Sierra
Expedition - YMCA
Adventure Guides
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Sierra
Expedition - YMCA
Adventure Guides
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The Sierra Expedition's Spring Roughout will be held at Manresa Uplands State Park. We have a great program planned with highlights as follows:
Show up Friday evening and hang out!
Kite flying, beach olympics, scavenger hunt, skits, and more!
The Paradise Circle leads a
gourmet team to provide a
Saturday night
dinner
for all the Princesses and Guides of the Nation. To
make this work, each circle has to bring food items. Here is what
needs to be brought:
Chinook:
- 300 cookies
- 10 salt shakers and 10 pepper shakers
- 2 garlic powder shakers
- 5 lbs of butter
- 30 rolls of paper towels
- Serving utensils - couple big spoons, forks, tongs
El Dorado:
- 10 seedless watermellons
- 10 bags of grapes
- 3 five pound bags of salad
- 3 large bottles of ranch dressing
Mystic:
- 30 loaves of garlic bread fro! m costc o
- 30 cans of baked beans or equiv qty in the Costco cans
- a couple of grill-worthy pots for the baked beans to be cooked in
Ponderosa:
- 8 bags of charcoal
- 4 cans fluid
- 2 lighters or matches
Shasta:
- 40 lbs of pasta
- 30 jars red sauce
- 5 large parmesan cheese
- a big pasta / stock pot and tongs
Tahoe:
- 14 cases of water small bottles
- Ketchup - 3 squeeze bottles
- Mustard - 3 squeeze bottles
Tioga:
- 20 big aluminum throw away serving tins
- 300 plastic knives and forks...that can handle tri tip
- 300 plates
- Tin foil
- Bug juice
Paradise:
- 70lbs of the finest Burgundy Pepper Marinated Tri Tip from our
favorite
local Los Gatos Meats
- 2 large grills
Zephyr:
- Chips - 20 bags
- Garbage bags
-150 hot dogs
-150 hot dog buns
Don't forget to save your receipts, as you will be
reimbursed for your food expenses. We just need you to purchase,
transport, keep cool as needed, and deliver to our chef team prior
to the Beach Olympics (2 PM) on Saturday.
There are some duties that
will require volunteers from each
circle. Most importantly is making sure that there are
enough
people helping with the Saturday meal and clean-up afterwards.
Circle officers - contact your circle and have people ready for
the following schedule:
Our traditional ceremony will be held on Saturday evening to the natural splendor of a beautiful lingering sunset. There will be Naturalist pyrotechnics, storytelling, joyful inductions, tearful graduations, raucous singing, and much much more.
Circle Navigators are reminded to bring written list of graduates (real names and Guide names) to the campfire to keep the ceremony moving without fumbling for names.
A brief ceremony will be held Sunday morning
to close out the year.
Circle Navigators must also have names of each incoming new Navigator for the brief installation ceremony on Sunday morning.
At the Ranger Station: Identify yourself as one of the YMCA Adventure Guides program and provide them with a campsite number that has been assigned to your Circle. The number of free cars per campsite may be limited, as we are allowed only two parking spots per campsite (carpools help us!). You can provide one of the overflow site numbers in this case, although that allocation may also fill up after a certain point. The rangers would like each person, and each car, to be assigned to a specific site, so you may need to indicate that you are staying at that overflow site even if you will be staying at your Circle site. If none of the free spots are available, you may have to pay for a parking pass. You will still need to identify your Circle campsite number to the ranger so that it can be displayed in the car.
Once you have entered the camp, drive on to the 20 minute parking
lot.
From the
20 minute parking find the reserved site for your Circle, THEN unload
your gear. Overnight
parking is
back up near the campground entrance.
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The allocation of campsites is Shasta: 21-23 Chinook: 31, 39, 40 Ponderosa: 59-61 Zephyr: 50-53 El Dorado: 42-45 Tioga: 46-48 Mystic: 56-58 Paradise: 62-64 Tahoe: 37, 38 Overflow sites: 20, 24, 26-29, 36, 49 Refer to the map for your Circle campsite. We have a number of sites for overflow. If you have extra people at the last minute, we will be able to accommodate them. Please notify Mike Liddle at site 60 or Jim Pyle at site 57. The area marked with an X near site 64 is the dinner site. The Saturday night ceremony will be at site 49. |
The Schedule of Events is as follows:
It is critical to reserve as many sites as possible the moment the sales process opens, currently the beginning of December of the previous year. See here for details.