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As someone that would want this for their kids: Is there am equivalent in the United States? Perhaps through scouts, or another org?
by aerophilic 7y ago
As someone that would want this for their kids: Is there am equivalent in the United States? Perhaps through scouts, or another org?
- CriticalCathed 7y agoYears ago I did this kind of thing through the boy scouts, but I don't think it was official programming. The den leader, the scouts, and the parents all conspired to do this kind of thing. I should mention it was through the LDS church, too. The excuse was that it was training "orienteering." But really it was just fun.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 7y agoI left this in a sibling comment that we (I’m an Eagle Scout with long history of scouting) used snipe hunting as a somewhat equivalent rite of passage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt In my experience it was somewhat less dramatic than described in the article (I wasn’t left alone more than a half hour hike from camp and the few times I did it I never let the “victims” out of sight). It seems like these teens from the article are expected to put in a good few hours hike before getting back to a certain location. It was still a similarly formative and fun experience for me, especially because I got to do it with a couple other kids my age.