ON THE WAY TO BLACK CANYON CANOE TRIP

PERSONALIZED TOUR OF THE HOOVER DAM BY ZACH'S UNCLE

BLACK CANYON CANOE TRIP

SO CAL VERSION OF THE KLONDIKE DERBY.....

WELL, THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VERSION OF A KLONDIKE DERBY ONLY RESEMBLED THE REAL BSA KLONDIKE DERBY IN THAT THE SCOUTS WERE COLD... MISTY DAYS, RAIN AND SNOW MIXED, YET STILL IT WAS A 'SCOUT' EXPERIENCE, AND OUR 'FAIR-WEATHER' SCOUTS HAD A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE SOME VERY UNPLEASANT WEATHER!

GOOD COMPANY

GRIFFIN, CROSSING THE RIVER GORGE, THOUSANDS OF FEET IN THE AIR...

ARCHERY

FIRE STATION

THE WINNING FIRE

Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing this past December was great. The boys had an entire day to be blacksmiths. They were free to be boys. After the intro, safety speech and demo, the boys were let free into the shop. There were two boys to a fire and they got to do everything. They stoked their own fire, heated, hammered, reheated, cut, bent and flattened their own pieces of metal. It was a wonderful experience and quite fun.

GRAND CANYON 2009

THE GANG

WEBELOS WOODS - OUR TROOP OFFERED 4 EVENTS!

The scouts spent the day sharing skills with younger Webelos. The four events: Fireman's chair (lashing), Acid river crossing (teamwork), slingshot shoot (skills), and rope ladder (skills)

went very well. Sunday morning there was an outdoor "scouts own" service that one of our guys helped with, followed by football and ultimate frisbee.

ANDY ADAMS LIFE SERVICE PROJECT

My service project started at 8am on Sunday the 9^th of August. In attendance were:

Name	Hours
Andy	9 hours 6 hours on site doing the project 3 hrs Picking up tools and organizing over phone and e-mail
Stewart	6 hrs
Kyler	6 hrs
Corey	6 hrs
Griffin	6 hrs
Oliver	6 hrs
6 hrs Matt	6 hrs
Mr. Gamble	5 hrs
Mr. Piggot	4 hrs
Mr. Adams	4 hrs
Mrs. Adams	2 hrs
Colleen	1 hr
Marilyn Taton	30 mins
Total	61.5 man hours

Most people worked from 8am to around 2pm. Marilyn was a resident of the trailer park we were working next to who had wanted the area cleaned up for quite some time and came out to help us shovel mulch for awhile. We managed to complete all of our goals which included:

• Clearing the area of debris and trash and putting it in a trailer to be hauled away
• Leveling the ground
• Fixing up the dry creek bed and extending it
• Recreating the rock line along the sidewalk and part of the street
• Laying mulch over the entire area
• Removing dead plants

Over all this took us 6 hours and 184 wheel barrows full of mulch. The tools that were borrowed from the city were returned to Ford Omor at the community center after the project.

KYLER'S SERVICE PROJECT @ POWAY PARK

Kyler's Life Service Project

What we accomplished: We built 6 benches for the City of Poway for Poway Park, and set railroad ties and spread mulch for the seating area.

The trench for the railroad ties was already dug, so what we did was after we built the benches, we placed the railroad ties and filled in next to them with dirt and then spread the wood chips brought by the rangers.

We were there from 9am to 3:30 pm, two and a half hours later than planned, total time for all of us together was 45 hours of work with a half hour lunch break around noon.

All in all the project went smoothly and I am very grateful to everyone who came and stayed much longer than expected.

There where 7 of us in total: Griffin Gamble, Matt and Andy Adams, Corey Pigott and David and Andrew Divjak.

EMERALD BAY SUMMER CAMP!