The ghost town of Real de Catorce was the location of the first cultural trip for the ASFM Scouts.

Out of a total of 14 students currently in the clan, Claudio Chapa, Gabriel Canales, Hernán Treviño, Jorge Villegas, Marcelo Torres, and Marcelo Valdés went on the expedition, along with 12th-grade Mexican Government teacher Mr. Alvarado, more commonly known as “El Profe”. The group left on November 9th for the weekend to explore the town’s culture and heritage.

On the day they arrived, the group crossed an old 2.4 km long tunnel into the town and had dinner in El Mesón de la Abundancia, a restaurant that used to be a bank during Colonial times. Later that night they went to a cemetery, which residents claim is haunted, but while on their chase, the only scares they received were caused by themselves.

On day two, they went horseback riding on the mountains surrounding the town. They travelled all the way into an abandoned mine, but only found pitch-black darkness and a small vein of silver still remaining. Once outside, they went hunting for tunas, a thorny fruit that grows from cacti, not the ocean variety.

As they arrived back to civilization, they explored the town plaza and the arena, which is still used for cultural events, marking the end of their their first official Scout trip.

The objective of this journey was to fulfill one of the Scout ideals: to culturalize oneself in order to better understand the world and the people in it.