Traditions
The things we do on purpose, every year, so the girls can count on them. Some are Y-wide. Some are pure Soaring Spirit.
The vest
Every girl gets a leather vest. Every campout adds a patch to the vest; every Compass activity adds a pin to the lanyard. By fifth grade it barely fits, and that’s the point. About vests →
Saturday campfire
Every circle performs a skit or a song at the expedition campfire. Quality is not the point. Volume is. Costumes escalate every year.
Induction by torchlight
New families are walked out to a circle of torches at their first campout and hear the Seven Aims read, one aim per dad-and-daughter pair. Then they’re in. The Seven Aims →
Guide names
Every dad and daughter picks an Adventure Guides name when they join and uses it at campfire. Nobody has ever regretted “Thunder Fox.” Several have regretted “Princess Sparkle.”
“Wahoka!”
The Adventure Guides greeting, cheer, and sign of agreement. Yelled at campfire, at the end of each aim, and whenever a dad does something ridiculous.
1 of 100 Dads
You’re one of a hundred dads whose girls are watching. At a campout, every dad looks out for every kid. Nobody is a stranger’s dad here.
Pumpkins in October
The fall campout ends with a carving table and forty jack-o’-lanterns glowing around camp. Dads run the knives. Girls run the design.
Daddy Daughter Dance
Some seasons we add a dance — one night a year, dad wears the shirt she picked. It’s on the 2026-27 schedule for February 21.
“Friends Forever”
We say it at the end of every campfire and at the end of every season. Aim 2 is where it comes from. We mean it.