Backpacking
One of the Troop's favorite beginning backpack trips and your SPL's first ever trip in Scouting. Before becoming a Regional Park, this valley near Brentwood was a potential landfill site.
What is Round Valley
The final rank earned in Scouting America
What is Eagle Scout
The troop visits this summer camp every year
What is Camp Wolfeboro
This hike has the closest trailhead to St. Bonaventure and includes a historic coal and sand mine.
What is Black Diamond
The better Serrano and current Senior Patrol Leader is this super smart, caring, kind, super scout, handsome, funny, leaderful, and very very very humble person
Who is Ben Serrano
The Troop used to use this park every year as the beginning backpack trip that is accessible from Clayton
What is Black Diamond
This is the year Scouting America allowed girls into the program
2019
Before Mr. Meyer, this adult leader was the Boys Scoutmaster
Who is Mr. Mizutani
This 10 or 20 mile Pathfinder hike follows the historic route followed by early Spanish explorers in the Bay Area and is also run each year by the OA.
What is Fages Trail
Name 3 past Senior Patrol Leaders, (bonus points if they are from 2+ years ago)
Who are Shreya, Jakob, Gavin, Akshay, Levi, Joey, Andrew, The Castle Brothers, Thomas Petty, Hari,
The Troop's East Bay 50 miler last year went through this Oakland/East Bay hills park named for its very large trees.
What is Redwood
What is the Order of the Arrow
This Scout was the most recent scout in our Troop to earn the Rank of Eagle
Who is Collin Brown
This hike near Lafayette and Martinez has been done as part of new scout overnight, LNT, and 50 miler training
What is Briones
The Senior Patrol generally consists of this many people
What is 3-5
This park, in the Mt. Diablo Foothills is adjacent to the Los Vaqueros Watershed and was the first night camp for this year's 50 miler training trip.
What is Morgan Territory
This National Scouting event is hosted every 3-4 years at Summit Bechtel Reserve and brought together 15,000 scouts in 2026
What is National Scout Jamboree
This patrol was one of the first girl patrols in our Troop
What is Blobfish or Flying Penguins
This hike in the hills near Dublin, named after the method indigenous people used to catch game, is tougher than it seems
What is Las Trampas
The Senior Patrol puts on this training twice a year, one of those times at Sugarloaf Open Space. Bonus points for naming it fully!
What is ILST, or Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops.
Crew 444 went to this park that is on an ancient volcano and has a labyrinth
What is Sibley
These 3 types of Scouting or branches are available for teens in the Scouting America Program
Scouts BSA, Venturing Scouts, Sea Scouts
DAILY DOUBLE
This Campground was closed due to a decomposing cow the day before the Troop was slated to go camping there
What is We Tah Chi
A hike in the Fremont Hills - Trailhead to a 3 day backpack to Del Valle Regional Park which offers sweeping views of the bay.
What is Mission Peak
This is the only Senior Patrol member to be in 2 patrols simultaneously
Who is Addison Szhener