Poor Max Grabelski doesn't have any luck at all. What little he had runs out when local racketeers set the bungling delivery man up to take the fall for their money-laundering schemes. Sure enough, when the government agents arrive, he is found holding a package filled with loot. Not only that, but the feds think he is the one who killed a notorious gambler/con artist. Max flees and ends up being mistaken, by six boy scouts, for the veteran mountain guide who is supposed to take them into the wilderness for a weekend campout. This slapstick comedy chronicles his crazy adventures as the lifelong city dweller tries to survive in the rugged new environment after he leads the trusting troop down the wrong trail to devil's peak. Comic mayhem ensues, but in the end, the young men and their new leader learn valuable lessons about themselves.