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Advanced Rock Climbing Half Day (Merit badge required)
Date: Sat September 15, 2007
Time: 07:30a-01:30p
Location: Castle Rock
Contact Person: TBD/Thomas Brenner
Details: Join a “warm up” skills session for the Pinnacles trip with a half day trip to a great local climbing spot. Excellent rock climbing can be found right in our own backyard at Castle Rock State Park along our very own Skyline Boulevard. We will review rock climbing skills, take turns belaying and scaling walls, and practice a variety of other useful climbing skills. This trip is designed for scouts with previous climbing experience and who intend to go on the Pinnacles trip in late October. Come join us to learn and experience rock climbing in a beautiful local State Park.
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Yosemite Fall Trip
Date: September28-30
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Contact Person: Sue McComas/Sandy Wilbourn (swilbourn@gmail.com)
Details: 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.
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Kayak trip
Date: Sat October 6 2007
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Contact Person: TBD/Bruce Gaya
Details: With 2 person ocean Kayaks, cross Tomalas bay, explore Hog Island, then camp on a beach in the Point Reyes Elk Range practising Leave No Trace camping. All water, food, and equipment must be carried in your kayak. All waste must be packed out leaving a clean pristene beach. After a campfire and restfull night, get on the water as the morning fog lifts and return back to Palo Alto by mid-afternoon.
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Ocean Fishing Trip
Date: Sat October 13~14 2007
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Location: Half Moon Bay
Contact Person: Chuck Sholtz
Details: Join us for a day on the ocean October 14, 2007, in the vicinity of Año Nuevo, fishing for rock fish, lingcod & cabazon, and watching for whales and great white sharks.

The California Department of Fish & Game shut down the rockfish season north of Pigeon Point two months early, so we won’t be going to the Farallones, BUT there are still lots of great places to fish south of Pigeon Point. Since we are fishing for rockfish, we WILL be catching fish this year (unlike some of the salmon trips the last couple of years).

We will be teaching the fishing merit badge, and I see no reason why everyone on the trip who wants to can’t complete every requirement while on the boat (except for cooking the fish, which you can satisfy with an e-mail to me from your folks attesting that you indeed cooked your fish).

We are going in October, which is the best time for both calm water and for seeing great white sharks gorging on the local elephant seals (Año Nuevo is now the largest mainland breeding colony in the world for the northern elephant seals). The area from Año Nuevo north to Point Reyes and then out to the Farallon Islands 27 miles offshore forms a region called the "Red Triangle", and more great white shark attacks occur in this region than anywhere else in the world. The name Red Triangle is a rather gruesome one, likely originating from the blood slicks that often make the ocean run red after a shark attack. And right smack in the middle of this triangle is…? You guessed it! Año Nuevo Point.

Although we have a good chance of calm waters, I would encourage everyone to take motion sickness medication. It is cheap & easy insurance to make sure you have a good time on the water, instead of hanging over the rail. There is no shame in taking the drugs — many of the best fishermen are, believe it or not, prone to motion sickness and take meds religiously before setting out. Check out the flyer (click here), sign up, and see you on the water

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Beginning Rock Climbing at Castle Rock
Date: Sat October 13 2007
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Location: Castle Rock
Contact Person: TBD/Thomas Brenner
Details: Learn to rock climb and prepare for the upcoming Pinnacles climbing trip. This is a half day trip to Castle Rock State Park along our very own Skyline Boulevard . We will learn basic rock climbing skills, take turns belaying and scaling walls, and practice a variety of other useful climbing skills. This is an ideal trip for scouts with little or no climbing experience. Come join us to learn and experience rock climbing in a beautiful local State Park.
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Beginner Mountain Man Rendezvous
Date: Sat October 20 2007
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Location: Boulder Creek Scout Reservation
Contact Person: TBD/TBD
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Rock Climbing Overnight at Pinnacles
Date: Sat October 27 2007
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Location: Pinnacles
Contact Person: TBD/Brenner+Wilbourn
Details: Beautiful Pinnacles National Monument is the location for this year’s Troop 57 fall climbing trip. Come join us and experience rock climbing and test your newly acquired skills at an incredible outdoor setting. You’ve hiked it, now climb it!
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High Adventure Sequoia Adventure
Date: Sat November 10 2007
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Location: Sequoia National Park
Contact Person: Michael Zhao/ Bernstein
Details: Challenge yourself! This three-day trip into the southern Sierras is for strong Scouts only. It includes a five-mile hike with full packs along meandering creeks through still-green meadows to 12,000-foot granite peaks, weather permitting, laced with mines and caverns.
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Rim of the Bay hike
Date: Sat December 8 2007
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