Venturing Crew 288

03/06/2024

Happy 26th, Venturing!

Happy 26th Anniversary to Venturing BSA. On this day, 26 years ago, Venturing was created by the BSA executive board after the old Exploring program was reorganized.

10/30/2022

https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2022/06/28/meet-the-national-venturing-officers-for-this-upcoming-year/?fbclid=IwAR3FhvZKd8P3nnAYH6hCt4H9IxQMWeF-gMli3kdcLg5w3578xOQ8hkxqUWY

With the support of adult volunteers and professionals, the six young people will help shape Venturing’s future, make decisions and serve as the public face for Venturing.

10/30/2022

Going atop tall things is just what Venturers do!

Venturing Crew 28 of Chatham, N.J. visited Pikes Peak Summit in Pike National Forest before continuing on their journey to Philmont Scout Ranch on their !

📸: Venture Crew 28- Chatham, NJ

10/30/2022

𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒 on November 10th at 8:30pm Eastern as the National Venturing Officers' Association hosts the first of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐎𝐀 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: Venturing Crews for Troops!

Rank advancement has always enticed Scouts to continue on their Scouting journey, but what happens after they turn eighteen? They age out and have nothing to look forward to afterwards, right?

Venturing has the solution: by allowing Scouts to stay involved 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 and even allow them to work on both Summit and Eagle.

Details on how to view the webinar are soon to come.

10/29/2022

Venturing is a co-ed youth-led program for ages 14-20 and is all about building adventures with your friends. Choose to do activities that matter to you and develop essential skills like leadership, event-planning, organization, communication, and responsibility while having a blast!

Venturing Crew 288 in La Crescenta was founded in 2014 and has had robust success and activities too numerous to mention and friendships that will last lifetimes. We are chartered by The American Legion Post 288. 2020 shut down all our in-person adventurous activities and our members moved on to college.
We are now restarting our crew and actively accepting new members to join our group.

Our next meeting is on 11/10 at 7PM to offer our new and soon-to-be drivers life-skill knowledge of car maintenance. This event is open to all aged 14 - 20. Would you like to join us on this one? Please RSVP and we’ll see you there.
https://forms.gle/MD3pfwv69XvYVKMJ6

10/26/2022

Our Annual Halloween Meeting / Party is this Thursday 10/27. Are you 13 and up? RSVP and come and visit us. We'll be carving pumpkins and playing a game or two.

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/2E5vkRJ24Ap4dWsk8

We are actively recruiting at all our events. Sign up for our mailing list and we'll keep you in the loop.

06/01/2022

We're out and about spreading the Venturing word! Looking for a crew in the North Valley of Los Angeles? Check us out! We will have many joining events on our calendar this summer. Drop in and see us!

05/05/2022

This looks so cool! Philmont training center Acoustic Music Camp for youth and adults alike!

https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2022/05/04/acoustic-music-camp-is-just-the-latest-fun-offering-at-philmont-training-center/

03/28/2022

Tyler Grey, an Eagle Scout and active Venturer, has been named the 2020-2021 National Venturing Officers' Association President.

03/06/2022

We are excited to announce and welcome the PSA's new Executive Director!

Bob Mosher comes to the PSA from REI, where he most recently coordinated the co-op’s outdoor programming, classes, events, stewardship, and grants for the state of New Mexico. He also started REI’s Outdoor School for the Philadelphia and South Jersey area, and has worked as a Sales Manager and Sales Lead with the co-op. He has volunteered and partnered with the Albuquerque Open Space Alliance (where he sat on their Board of Directors), BikeABQ, the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, Friend of Sandia Mountains, New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors, and New Mexico Wild. He also sat on the volunteer review committee reviewing applications to the New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division’s Outdoor Equity Fund. The first-of-its-kind fund was created to increase equitable access to the outdoors for all youth.

Bob first fell in love with Philmont Scout Ranch at age 17 when he visited as Crew Leader for his council contingent, and had a staff application in his hand within an hour of coming off the trail. He worked Activities (93, 97 Asst Mgr, 98 Mgr), Ring Place (99 CD), Cyphers Mine (00 CD), Roving Prospector (01), Backcountry Warehouse (02), Backcountry Manager (04-05), Cimarroncito (09 CD), Autumn Adventure (99-00) and Kanik (now Winter Adventure 98-01).

When he isn’t sharing stories about the ranch, Bob spends his free time hiking, backpacking, camping, paddling, and bicycling; he recently completed RAGBRAI, the (Des Moines) Register’s Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. He’ll be moving to Cimarron along with his dog Millie, a retired racing greyhound.