When you ask a scout what is special about being a scout, you´ll often get the answer: „It´s something very hard to describe, that probably only scouts fully understand.“ With over 40 million members, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are the biggest youth movement in the world, founded in 1907. There are approximately 260,000 scouts in Germany. This photoessay is the attempt to describe this „indescribable thing“ and to examine how the scouts movement still creates meaning to young people. The educational concepts of the scouts are over 100 years old and barely changed through time: Hiking, camping, wearing uniform. How does this still relate to young people who grew up with a smartphone in a digitized world? How does it shape their own identity? It´s a story not only about growing up, friendship and intimacy, but also about more general social contexts. The scouts form their own social-cultural microcosmos, and by looking at it we can learn something about society in general. About how we want to treat each other, how we want to live together.