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The Rest of OPERATION ON TARGET! GRAND CANYON COUNCIL, BSA VARSITY SCOUTS Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Mike Heaton Bob Church Operation On Target Coordinator Regional On Target Coordinator Grand Canyon Council, BSA Southwest Region, BSA 855 E. 8th Street 1327 E. Harvest St. Mesa, AZ 85203 Mesa, AZ 85203 [email protected] [email protected] To: Team Captains, Special Program Managers and Advisors, and Team Coaches Greetings Varsity Scouts and Scout Leaders! You are about to participate in Varsity Scouting's most elevating activity for the year 2008. If you have planned right, you are about to have a mountain top experience that you will remember forever. It will help to culminate the last years’ worth of Team activities and will guide you and your Team through the upcoming year. I commend you for your choice to participate in Operation On Target this year. There are over 70 Teams participating in this year's activity. This is the biggest year ever for Arizona On Target! Team will be on Arizona peaks from Hayden Peak in the northwest to Mount Graham in the southeast. That will cover most of the state! Every Team should have ample opportunity to send and receive signals from several peaks. Please make every effort to be at your appointed location and be ready to go at 9:00 am. For some of you, that means a hike beginning at daybreak! Last year we had some Teams trying to make contact with Teams that had left early, so plan to stay until noon. Don’t forget to finish up with a “reflection”. This is a great opportunity to contemplate on your life, and plans for the future. The following items are included in the packet: 1. The current list of peaks and teams with associated radio call signs and cell phone numbers. This list will be updated one more time on Thursday night, please download this from http://ontarget.mesavarsity.org before you leave for the activity so you know where all the teams are located. 2. A "nuts and bolts" list of how to do the Operation On Target activity 3. An Operation On Target after action report. We are keeping a copy of these reports to help in the coming years. Please fill it out and get it back to Bob or me as soon after the activity as possible. Operation On Target - A Varsity Scout Mountain Top Experience! Remember also that On Target is a Gold Passport Activity for the 2009 Rendezvous and you must fill out an After Action Report and have it turned in by 12-31-08 to qualify. 4. A list of reflection suggestions and ideas to culminate the activity 5. This year we have one letter to be used during the reflection following the signaling. This VIP letter is from Bro. Dean R. Burgess from the LDS Church General Young Men’s Presidency. He is a great leader and a true supporter of Varsity Scouting. When we were discussing this letter with him, he wished he could be here to particpate. A short bio of Pres. Burgess is included. 6. A letter to Ham Radio Operators telling them the primary and secondary frequencies for the activity is also included. Please communicate with and send this radio plan to the radio operators as soon as it is possible so they can program their radios and be ready for the activity. Don’t miss the opportunity to teach your Team about being “On Target” in their personal lives. Please do not come down from the mountaintop until you have spent time together with the Team to reflect on the ideals of Scouting. Operation On Target is the perfect opportunity to review our Duty to God and Country, our Duty to Others, and our Duty to Ourselves. Use this time to make sure the Team is On Target personally and collectively! I hope you have a safe, fun, and successful activity this weekend. Be aware of the rules of the game we are playing here. Adhere to the BSA's Wilderness Use Policy while you are in the field. You will find it on the Tour Permit you file for this activity. Get permission to cross any private lands and to climb any Lookout Towers. If you do your best you will have a wonderful time. Fill out an after action report and send it to me or bring it to huddle next time. We will try to make it worth the effort to fill it out. I hope you have bright sunshine all day long! The coward never starts, The weak die on the way, Michael D. Heaton Operation On Target Coordinator Only the Strong come through. - Vaughn J. Featherstone "An annual "On Target" day is just the perfect climax and exhibition of a year of character building, setting goals, making ethical decisions, and creating a national brotherhood. What better climax than a recognition and reaching out to fellow Scouts and topping it off with a spiritual experience. Not only do we flash our mirrors to the world saying Varsity Scout is on target, but we look into those mirrors one by one and say to ourselves, 'Am I On Target?' Boy Scouting has the Jamboree, Exploring has the Olympics, and Varsity Scouting has Operation On Target! -- A potential program to dwarf both the others. What an opportunity to provide Varsity Scouting a common bond, a universal tie nationwide." Boyd Ivie Operation On Target - A Varsity Scout Mountain Top Experience! Comment Latitude Longitude UTM ZonUTM EastinUg TM NorthingElevation ASU campus by Sun Devil Stadium 33.42801 -111.93565 12S 413018 3699129 1,495 Snow Bowl Tram stops neear this peak 35.32587 -111.67795 12S 438381.7 3909392.6 12,353 Near where SR260 tops the Rim 34.29558 -110.89560 12S 509607.6 3794935.4 7,513 South of Stoneman Lake - Hike/Drive? 