People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

Many students are too lazy to do boring assignments. If you were given a boring assignment without any detailed instructions, would you put in some effort or do the bare minimum? In fourth grade, this ...

The kids were skeptical. They would rather serve school detention in school than walk in the woods. But then they tried it.