It's time to order your backpacking food. Please see your email for the order form. Order is DUE ON JUNE 14th
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Time to your backpacking food!
It's time to order your backpacking food. Please see your email for the order form. Order is DUE ON JUNE 14th
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Check out the calendar updates!
As we approach the final weeks before the "Great National Park" trip, we have filled in the calendar with many activities and meeting dates. Please look at it carefully and print a copy for your refrigerator!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Yosemite Trip Newletter
Venture Crew
Super Activity Trip 2010
Good Morning Yosemite Crew:
At Tuesday night’s meeting, the youth crew members worked on dividing the group into two backpacking crews for the trail in Yosemite. Each crew elected a crew chief for the trip as follows:
Crew A
Thomas - Crew Chief
Josh
David
Jon
Connor
Mr. Bridge
Mr. Vockley
Crew B
Ben - Crew Chief
Joe
Michael
John
Mr. Schneider
Mr. VanHosen
Itinerary Change
Great news, we switched up the trip a little bit and it looks like we are going to leave Friday (7/9) night, instead of leaving early Saturday which would have been about 4:00 am. This change will allow us to fit in a trip to the Grand Canyon and allow us to relax a little as we pick up the rental van and make sure we have all of our gear in place.
Yosemite Valley
We were able to get a trail permit from the National Park Service for the trail we wanted to backpack on which was great news. Our trail will start at White Wolf to Pate Valley trailhead at Tioga Road and come off the trail at the Glen Aulin trailhead closest to Tuolumne Meadows. We have confirmed 13 backpackers.
We have final confirmation for Curry Village as of this morning for three tent cabins.
Link: http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/upload/trailheadmap.pdf
Airfare
I am going to move up the purchased date for the flight to Las Vegas and will buy them as soon as the tickets hit the low price. It appears that we will be flying on Southwest so if you are interested in purchasing your own tickets directly from them, please let me know and I will provide you with the flight numbers and the date of purchase. We must travel on the same flight while on this trip. I am not as concerned about the return flight since we can be a little more flexibility on our return time. In watching the tickets prices, I am not expecting any price wars anytime soon. Our flight to Las Vegas will be out of BWI and is for 5:40pm. We will need to be at the airport on Friday by 4:00pm.
Equipment
We had considered purchasing some tents for loaning to the youth, but have since decided not to do that. It appears most of the crew wants to buy their own tents. We will since be using the money being allocated for tents to offset a few expenses while on this trip, thus the end benefit will be the same or even a little better for every person on the trip.
I currently have four tents for purchase directly from the crew. The cost is about $85.00. These are the Alps Mountaineering Zephyr 1. The retails is $149.99 and will are selling them at our cost.
Link: http://www.alpsmountaineering.com/ALPSMountaineeringZephyr1.htm
Here is the payment schedule so far:
$100.00 pp deposit
$200.00 next payment due March 26th
$200.00 due April 9th
$200.00 due May 1st
June 1st Balance due
We still expect the trip expense to be around $1,000.00 person. At this very moment we are running under that amount.
If you have any other questions, please let me know. It is going to a trip of a lifetime!
Super Activity Trip 2010
Good Morning Yosemite Crew:
At Tuesday night’s meeting, the youth crew members worked on dividing the group into two backpacking crews for the trail in Yosemite. Each crew elected a crew chief for the trip as follows:
Crew A
Thomas - Crew Chief
Josh
David
Jon
Connor
Mr. Bridge
Mr. Vockley
Crew B
Ben - Crew Chief
Joe
Michael
John
Mr. Schneider
Mr. VanHosen
Itinerary Change
Great news, we switched up the trip a little bit and it looks like we are going to leave Friday (7/9) night, instead of leaving early Saturday which would have been about 4:00 am. This change will allow us to fit in a trip to the Grand Canyon and allow us to relax a little as we pick up the rental van and make sure we have all of our gear in place.
Yosemite Valley
We were able to get a trail permit from the National Park Service for the trail we wanted to backpack on which was great news. Our trail will start at White Wolf to Pate Valley trailhead at Tioga Road and come off the trail at the Glen Aulin trailhead closest to Tuolumne Meadows. We have confirmed 13 backpackers.
We have final confirmation for Curry Village as of this morning for three tent cabins.
Link: http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/upload/trailheadmap.pdf
Airfare
I am going to move up the purchased date for the flight to Las Vegas and will buy them as soon as the tickets hit the low price. It appears that we will be flying on Southwest so if you are interested in purchasing your own tickets directly from them, please let me know and I will provide you with the flight numbers and the date of purchase. We must travel on the same flight while on this trip. I am not as concerned about the return flight since we can be a little more flexibility on our return time. In watching the tickets prices, I am not expecting any price wars anytime soon. Our flight to Las Vegas will be out of BWI and is for 5:40pm. We will need to be at the airport on Friday by 4:00pm.
Equipment
We had considered purchasing some tents for loaning to the youth, but have since decided not to do that. It appears most of the crew wants to buy their own tents. We will since be using the money being allocated for tents to offset a few expenses while on this trip, thus the end benefit will be the same or even a little better for every person on the trip.
I currently have four tents for purchase directly from the crew. The cost is about $85.00. These are the Alps Mountaineering Zephyr 1. The retails is $149.99 and will are selling them at our cost.
Link: http://www.alpsmountaineering.com/ALPSMountaineeringZephyr1.htm
Here is the payment schedule so far:
$100.00 pp deposit
$200.00 next payment due March 26th
$200.00 due April 9th
$200.00 due May 1st
June 1st Balance due
We still expect the trip expense to be around $1,000.00 person. At this very moment we are running under that amount.
If you have any other questions, please let me know. It is going to a trip of a lifetime!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Weekend Backpacking Trip News
Based on the very soggy weather forecast, we are going to postpone this weekend's backpacking trip. Please check back on this site for updates to see when the new date will be. If you have a date that will work well for you, please WRITE YOUR COMMENT ON THIS BLOG.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Eagle Scout Court of Honor 2-20-2010
EAGLE COURT OF HONOR ANNOUNCEMENT
Venture Crew 945
Damascus, Maryland
Venture Crew 945 is proud to announce that the following scouts have achieved Boy Scouts of America’s highest honor, Eagle Scout
Joshua Bridge
David Vockley
Thomas Wilkerson
In their honor, you are cordially invited to attend an
Eagle Scout Court of Honor on
Saturday, February 20, 2010
3:30 P.M.
Woodfield Elementary School
24200 Woodfield Rd.,
Gaithersburg, MD 20882
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Eagle Court of Honor
Venture Crew 945
Damascus, Maryland
Venture Crew 945 is proud to announce that the following scouts have achieved
Boy Scouts of America’s highest honor, Eagle Scout
Joshua Bridge
David Vockley
Thomas Wilkerson
In their honor, you are cordially invited to attend an
Eagle Scout Court of Honor on
Saturday February 20, 2010
3:30 P.M.
Woodfield Elementary School
24200 Woodfield Rd.,
Gaithersburg, MD 20882
Damascus, Maryland
Venture Crew 945 is proud to announce that the following scouts have achieved
Boy Scouts of America’s highest honor, Eagle Scout
Joshua Bridge
David Vockley
Thomas Wilkerson
In their honor, you are cordially invited to attend an
Eagle Scout Court of Honor on
Saturday February 20, 2010
3:30 P.M.
Woodfield Elementary School
24200 Woodfield Rd.,
Gaithersburg, MD 20882
Thursday, January 28, 2010
New Venture Crew Meeting Nights!
The officers of the crew are moving the crew meetings to Monday nights @ 7:30. See calendar for new meeting dates.
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