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| Location | Time | Cost | Food/Meal | Accomodations | Activities | Notes |
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| Oakland Zoo (2017) | 7pm-10am Friday or Saturday | $65 per person | Evening snack, a.m breakfast | April-Sept option to sleep in the Zoo Meadow | Tour of the Zoo, Activity, meet an animal | Great Web of Life program, with animal guests. Option for indoor or outdoor sleeping. Snack and continental breakfast is included. No refund if choose outdoor and then it rains. |
| Marine Mammal Center | Friday 6/7pm-10am | $3,000 ($75 person) up to 40 people | Dinner, dessert, a.m breakfast | Camp outside, concrete floor | Activites, nighttime tour of the hospital, nighttime animal feeding. Hike to Rodeo Beach | |
| USS Hornet (2015, reserved 2018) | Friday 6pm, Saturday 5pm until 10am next day | $85 person | Dinner, breakfast | Sleep indoors on the ship | Tour of the ship, option for Ghost Stories | Meals are included (dinner and breakfast) and we sleep indoors. The downside could be that kids are up later, its noisy in the sleeping quarters. Great ships tour extras (e.g. flight tower, flight deck at night) |
| Chabot Science Center (2014) | 4pm-10am | $80 youth, $50 Adult | Meals NOT included. Option to buy at the Café, preorder large meals. | Sleep indoors | Workshop-Stars and Space Rocks, | Designed to meet the Astronomy Badge Requirements. Great program, expensive. No meals are included, no food may be brought inside, only purchased from cafe. |
| CA Academy of Sciences (2016) | 6pm-8am | $89 per person | p.m snack and a.m breakfast | Sleep indoors | Animal demonstrations, Rainforest Access, Planetarium Showings | Designed to meet Astronomy Adventure Pin, STEM award requirements) Boy Scout Architecture, Astronomy , Landscape Architecture, Sustainability Merit Badges). More expensive, includes snack and a breakfast. Expensive and awesome. |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | Great program, a bit pricy and long drive. | |||||
| Tall Ship, Maritime Park, SF | 7:30pm-8:00am | $825 up to 25 people, $33 additional up to 35 | Meals NOT included | Sleep on the ship | Maritime Tasks | Limited capacity. |
| USS Pampanito (2012) | $1,100 up to 25 people, $44 per person up to 48 | Meals NOT included | Sleep on the submarine | Tour of the ship, ship responsibilites | Scouts loved it, but there wasnt much sleep (close, loud quarters). | |
| Angel Island Service Camp | Rodney 415-435-9221 | |||||
| Alcatraz | Lottery for Overnights | $2,000 max 35 people. Everyone must be 9 years of age | Probably not appropriate for the Pack | |||
| Tech Museum of San Jose | ||||||
| Ft. Point | ||||||
| Childrens Discovery Museum Sausalito. |
| Campsite | Previous visits | Max number of people | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Tamarancho - Twin Cities | May 2017 | Excellent location | |
| Camp Bothin | November 2016 | Manor House - 58 Stone House - 56 | Dormitories with bunk beds, Manor House (capacity 58) and Stone House (capacity 56). The dorms also have large living areas, bathrooms and showers. Each dorm has a stocked kitchen and dining space so there is no need to bring mess kits. |
| Camp Herms | May 2016 | ||
| Briones - Homestead Valley | October 2016 | 300 | This is a primitive group campsite (max capacity 300). The camp is located in a grassland/oak woodland area on the eastern edge of the preserve. It is a 1-mile walk-in site. Vehicle drive-in access by permit only and limited to a maximum of 2 vehicles. We will either have an equipment shuttle or you will be allowed to drive your vehicle in for equipment drop off. The site has four 6' tables, 48' of bench seating, a 30'x16' shade structure on concrete, two tent pads, and pit toilets. This is a REMOTE camp with NO WATER. Oct 2016 trip cancelled due to muddy conditions at site. |
| Chabot - Lost Ridge | 100 | Today, April 17, 2018, I scouted the Lost Ridge Group Campground at Anthony Chabot Regional Park. The site is large and open with minimal tree cover over the main portions of the site. This site offers good separation from the other group sites in the immediate area, and good separation from the Family Campground that lies across a ravine from the Lost Ridge Campground. The campground has potable water (one drinking fountain and one spigot) and comes equipped with: eight large stationary picnic tables; one small movable picnic table; a large fire pit; two vault toilets; a dumpster and recycle bin for refuse handling; and a large charcoal grill. As Anne previously noted, this site holds a maximum of 100 campers and a maximum of 20 parked cars. There are two main flat areas for pitching tents –a large flat area approximately 50 yards from the center of camp area (picnic tables/fire pit/water source/grill) and another flat area immediately adjacent to the center of camp area. Slightly sloping terrain in between the main flats offers ample additional tent spaces. My impressions: Chabot generally lacks the views that are available at other venues, but this is a great site! It is certainly big enough for our Pack even if we hit the maximum 100 camper level. The campground is wooded at the edges but exposed in the middle, so we will likely need to bring a few sun shelters to shade a few picnic tables from the October sun. We will probably see a bottleneck of campers at the single water spigot waiting to wash their mess kits after meals, but at least this site has potable water – City of Oakland source, tastes fine to drink. I’m attaching photos of the remote flat tent space, the picnic table/grill area in the center of camp, and the flat tent space immediately adjacent to the center of camp. I have more photos but I’m limited in how much I can transmit in a single email. If you have other questions about this site, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Weldon Bradstreet Pack 30 Recruiter |
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| Chabot - Hawk Ridge | |||
| Del Valle - Hetch Hetchy | October 2017 | Oct 2017 trip cancelled due to weather | |
| Chabot - Bort Meadow | September 2015 | 300 | |
| Roman Oaks | April 2016 |
| Location / Trail | Previous visits | Distance | Comments |
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| Sunol Regional Wilderness - Little Yosemite | May 2017 | 2 miles | Part of Trail Trekkers program w/patch. Very busy trail. Hot, be sure to bring extra water. http://www.sfbac.org/programs/hiking |
| Mt Diablo - Rock City | |||
| Berkeley Hills - Codornices Creek | March 2016 | ||
| Pt Pinole | April 2016 | ||
| Briones - Highlander hike | October 2016 | Part of MDSC Highlanders Hikes series. www.mdscbsa.org/about/programs/highlander-program/ | |
| Huckleberry Regional Preserve - Oakland | July 2017 | 2 miles | Part of Trail Trekkers program w/patch. http://www.sfbac.org/programs/hiking |
| Rodeo Lagoon - Marin Headlands | August 2017 | 2 miles | Part of Trail Trekkers program w/patch. 1st half of hike is on trail through woods, 2nd half is on trail alongside road. After hike, there is opportunity to visit Nike Missile Site (guided tour, starts at 12:30 and 1:30 usually), and other historic army sites in area. Note that hike description published by SFBAC has wrong address for starting point. http://www.sfbac.org/programs/hiking |