Registration for the Trail Life weekend of Night Ops: Camp Aiken has opened. No patrol slots are currently available but you can sign up to be on the waitlist here.
The Trail Life weekend of Night Ops is September 19-20, 2025. Camping out on Saturday night is available but you must leave by noon on Sunday.
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Help Run Night Ops & Get Early Registration for Your Troop!
Early Volunteers commit to arriving early—either the day before (Thursday) or by no later than 3:00pm on Friday (preferably by noon). They help with registration, patrol check-in, final setup, and other critical event prep tasks so that Night Ops can begin smoothly on Friday night.
Help at the August Workday to earn up to 25% off your Troop's registration!
How Registration Works:
On June 9th, we’ll open the Troop RVSP form which will allow troops to specify how many patrols (max of 3 patrols) they think they can bring. Please see patrol size rules below. Patrol slots are first come, first serve; we will have a wait list.
Accepted troops will have until July 9th to register youth to fill out the patrol slots that they have reserved.
After July 9th, unfilled patrol slots will be reassigned to troops on the waiting list.
Troops will have until August 26th to finalize their roster. We will then invoice troops for the number of attendees (troops still pay by # of attendees, not by patrol) coming.
Patrols size rules:
- You must have a minimum of 4 youths to have your first patrol.
- You must have a minimum of 9 youths to have two patrols
- You must have a minimum of 17 youths to have three patrols.
- The maximum number of youths for 3 patrols is 24 youths (8 youths per patrol).
- A patrol must have a minimum of 4 youths and can not have more than 8 youths.
Waiting List: Troops who are on the waitlist will be given the opportunity to fill unused patrol slots on a first come, first serve basis.
Example: Troop GA9999 rsvps for 3 patrols; Night Ops Registration Team (NORT) confirms that space is available and assigns them 3 patrol slots. However, on July 1st, GA9999 has only confirmed 10 boys as attending, so NORT reassigns 1 patrol slot to a troop on the waitlist. GA9999 now has 2 patrol slots (maximum of 16 boys) and has until August 26th to finalize their roster.
We ask that troops respect the registration process and not attempt to fill out their roster with youth who are not committed to coming so that they don’t lose patrol slots. That is deceitful and not how we walk worthy.
We understand that this means that some troops will have to limit the number of youth attending (ie. troops with 36 boys may only be able to bring 2/3s that number) and that some troops may not meet over the summer adding to the difficulty in getting youth/adults to commit. However, we hope that, by having these rules and deadlines, it will give you the tools you need to encourage/incentivize your troop members into action.
We are not making these changes to be difficult. We want to enable as many troops to attend Night Ops as possible without severely limiting the attendance from any one troop. (We have at least 27 troops interested in attending Night Ops this year.) Based on our attendance last year, the largest troops brought ~20 youth; by limiting to 3 patrols, those troops should still be able to attend.
How much does Night Ops cost?
- Youth cost: $20 per youth
- Adult cost: $10 per youth
- Non participating youth (but registered Trailmen youth): $10 per.
All attendees MUST be registered Adults or Youth. No parents/guardians who haven’t completed the registration process for Trail Life Adult Volunteers.