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What is southeast?
The 8th point of the Scout Law.
What is cheerful?
This oath was created in 1948 to better define outdoor ethics.
What is the Outdoor Code?
A common knot used for many things, from securing bandages and packages to joining two ropes together.
What is a square knot?
A skills competition. It was our troop's first official activity.
An electronic tool that uses satellite signals to calculate its location anywhere on Earth.
What is a GPS?
This four letter acronym is a teaching or leadership method taught to youth leaders.
What is EDGE?
Native to western North America, this three-leaved vine or shrub is known for an oil called urushiol.
What is poison oak?
This knot forms a loop that will not slip. It can be tied around the waist of someone requiring rescue or used to secure guy lines through the grommets on a tent or dining fly.
What is a bowline?
Our troop anniversary is on this date. We share this anniversary with many other female Scouts BSA troops in the nation.
What is February 1?
This group of sports requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point, usually in unfamiliar terrain while moving at speed.
What is orienteering?
What is NYLT?
To keep the land healthy, this high-adventure base asks every camper to follow Leave No Trace principles and complete a three-hour conservation project.
What is Philmont Scout Ranch?
This knot will tend to slide until the knot is cinched close to the post or grommet; it is used for staking out guy lines of a tent or dining fly.
What is two half-hitches?
The members of this unit helped to found and lead our troop in its early stages.
What is Crew 176?
These markings on a map show the shape and steepness of an area's topographical features (mountains and ridges).
What are contour lines?
The belief that the best leader is someone who helps the people they are leading, rather than someone who bosses them around.
What is servant leadership?
Earning either Sustainability merit badge or this merit badge is a requirement to achieve the Eagle Scout rank.
What is Environmental Science merit badge?
This knot is used to join two ropes of different sizes.
What is a sheet bend?
Our current troop yell (ABC) was mostly composed at this campout.
What is Mount Tamalpais?
The difference between true north and magnetic north, measured in degrees.
What is declination?
Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing are all stages of this thing.
What is team development?
Native to San Mateo County, this endangered snake is widely regarded to be the most beautiful snake in the world.
What is the San Francisco garter snake?
Almost identical to a square knot, this knot is tied by weaving the running end of one rope through a bight made in the other rope. It is only differentiated from a square knot by where the working ends exit the knot.
What is a thief knot?
Our troop's first service project (it was in Fremont).
What is Tule Ponds?