This outing has been on the troop agenda for a couple of years, but never made it onto the schedule. The boys decided to include it this year and I think they are happy about the decision. The troop visited the Alliance Redwoods camp just outside of Occidental, CA and rode their zip lines!
Alliance Redwoods started out as a summer camp, but like many camps, discovered that they needed to expand to keep paying the bills. Like a number of camps in the area, they have added challenge courses to their activities. They have low ropes and high ropes courses and the thing we were interested in, zip lines! They have three on the property and they are all different. Thanks to the money raised at the Air Show, we were able to ride all three.
To make things even more fun, the troop was joined by the Webelos II patrol from Pack 134. This was a great chance for the soon to be Boyscouts to see what the next phase of their scout career was going to be like.
The group started by riding the Flying Squirrel, the longest line on the site. Then after lunch half of the troop and pack units went to the other two lines on site and then swapped places to finish off the day of aerial adventure.
A special thanks to all the parents and leaders who had to untie a snafu in the beginning of the event. The camp forgot to include a permission slip in our packet and so everyone had to fill out an electronic version and email it to the camp before we could start.
Leaders: Lots and Lots
Lessons Learned: Make sure you have all of the forms
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