34.72588 -111.55128 12S 449527.0 3842783.0 7,305 Asbestos Point in the Sierra Ancha Mountains. This peak is southwest of Aztec Pea 33.76314 -110.94958 6652 Sierra Ancha Mountains South of Young 33.81230 -110.90541 12S 508754.4 3741348.5 7,692 On Rim north of Milk Ranch Point 34.45200 -111.37849 12S 465233.4 3812339.7 8,075 Mt Baldy is on the Ft. Apache Indian Reservation 33.90619 -109.56288 12S 632865.9 3752684.2 11,400 High Point visible above the Flat Iron 33.43936 -111.44836 12S 5,024 High Point along the Matazell Devide 33.74931 -111.37304 6040 North of Oracle 32.77899 -110.96319 12S 503447.2 3626786.8 5,586 South of St. George 36.77305 -113.80802 12S 249384.2 4073374.7 7,373 North end of Mount Graham 32.75872 -110.03344 12S 590538.8 3624952.4 8,033 Blue Ridge Mountain 34.15425 -109.91484 7656 Just east of Ox Bow Hill south of Payson 34.16912 -111.32411 5233 North Peak of Four Peaks Range 33.68567 -111.32633 12S 469753.2 3727352.0 7,650 Northwest of Safford 33.02012 -109.67232 12S 624002 3654299 7,298 North of Happy Jack, west of Lake Mary Road 34.66682 -111.4152 7571 North of Globe 33.42620 -110.75763 12S 522531.7 3698563.4 4,693 On the Rim East of Milk Ranch Point 34.40895 -111.20478 12S 481179.8 3807520.1 7,758 North Phoenix Mountain - Hike 33.51463 -111.96164 12S 410691.3 3708755.1 2,703 Located east of Roosevelt Lake along US 60. 33.66064 -110.56151 6629 Northeast of Yuma 33.08452 -114.14327 11S 766654.1 3664287.5 3,787 East of Show Low 34.25174 -109.58538 12S 630255.4 3790974.1 8,436 Southeast of Benson 31.91930 -109.98621 12R 595843.9 3531939.1 6,678 South of the Rim near Christopher Creek 34.24757 -110.86097 12S 512801.8 3789615.3 7,511 Deer Springs LOT 34.30626 -110.42093 12S 553283.2 3796266.1 7,247 South of the Rim off of the Control Road 34.28747 -111.19275 12S 482260.1 3794047.3 6,378 Just north of Flagstaff 35.24032 -111.59794 12S 445596.7 3899858.0 9,297 White Mountains southeast of Eager 33.94730 -109.12175 12S 673571.2 3757901.8 10,925 Southwest of Phoenix 33.30650 -112.32083 12S 377037.3 3686044.8 3,566 Superstition Mountains 33.43758 -111.45377 12S 457820.8 3699890.5 4,539 North of Superior - Hike 33.35703 -111.08736 12S 491872.2 3690871.9 5,268 South San Francisco Peak - Hike and/or Tram 35.32310 -111.66101 12S 439919.4 3909075.0 11,966 South East of Forest Lakes - On Rim 34.30050 -110.71067 12S 526624.9 3795513.5 7,722 Mts. E of Santan Mts. 33.18565 -111.62904 12S 441360.6 3672044.6 2,447 West of Springerville - Drive 34.11147 -109.57372 12S 631546.7 3775434.0 10,130 Northeast of Safford - Drive 32.88705 -109.31508 12S 657607.9 3640024.0 6,569 Soutwest of Aquila - Drive 33.81117 -113.34687 12S 282770.0 3743695.7 5,680 Hulapai Mountains Southeaset of Kingman - Drive 35.08114 -113.90496 12S 235140.7 3885902.2 8,388 Mt. Graham Southwest of Safford - Drive 32.65011 -109.84898 12S 607949.0 3613084.2 10,019 On Rim East of Strawberry 34.43673 -111.29395 12S 472994.0 3810621.0 7,492 Northwest of Black Canyon City - Drive 34.16086 -112.26891 12S 383036.5 3780719.4 6,702 Hulapai Mountains Southeaset of Kingman - Drive 35.07503 -113.90079 12S 235501.3 3885213.2 8,415 Humbolt Look-out Tower 33.98116 -111.79799 12S 426290.0 3760354.3 5,203 North of Flagstaff - Highest AZ Peak- Long Hike 35.34643 -111.67851 12S 438346.5 3911673.1 12,630 Southeast of Mormon Lake - Drive 34.80199 -111.39015 12S 464312.5 3851154.2 8,530 Camp Wood Lookout Tower 34.83504 -112.91854 12S 324568.0 3856428.0 7,268 North of Superior - Hike 33.43259 -111.17014 12S 484184.2 3699258.5 6,054 On the Rim near Kehl Ridge and Kehl Spings 34.42214 -111.32788 On the south end of Mount Graham also known as Lady Bug Saddle 32.62205 -109.81871 8780 Madera Peak 33.34009 -110.87069 6647 Southwest of Rye - Long Hike 34.06257 -111.46154 12S 457408.9 3769189.7 7,901 South of Young - Drive 33.91005 -110.96568 12S 503172.4 3752183.1 7,153 Northeast of Show Low - Hike 34.44228 -109.79821 12S 610406.8 3811851.8 6,822 East of Strawberry - Drive 34.38814 -111.38672 12S 464450.2 3805261.5 7,101 The northeast finger on the east side of Mild Ranch Point 34.39717 -111.38798 7020 South of Jerome - Drive 34.69394 -112.12767 12S 396714.2 3839681.6 7,813 Superstition Mtns - North of Superior 33.47259 -111.13792 12S 487185.2 3703688.8 6,264 WESTPK 32.73733 -110.03844 8683.92 North of Sunflower - Short Hike 33.90500 -111.40933 12S 462156.8 3751698.1 7,726 Northwest of Mt.
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