Quest Program Description

On Saturday June 30 you meet at the Los Angeles Area Council Office with all your gear and are transported to Log Cabin Wilderness Camp, arriving in the afternoon. You meet your crew advisor and crew members. Your crew is assigned a camp site. Dinner is prepared by the camp staff. The day ends with a campfire.

On Sunday you have a camp tour, learn about fire regulations and other camp rules, then attend Scouts Own. In the afternoon gear is issued, then there are briefings and demonstrations on stove use, cooking, mountain route finding, backcountry procedures and manners.

Monday through Friday are exciting, educational, fun-filled days. You participate in team building exercises to get your crew members closer to each other and working together. There are physical challenges like rock climbing and rappelling. Then there are learning sessions on leadership, wilderness survival, trek planning, wilderness sanitation, mountain medicine, navigation/orienteering with map and compass, search and rescue, black powder rifle bullet molding, rifle loading and firing and more. You will be very busy, learning a lot, and tired at the end of the day. And in addition you have an early morning physical mission each day and debriefings each evening. But your crew will find time and energy to enjoy the showers and hot tub.

Saturday through Tuesday are out of camp hiking and climbing. You backpack to a base camp, climbing one or more peaks on the way, then participate in ice axe and crampon training to prepare you for a climb to 12,590 foot Mount Conness via the glacier route. A fantastic experience!

There is still more to come. Wednesday is the Logger's Jam followed by High COPE: zip line, giant's ladder, cable walk, etc. Thursday brings the competition called the Mountain Octatholon with eight challenging events. Then in the afternoon you receive the Solo Quest briefing and set out for your solo night in the wilderness to contemplate your experience, your life and your ambitions for the future. Friday morning you return from Solo Quest, clean and check in issued gear, then plan and prepare the Quest Feast, cook it, savor it, then join in the final campfire. Quest is now complete.

Saturday you pack up and return home. This two week experience has been the highlight of your Scouting career. You will remember it fondly forever.