GRAND CANYON COUNCIL
MESA DISTRICT VARSITY SCOUTS
"OPERATION ON-TARGET"

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Click Here To Get An Arizona Peak List!!
Really large map of AZ Peaks (33 Megs!!) Don't start unless you have some time to kill!!!!
If you have Google Earth, just download this file, unzip it, and double-click the file to open the file in Google Earth(P.S. You can download Google Earth Free if you don't have it)
"Like History?" – Here is information from previous years
2007 Sign-up Sheet! (Updated 4-26-07)
2007 Peak Assignment Sheet! (Updated 9-11-07)
On Target 2006 Photos! (Updated 9-17-06)
WHEN:
First
(For those who love a good CHALLENGE!):
"OT
USA Border-to-Border" – The Third Saturday In July Each Year and
WHAT:
ON-TARGET
is a unique Varsity Scout activity where a Varsity Team takes a large signal
mirror to the top of a mountain that you choose and attempts to capture beams
of sunlight with your “Sun-Gun” and flash them to other Varsity teams located
on other mountains around the area. First, In July, we participate with teams
from all over the Western US to create a network of teams on mountains from the
Mexican border to the Canadian border. Then, in September, we participate with
teams from all around AZ to build a network throughout Arizona. Your team can
do either, or both.
HOW:
By
your Varsity team getting together with other teams in your district to form a
local network of mirror signal (heliograph) stations on top of a bunch of
mountains. This network will be linked
together with other district networks through-out the council to form a
statewide network in ever widening circles to illuminate the whole area with
the light of Varsity Scouting. We will
also attempt to create a ham radio and/or cell phone network to assist with
communications.
Each Team should begin now to plan their participation by taking the following steps:
1)
Mark your calendar for the date or dates they want to participate in Operation
On Target.
2)
Making and learning to use signal mirrors (See OT Activity chapter in new
Varsity Scout Guidebook)
3)
Find and recruit a HAM Radio Operator or get someone in you unit licensed. Cell
phones work too!
4)
Choose your peak! (And a second and third choice – Just pick a high spot anywhere
you like. Just be sure that you can get there and that you can see something
after you do.)
5)
Sign Up!!! (See the link on this page!)
NOTE:
MOUNTAIN ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE COORDINATED BY THE DISTRICT AND COUNCIL "ON-TARGET" COMMITTEES ON THE BASIS OF FIRST- COME, FIRST-ASSIGNED, SO GET YOUR CHOICES IN EARLY! You will be notified as soon as possible which of your three choices you have been assigned, then a week or so before the activity, each team will receive a packet with locations of other teams, radio frequencies and call letters, and phone numbers, etc, etc.
WHY:
“OPERATION
ON-TARGET” has come to symbolize our efforts in Varsity Scouting to be
ON-TARGET with our program as we try to encourage each other to seek greater
heights in our lives; to let our light and the light of SCOUTING shine forth
through our example to others and to set, work for and achieve lofty personal
and team goals.
LETS
ALL GET "ON-TARGET" THIS YEAR AND MAKE IT THE BEST AND BIGGEST AND
MOST FUN AND MOST EXCITING ACTIVITY WE HAVE ALL YEAR!!!
For Questions? Send me a message
Or... Contact the Guru of On Target, Bob Church!!!