This past weekend, Troop 14 camped out at Pinnacles National Monument. The park is near Paicines,California which is a 2.5 hour drive south of San Francisco. It was a new and fantastic trip full of new adventures for the troop, including rock climbing and cave hiking.
Best of 2011 Part 1, 2010, 2009, and 2008
I kicked off 2011 by finally pulling the trigger on something I had wanted to do for a while. I rejoined the Boy Scouts as an adult leader. Specifically, I rejoined my old troop, 14, as an assistant scoutmaster. I visited a troop while working in the [...]
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Posted 04 January 2012
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Tagged: boy scouts, California, camp fire, camp royaneh, cazedero, flag planting, memorial day, point reyes national sea shore, Presidio, San Francisco, sunset, tahoe, tamarancho, Troop 14, ukulele
Last night was Troop 14’s annual flashlight hike. We start around 4 PM and go for about 5 miles, ending around 8 PM. The point of the hike is fulfill some of the younger kid’s requirements to complete some night hiking and to learn compass/map work.
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Posted 04 December 2011
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Tagged: batteries, boy scouts, BSA, exploring, marin, military, outdoors, silhouette, sunset, Troop 14, wwII
Camp Royaneh is a magical place where boys implement the skills they have learned through the year as well as discover new ones. Over two weeks, scouts will earn new merit badges, ranks and do things they had never done before (i.e. shoot a shotgun, write a play or build a bridge with only wood [...]
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Posted 06 July 2011
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Tagged: bonds, boy scouts, Boy Scouts of America, BSA, cabin, California, campfire, camping, face, failure, flag, fog, forks, friends, individual, mental, physical, poison oak, pool, redwood, reward, Royaneh, scream, shelter, swim, swimming, team, tradition, trees, troop, Troop 14, uniform, yell
Troop 14 celebrates memorial day by attending the flag raising (subsequently half-mast) and flag planting for every tombstone in the Presidio National Cemetery in San Francisco. Other troops and cub scout packs from around the city help as a flag is placed in front of every grave for soldiers going as far back as the [...]
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Posted 30 May 2011
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Tagged: america, California, cemetery, death, flag, graves, honor, memorial day, Presidio, respect, San Francisco, soldiers, war
