Activities & Events

Swimming Merit Badge

Thanks to T206 Scoutmaster Rich Collyer for organizing, and to T4206 Scout Mom Kristin Gray, we got a Swimming Merit Badge session done- plus Trail to First Class Requirements- at the Menlo Country Club on Woodside Road. It was a dark and stormy DAY, but I got to channel my Oregonian roots, and have fun being an ASM “supervisor”.

Scenes of the Scouts- Arthur, Austin, Cinda, Quynh, Bronwyn, and with Patrol Leader Van as rescue victim and PL there just for fun (yay!) because he earning the MP already at Camp Emerald Bay.

Lots of swimming and showing floating techniques, plus rescue methods in a very comfortable pool. Van got rescue so many times.

Scouting for Food

I just wanted to give a shout out to all of the parents and scouts who helped make this year's Scouting for Food event a HUGE success!! Special thanks to Craig Cohen and Sean Mahoney, my co-coordinators, who were present for both events while I was off chasing a pack of "lanky goons," as Caleb likes to call them, around a Cross Country route.

Frank (pictured below) greeted me with a big smile and was amazed at the bounty we unloaded from just my van. Rachel and Craig took their jam packed cars (also pictured) in later in the day, as well. I arrived before the 10:00 distribution time so the volunteers got busy right away putting out our donations for pick up that morning. The volunteer coordinator, Lakesha, seemed particularly pleased that they had so many hygiene items to offer.

Sam Virsik's Eagle project

Isaiah’s Eagle Scout Project

Anthony Chabot Camping 2023

Meanwhile the Scouts are setting up a tarp. Kind of a small tarp. Turns out it’s Josh’s ground tarp. But hey, resourceful, new Scout Van needs to help set up a shelter, and a lean-to version is OK, as are several other tarpage structures. (The Shelton boys learned tarp architecture from T206 leadership Scouts back in 1993 on a Webelos overnight, where they were shown several tarp structure styles, and they still use them!!! )

2023: Beach Court of Honor

2023 : Camp Royaneh

2023: Shooting Sports

Into the main camp area, we staged the Camporee Events, with the Rifle Event back near the Lake.

The Scouts’ theme for breakfast was…. Pancakes.

2023: Point Reyes

It was the Audubon Winter Great Backyard Bird Count 2023, and we got a lot of observations in our “backyard” for the weekend.

Meeting in the Bear Valley parking lot to pack up, heading to Sky Camp, about 5 miles or so away. It was the first backpacking trip for some of the scouts, and you’d think they had been doing it all their lives.

2022: Monterey peninsula biking

2022 : Pinnacles

Fall camping at Pinnacles National Monument is a treat.

Philmont 2019

September - 2019 - Sanborn County Park

A PERFECT first outing of the Scout year, in so many ways. There was time for advancement which many of the newer scouts took advantage of. It was a great overnight.

October - 2019 - Cutter Wilderness Survival & Orienteering

The Wilderness Survival and Orienteering Outing was a huge success with many scouts in attendance. The Scouts got to work right away building their shelters for the night, with a buddy or two or next to some buddies. There was plenty of stuff out there in the woods to use! There was a lot of variety to the structures the Scouts chose to build, some of them very classic style shelters and nicely, structurally sound and some of them more "well ventilated". There was plenty of time amidst shelter building for other activities, among them playing cards, reading, and eating snacks. Several motivated Scouts used fishing line to make fishing poles and fish in “Lake” Gamlin! After dinner, the Scouts headed out with map, clue sheet, and waypoint answer sheet for the Night orienteering. Then it was time to gather around the “campfire”, made with a glowing water bottle and glow sticks from the Night-O for stories.

After breakfast the following morning, the Troop did a service project for the camp. They worked around the pool, clearing a large area of Scotch Broom, and sorted piles of broom (burnable in the rainy season) from large tree branches, which are chippable.

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