Cub Scout Pack 564 - Lilburn, GA
Preparing young boys and girls to become responsible, participating citizens, and leaders.
We will be sending 117 people to the USS Yorktown and Patriots Point, with 86 staying overnight on the ship and 31 people participating as day trippers.
Further additions or alterations aren’t possible at this point, sorry.
Please look for email with detailed instructions and information about the trip this week or next. In the meantime, check out the draft version with some details awaiting information from Patriot’s Point.
The service project for the Outdoor Ethics Action Award, which was canceled this fall because of rain, will be held March 12 as part of the March Hiking Club hike at Vickery Creek Trail.
Please sign up on the form at the bottom of the event page by February 26 so I can get good numbers to the park.
The official results are in for the 2016 Pinewood Derby.
Please congratulate Jeremy Beack, who took first place in the Tiger Division with an average speed of 119.3 miles per hour; Isaac Inks, who topped the Cub Division with an average speed 123.3 miles per hour; and Ruby McKenny, who led the Adult and Sibling Division with an average speed of 118.6 miles per hour.
Full results are available at the results page for the 2016 race.
Congratulations to everyone who competed!
After being postponed on account of weather last weekend, the Pinewood Derby is on track to be held this weekend, Jan. 29-30, at Camp Creek Elementary School.
Although the pack has not yet submitted the necessary paperwork to confirm the dates, we’ve been told the school is available Friday and Saturday and expect to have formal confirmation today.
The schedule would remain the same as last weekend: check in Friday night with races and a min pack meeting Saturday morning.
This post will be updated once we have everything locked down. Please check back later for updates.
Update 1: If your family has a conflict with the new date, race officials can race your car or cars for you. You will just need to register on Friday or make arrangements for someone else to register for you.
I‘m happy to announce that I have scheduled the next three hiking club outings, along with the service day project canceled in the fall due to rain.
The March hiking club event will be at the Vickery Creek Trail in Roswell, where we will combine the Outdoor Ethics service project with a nice hike followed by an optional picnic lunch. I will be posting a sign up for this hike so I can get a reasonable attendance estimate for the volunteer coordinator at the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area.
The April hike will be at Arabia Mountain, where we’ll do the 2-mile Rock Trail and Forest Loop.
And in May, we’ll head over to Cobb County to hike the 1.35-mile (2 miles on your scout’s passport) Environmental Trail at the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield.
Follow the links in the text above to the event pages for each of these events, where you’ll find full details.
As always, these plans could change depending on trail conditions, weather etc.
Summer hikes will be announced soon, but are likely to be the Island Ford Trail or the Sope Creek Trail, Sweetwater Creek State Park’s Red Trail and a more challenging (but still totally doable) 3.5-mile hike of the Sawnee Mountain Preserve’s Indian Seats Trail in Forsyth County. These will be in addition to the traditional pack summertime events.
This fall, I’m planning on putting the Songbird and Woodland Trails at Stone Mountain back on our list for the September hike (while dodging Yellow Daisy!!!). We’ll make a tradition of doing the Stone Mountain walk up trail in the fall as well, but probably November this year, with October held open for now for a potential hike during our campout.
I’ll try to get those hikes published by mid April at the latest.
If you have any trails you’d like to do with the Hiking Club, please drop me a line and let me know!