Pacific Skyline Council
One of the six Boy Scouts of America councils that serves the San Francisco Bay area, the Pacific Skyline Council was founded in 1940 as the Stanford Area Council (#031).[1] In 1994, the Stanford Area Council merged with the San Mateo County Council (#020) to form the current council which serves youth in San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara county.[2]
Pacific Skyline Council (#031) | |||
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Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
Headquarters | Foster City, California | ||
Country | United States | ||
Founded | 1994 | ||
President | Jim Pooley | ||
Council Commissioner | Dan Callaghan | ||
Scout Executive | Brian Curtis | ||
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Website pacsky.org | |||
Organization
- Discovery District: northern/western San Mateo County, including Brisbane, Colma, Daly City, El Granada, Half Moon Bay, Millbrae, Moss Beach, Pacifica, San Bruno, and South San Francisco
- Redwood District: southern San Mateo County, including Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, Foster City, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, Woodside, and La Honda
- Stanford District: northern Santa Clara County, including Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and Mountain View[3]
Camps
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Boulder Creek Scout Reservation entrance
- Cutter Scout Reservation (located in the Santa Cruz Mountains) is a Scout camp set in a redwood grove north of Big Basin Redwoods National Park. The camp contains many activities including a pool, a lake (Lake Gamlen), and an operational C.O.P.E. course. Many council weekend events are held at the reservation including Camporees, Order of the Arrow ordeals, and fellowships.[4]
- Boulder Creek Scout Reservation is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Boulder Creek, California. The reservation is home to the council's National Youth Leadership Training program performed every summer.[5]
- Camp Oljato is a camp for Boy Scouts located at Huntington Lake in Lakeshore, CA (Fresno County) that was previously a pair of Jewish resident camps known as Camp Kelowa for Boys and Camp Singing Trail for Girls. In 1942, the camp was converted to a Boy Scout camp. The camp's property ranges in elevation from 7,000 to just under 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea level. Camp Oljato is primarily accessible by pontoon boats; these boats run on a regular schedule during the Scout camping season running from mid June to mid August.[6]
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The swimming area at Camp Oljato, about 1973.
Order of the Arrow
Ohlone Lodge #63[7] serves as the Order of the Arrow lodge for the Pacific Skyline Council. It was formed on January 1, 1995, with the merger of the Pomponio and Stanford-Oljato lodges. The lodge is named in honor of the Ohlone tribes of Native Americans. The lodge's totem is the California Sea Otter.
gollark: If you are a god, what sort of godly powers are available to you?
gollark: How much competition is there for that?
gollark: The other one kept producing `CthulhuRlyehWgahnaglFhtagnException`s, apparently.
gollark: *That* one was considered an anomaly and contained last year.
gollark: So actually no.
References
- Hook, James; Franck, Dave; Austin, Steve (1982). An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation.
- "Quick Facts". Pacific Skyline Council. Archived from the original on 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
- "Districts • Pacific Skyline Council". Pacific Skyline Council. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
- Lodge Calendar Ohlone #63. Retrieved March 23, 2019
- Nation Youth Leadership Trainning Pacific Skyline Council. Retrieved March 23, 2019
- "Camp Oljato". Pacific Skyline Council. 2014. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- http://ohlone63.org
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