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First Saturday

Your match

The Trailblazers

Map. Compass. Snacks with strategic value.

Who The Trailblazers are

The Trailblazers are the duos built for hiking + old-school navigation — the kid who has energy that needs somewhere to go and lights up when they’re the one in charge of the map.

You don’t need to know how to use a compass — session one teaches you both in the driveway before you ever see a trail. The kid navigates, you carry the snacks. Getting slightly lost is a feature; the guide tells you what to say when it happens.

Why this works — the mechanisms

  • Handing the kid the map flips the power dynamic — autonomy is rocket fuel at this age.
  • Walking side by side lowers the stakes of talking. The good conversations happen at mile two.
  • A summit, a creek, a geocache — a destination turns exercise into a quest.

Your kit — built for you two

Assembled from the catalog against your answers. Every item has a reason; nothing to research.

Assembling your kit

Pulling the right gear from the catalog…

Your first Saturday, scripted

The Field Guide — three sessions, written for the dad, not the kid.

The Backyard Bearing Course

Session 01 · ~60 min

Nobody drives anywhere for session one. You learn the compass’s three moves together — hold it flat, box the needle, follow the bearing — using the card in the kit, which assumes neither of you knows anything. Then, while the kid sets up a snack cache, you plant three waypoint flags and write three bearings on a card: a micro treasure hunt across the yard or park. They navigate; you pace-count behind. When they nail the final flag (there are snacks under it — always put snacks under it), hand over the card-writing job: now they build a course for you. Whoever’s course fools the other wins naming rights for next week’s trail.

First Real Trail

S02 · ~150m

A 2-mile navigator-led hike with a destination worth photographing.

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The Kid Plans It

S03 · ~180m

They pick the trail, plan the turns, and carry the map. You carry the snacks.

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Unlock sessions 2 & 3

One email. We send the full Field Guide as a printable PDF, plus a note the night before your first Saturday. No drip campaign nonsense.

Doesn't feel like your kid? Retake the quiz — different answers, different match.