Pinewood Derby - Feb 10
Cubs, Start your engines! Our annual Pinewood Derby is on Friday, February 10.
Timeline:
- 5:00 pm - Track and event set up begins.
- 6:00 pm - Scouts/parents arrive for car check-in.
- 6:45 pm - Flag Ceremony and racing start.
Cubmaster Robert will be the M.C for the evening which will include:
- A Snack Bar
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Trophies (Overall)
- 1st and 2nd place medals within a rank
- Participation Ribbons
Webelos Dens Hike Flag Hill
Our two Webelos dens had an outing today to hike Flag Hill in Sunol-Ohlone Regional Park. This is a steep hill, so it’s recommended for older Cub Scouts. We had great weather and dry ground for our hike. We started in the valley floor and made it up the 1.6 mile hike in just 51 minutes! At the top we took a break for lunch and great company. We took gentler trails on the way down.
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- Group Shot
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- Trail Head
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- Heading Up Flag Hill
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- Yes, that's a Hawk
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- Steep Hills
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- Heal the Hill
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- Great Views
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- We Made It!
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- Victory
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- The World is Mine
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- Long Way Down
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- Lunch at the Top
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- Greetings from Flag Hill
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- King of the World Pose
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- Great Views
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- Top Dog
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- Scouts at the Top
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- "Wildlife" on the Trail
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- Cows Blocking the Trail
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- High Valley Camp
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- High Valley Camp
January Pack Meeting Recap
We started 2012 off on a great foot with the Pack meeting held tonight. We have our new 2012 Pack T-Shirts that are given to all Scouts. We also saw some great Den awards including a Bobcat award, several beads, and some Webelos Activity Pins. Our Tiger den is preparing to visit a Fire Station so they performed a skit with the Scouts dressed up as firemen (or, fire victims).
For our game we had a whole box of styrofoam peanuts. The Scouts and siblings were split into four teams to see who could fill their bucket the highest - it’s not as easy as it looks! Afterwards, the Scouts pitched in to clean up, too!
Box of Peanuts
Four teams ready to go!
Carry as many as you can!
Fill the bucket carefully!
Everyone helps clean up!
Snowball Fight an Annual Highlight for December Pack Meeting
Pack 163’s annual snowball fight was a success again this year. The tradition pits the kids vs. adults in a “snowball” (wadded newspaper) fight.
Our Cubmaster Robert Cook read the original set of rules, which included rules that the kids could only throw one snowball while the adults could throw as many as they wanted. Also, the kids would have to throw standing backwards and between their legs. Understandably, our Scouts wanted no part of these “fair rules” and instead anyone could throw anything anytime. Good times were had by all.
Niles Festival of Lights Parade Info
I have finally received the information for the Niles Holiday Festival of Lights Parade. The parade will be on Friday November 25th starting at 6:30pm and will last about an hour. We are unit number 49 and will stage/line up in the Sullivan Underpass (please see map below) I’d like everyone to meet at 6:00pm in this lot. Parking is usually challenging during this event, so please plan on extra time to park far away and walk to the lot.
This is a great community event and is always lots of fun. The theme is Festival of Lights, so lets see if we can go with that theme and do it Boy Scout Style. If you have a battery powered camping light (the ones you carry), or the small headlights you wear on your head, or small decorative lights you can wear or carry, let’s bring those. We will have our banner and we will need two scouts to carry and two more to carry our flags. It is always cold during this event, so make sure you bundle up.Unfortunately if it is cold, our scout uniforms won’t be seen.
Please review the attachments. Participants in the parade are no longer allowed to pass out throw items into the crowd. What a bummer, that was one of the fun parts.
The staging information on where to line up is included along with a map. Please let me know if you are planning in joining in the fun.
This is a great family event, so bring out the whole family to walk. Wagons work great for the younger siblings, if they get tired they can hop right in.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
See you on Friday,
Ruth Dalton
Pack 163 at Niles Parade 2011