Scouternas natt, “Scouts’ night”, is a district-wide weekend event for older scouts (such as Adrian). Hiking, walking, some sort of competition thing.

Each participating scout group had to rustle up volunteers to make the thing happened – especially the competition elements required a lot of staff. I volunteered to help out with some evening/night activities. (Almost got roped into helping with night orienteering which would have ended at 2 o’clock at night, but managed do side-step that and only work until 23.)

Our activity (a memory challenge) could easily have been done with half the number of volunteers we had. There was plenty of standing around and waiting between the arrival of each competing scout group.

Even though I was there all evening, I never saw Adrian’s group pass through, and he never saw me, either. Then again, it was pitch black by the end of it, and if you weren’t within the same pool of lamplight, there was no chance of seeing who is who.