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Pismo Beach — May 9 - 11

Posted by asm_group on April 29th, 2008 filed in Outings, Announcement, 2008 Spring

Let’s have some fun on a unique Central Coast beach! We’ll spend two days, leaving Friday after school and returning Sunday late afternoon. While there, we’ll camp in the dunes, have fun on the beach and practice our newly honed cooking skills! Back by popular demand: traction kiting. Horseback riding and fishing also available (not included in outing fee).

Deadline: May 2nd.

Drivers needed.

For more details, click here.

Troop 57 Foothills Park Habitat Maintenance Project

Posted by asm_group on February 21st, 2008 filed in Community Services, Announcement

Please join us in a Troop 57 volunteer work day at the Foothills Park on Sunday, 3/9.

We will assemble at Orchard Glen in Foothills Park at 9 AM, then take a short hike to the work area. Park personnel will brief us on the targeted invasive species. We will remove the targeted plants, then hike back to the assembly area by noon. The event is worth three hours of service credit.

Scouts twelve years or older and their parents may participate. Please print out the release form in this document, ask your parent to sign it and bring the signed form with you to the assembly point. To reduce traffic, please car pool with other scouts in your patrol. Wear light colored long sleeves/pants and a cap to protect yourself from poison oak and ticks. Uniforms are not required. Bring some drinking water and garden gloves.

Directions to assembly point

Foothills Park is located about 7.5 miles/20 minutes from the Scout House. The entrance is 2.7 miles west of Interstate 280 on

Page Mill Road

. At the entrance gate, if you are asked, tell the Ranger that you are volunteering with the Friends of Foothills Park. After you enter the park, stay left, drive past the lake, down the hill and take a left to get to the Orchard Glen area. CN Pow from Troop 57 will meet you at Orchard Glen.

A map of Foothills Park can be found at

http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8505

If you want to get directions from the web, use maps.google. I heard that Mapblast will show the wrong route to the park.

Adult coordinator: CN Pow W 408-879-4859, H 650-948-8677 cn_pow@yahoo.com

Scout contact: Scott Alexander H 650-328-8958 C 650-388-6751 imscotta92@yahoo.com

Fall Yosemite Trip

Posted by swilbourn on September 4th, 2007 filed in Outings, Announcement, 2007 Fall

Yosemite is glorious in the fall with the meadows starting to change colors and the days becoming cooler. We will have our fall Yosemite trip on the weekend of September 30th this year, and as usual, we will be going to Porcupine Flats campground up near Toulumne Meadows with the troop leadership working with each of the patrols to choose a 5-10 mile hike in the Yosemite Sierra. We will clean up campgrounds as a conservation project on the Sunday before heading back for Palo Alto.

This is the trip for everybody in the troop to come together and establish the patrol structure as well as get your camping gear ready for action. It’s a combination of introduction for the new scouts, great hiking, and leadership for the boys who have been in the troop for a while. If there is one trip that you want to have on your fall calendar, this is it.