Now is a great time for your troop to each the Historic Trails Award for learning more about our countries historic trails as well as participate in a service project restoring these trails.
Scouts can also earn the 50 Miler award for going on hiking trips of longer than 50 miles. There is no better time to earn this award then the summer.
Please see details for both of these awards attached to this article:
http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34408.pdf