Before you even have a chance to really get to know your classmates, you are led on a dark walk to a stinky Cedar Pond, where the brave venture chest-deep into the cold, sulfuric muck. They stomp around in the soft, slimy, decomposing leaf litter and sediment, releasing bubbles of methane gas. The methane is trapped by one person (Dan Buckley, in this video) in a stopped funnel. On the count of three, Dan removes the stopper and Steve Zinder holds a flame as the methane shoots out of the funnel. Voila! Volta!