources of the unit
Trail Life Troop 113 