Pikes_Peak_Council Scouting_in_Colorado

1 pikes peak council

1.1 camp alexander
1.2 districts
1.3 scout executives
1.4 ha-kin-skay-a-ki lodge
1.5 international exchanges

pikes peak council

the pikes peak council (60) of boy scouts of america, headquartered in colorado springs, colorado. named after famous peak in council territory, upon america beautiful written, pikes peak council provides scouting youth in east-central colorado, including park, teller, el paso, elbert, lincoln, kit carson , cheyenne counties.

as longs peak council, there officially no apostrophe in name, due ruling mountain board on geographic names.

on board space shuttle challenger when disintegrated in 1986 american flag sponsored troop 514 of monument, colorado. when challenger wreckage retrieved bottom of atlantic ocean, flag found, sealed in plastic bag, intact , unscathed.

camp alexander

the council camp, camp alexander, located in eleven mile canyon in pike national forest approximately 45 miles (72 km) west of colorado springs, , 2 miles (3 km) south of lake george, in park county, donated in 1946 j. don alexander of alexander film company. there series of burma shave-style signs on main road camp, each sign having 1 of points of scout law. camp alexander between 8200 , 8,600 feet (2,600 m) elevation. camp area consists of hills, low mountains, , valleys covered mix of ponderosa pine forests, high-altitude grasslands, , wetland vegetation along lake , stream. in 2012 springer wildfire, camp evacuated, , parts of camp used firefighters staging , defensible spaces.

districts

frontier district (serves colorado springs school district 11 , falcon school district 49)
high plains district (serves school districts of peyton, calhan, ramah, ellicott, miami-yoder, edison, hanover, , communities in elbert, lincoln, kit carson, , kiowa counties, pointing east kansas border including communities of limon, burlington , cheyenne wells)
jamboree district (serves academy school district 20 , lewis-palmer school district 38)
ute district (serves harrison school district 2, cheyenne mountain school district 12, fountain-fort carson school district 8 , widefield school district 3)

in july 2005, pikes peak council moved four-decade home downtown temporary location in northeast colorado springs until council s new headquarters @ intersection of i-25 , fillmore street finished in july 2008, account demographic , geographic shift of colorado springs. vacated original building became home of sario, lions club project.

scout executives

ray ryerson 1940 - 1973
loren swenson 1973 - 1993
james winkler 1993 - 1995
ross harrop 1995 - 2004
ian lilien 2004 - 2008
dustin shaver 2008– 2012
kent downing 2012–2016
jim machamer 2017-present

ha-kin-skay-a-ki lodge

ha-kin-skay-a-ki lodge #387, chartered in 1948, serves 743 arrowmen of 2004. lodge totem rocky mountain bighorn sheep, , name said translate great horned goat of mountain not specify language or dialect. until 1953, lodge known pike s peak lodge. in response 2012 waldo canyon fire affected colorado springs, lodge released fundraising lodge flap featuring bighorn sheep looking on burning area.

international exchanges

pikes peak council scouts have international relationship scouts in kyrgyzstan.