Its a new Pathfinder Year, and although little can top a trip to Wyoming with nearly 60,000 other Pathfinders, we have plenty of activities, outreach, service, and other programs scheduled for this year.
Our activity theme this year focuses on our primary local river, the Colorado River. As a club, we will be working on the Rivers and Streams, Waterfalls, Dams and Levees, and Bridges honors, in addition to our IA classwork, camping, hiking, kayaking, community service and all the other things we “normally” do. We encourage you to get a head start learning about our local river ecosystems and the way we as people interact with them, by checking out the honor helps pages.
We will kick off September volunteering for the Lake Travis Cleanup (an annual event for the club). This year marks the 30th year of the lake cleanup, and the SAILs have had the honor of participating for almost half of those. We used to join one of the dive boats and clean up odd coves they would take us to, but we now focus on shoreline cleaning. Keeping our local parks and waterways clean is an important task and responsibility.
Later in September we will have our club overnight, which, weather permitting, will be paired with some time on Lady Bird Lake, kayaking or canoeing up to see the Tom Miller Dam and Red Bud Isle. Our October club campout will be a time to practice our field rescue and outdoor first aid skills, try casting some animal tracks,, and enjoy a weekend on the banks of the Colorado River.
Lots more to come, so welcome back to the returning SAILs, and welcome aboard to our new members this year!
(Bonus to the first Pathfinder who can identify where the picture above was taken)
Our activity theme this year focuses on our primary local river, the Colorado River. As a club, we will be working on the Rivers and Streams, Waterfalls, Dams and Levees, and Bridges honors, in addition to our IA classwork, camping, hiking, kayaking, community service and all the other things we “normally” do. We encourage you to get a head start learning about our local river ecosystems and the way we as people interact with them, by checking out the honor helps pages.
We will kick off September volunteering for the Lake Travis Cleanup (an annual event for the club). This year marks the 30th year of the lake cleanup, and the SAILs have had the honor of participating for almost half of those. We used to join one of the dive boats and clean up odd coves they would take us to, but we now focus on shoreline cleaning. Keeping our local parks and waterways clean is an important task and responsibility.
Later in September we will have our club overnight, which, weather permitting, will be paired with some time on Lady Bird Lake, kayaking or canoeing up to see the Tom Miller Dam and Red Bud Isle. Our October club campout will be a time to practice our field rescue and outdoor first aid skills, try casting some animal tracks,, and enjoy a weekend on the banks of the Colorado River.
Lots more to come, so welcome back to the returning SAILs, and welcome aboard to our new members this year!
(Bonus to the first Pathfinder who can identify where the picture above was taken)
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