At Trackers Skills Night, families and community members come together to practice real outdoor skills. Each evening features a hands-on skill share led by Trackers Guides—often with teens from our advanced programs stepping up to role model what they've learned.
Choose Your Trackers Guild
Skills Night is a community event sharing skills across our Four Guilds. Each month features a different focus:
Rangers Guild
Practice wilderness survival, forest craft, archery, stealth, stone and bone tools, firecraft, and other wilderness skills.
Mariners Guild
Hone skills of traversing, wayfinding, compass work, knots, casting, rigging a line, and seashore know-how.
Wilders Guild
Build skills of homesteading, woodcarving, sharpening, wild plants, botany, sewing, fiber arts, and more.
Artisans Guild
Connect with crafts like blacksmithing, ceramics, weaving, and storytelling that builds a learning community.
Community Connections
Trackers Skills Night is layered by design. It is welcoming for beginners and deep enough for serious students. Evenings often include live music and families frequently bringing seasonal or wild foods to share potluck-style. Alongside skill practice, these additional pathways are waiting to be discovered for those who are ready.
Goblin Market
Every Skills Night, the Scout Pit also becomes a Goblin Market. Kids and adults trade small handmade trinkets and found baubles. No money, no food, just fun for this imaginative barter market. Learn more about the Goblin Market →.
The Trackers Trail
Skills Night can be the starting point of the Trackers Trail—our progression of bandanas and badges that mark skill growth and development while introducing young Trackers to the path and invite those ready to go deeper into certifications.
What This Can Grow Into
Let's create a third space where Trackers Teams of 4–8 friends self-organize and meet regularly to practice skills. Organized by parents and supported by our advanced teen students, teams can train outdoors in field trips to Camp Roslyn.
Details & How-To
Trackers Skills Night is open to our community at the Scout Pit (Trackers SE Portland). You can RSVP below or just show up. Bring a labeled potluck dish if you'd like, or grab food from the carts around the corner.
Schedule
Trackers Skills Night runs every second Thursday of the month, September through April. It helps to be present for the full event, but you're welcome to drop in anytime. See the full schedule of dates →
- 5:45 PM: Arrival, Music, Connection
- 6:00 PM: Opening Circle
- 6:10 PM: Trackers Skills Sharing
- 7:20 PM: Closing Circle
- 7:30 PM: Caretaking & Cleanup
Good to Know
Youth Participants Guardians must fully supervise children under 16. Teens 16+ may attend without a guardian only with explicit consent and acknowledgement Trackers is not providing direct, continuous supervision.
Caretaking & Clean Up Let's leave our home better than we find it. At this free community event, we’re grateful to those who elp care for and clean up as stewards of our school.
Goblin Market Every Skills Night (Artisans Night), we include our Open Goblin Market—bring small handmade or found treasures & junk to trade. Learn more about the Goblin Market →
Skills Calendar
Sessions take place every second Thursday from September to Apil.
Round 1
September 10, 2026 - Rangers Focus
October 8, 2026 - Mariners Focus
November 12, 2026 - Wilders Focus
December 10, 2026 - Artisans + Goblin Market
Round 2
January 14, 2027 - Rangers Focus
February 11, 2027 - Mariners Focus
March 11, 2027 - Wilders Focus
April 8, 2027 - Artisans + Goblin Market