Mt. Diablo

HikingCampingBackpacking
Written By Christopher Simmons

Friday, March 22 – Sunday, March 24
Mt. Diablo State Park

This is the perfect campout for everyone!

The trip includes two-nights of backpacking trip on nearby Mt. Diablo. Younger Scouts will have a drive-in option. There will be a fun, 7.5-mile hike on Saturday (only daypacks required)

If you want to get signed off on one of your backpacking trips for Backpacking Merit Badge, we will also offer a total of 15 miles of backpacking: a 3-mile Friday hike-in, 7.5-mile (full backpack) hike on Saturday, and a 4.5-mile hike-out on Sunday. This is also a required training hike for 50-mile trekkers.

All Scouts will camp together Saturday night.

We will be offering instruction on stove use and safety and demonstrations for water purification techniques. If you have other badge or rank requirements you need to perform in the field be sure to note them when signing up.

This is a perfect opportunity to check off a ton of rank and badge requirements!

Christopher Simmons
Christopher Simmons is a Canadian-born, San Francisco–based designer, writer, design advocate and educator. He also loves hamburgers. As principal and creative director of MINE™, Simmons designs and directs brand and communication design projects for clients ranging from Facebook, Microsoft, and Simon & Schuster, to the Nature Conservancy, SFMOMA and Obama for America. His work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums, including the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art and the Museum of Craft and Design; it is also included in the permanent design archives of the Denver Art Museum. In addition to writing for design publications and blogs (including two of his own), Simmons is the author of four books—the most recent of which, Just Design, focuses on design for social change. Simmons served as president of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA from 2004–2006 and founded San Francisco Design Week, prompting then-mayor Gavin Newsom to issue an official proclamation declaring San Francisco a city where “Design Makes a Difference.” Simmons was recently named one of the “50 Most influential designers working today.”
http://www.christophersimmons.is
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