Scouting Adventure

Hiking
Written By Christopher Simmons

Sunday, February 25
9am – Noon

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Welcome Webelos! If you’re looking to complete your AOL Scouting Adventure requirements, this is the outing for you. Join us for a day hike on Sunday, February 25. In addition to a fun hike, you will also:

  • See and learn how Scouts in our troop provide leadership

  • Learn the four steps of Scout advancement

  • Meets Scouts from every rank level (including Eagle)

  • Learn about merit badges are and how they are earned

That’s everything you need to complete requirement 2 of AOL Scouting Adventure! What’s more, you’ll be about 80% of the way to earning your Scout rank when you join a Troop!

Very moderate elevation gain of just 555 feet

We will meet at the Montara State Beach parking lot at 9am. There will be a brief welcome and some Scout-led instruction, then we’ll hit the trail. This is a gentle, 5-mile hike designed with Webelos in mind. The trails are well developed and the overall elevation gain is quite moderate. Five miles may sound like a lot but you can do it!

We’ll be back at our starting point around 12pm. Lunch will be provided.

RSVP below or contact us with questions.


 

Notes for Troop 333 Scouts

All Scouts

Please arrive by 8:30 to help set up. Wear your Cass B shirt (if you have one), neckerchief, and name tag so Webelos can easily identify you.

10-Mile Option

Anyone who needs a 10-mile hike for their hiking merit badge can stay on for an additional loop after the Webelos event is done. Please let us know in advance.

Backpacking Merit Badge

If you arrive early to this event with your properly-packed pack and carry it on the hike you can get all of requirement 9 signed off.

50-Miler Crew

If you’re going on the 50-Mile trek this summer you must complete this hike carrying your fully-loaded pack. This is the first of our training hikes.

 
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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