Special Projects
Hidden Valley has several ongoing service project needs. We are constantly in need of trail maintenance. Please email Durand Reiber and put "HV Service" in the subject line for more information.
Hidden Valley Patch
There are 2 activities you must complete for the Hidden Valley Ar-ca-loo-ka Patch.
- A Fun Day (minimum 8 hours in one or more sessions)
OR An Overnight (in a tent or cabin). - An Outdoor Service Project.
(Service projects already completed, Day Camp or Spring Fling activities do not apply.)
If you already have a Hidden Valley Patch, you can earn a puff of smoke patch to add each time you meet the 2 requirements. There is no limit to the number of puffs you can earn. For information on service projects contact the camp manager. To order your patches contact the Reservations Coordinator.
Spring & Summer Service Projects Available
The following is a list of projects. Trail maintenance and mulching are ongoing needs. Please email Durand Reiber and put "HV Service" in the subject line for more information about current service project needs. The list changes frequently as troops help out and needs change.
- Anytime service project—no prior arrangements necessary: Mulch trails, especially on eastern side of camp. Buckets kept on south side of Evelyns' Attic; gloves in cabin.
- Pick up litter: along 15th st.; or under cedar trees on east side; or in stream beds while “creeking”. Gloves required (in cache and cabin). Take trash home with you.
- Give Arkalooka a spring cleaning, reorganize craft and kitchen supplies, dust, sweep and mop floors.
- Give the latrine a thorough cleaning, top to bottom, possibly paint after renovation.
- Clean up a series of fire rings and woodpiles (see maintenance flyer in cabin).
- “Adopt-A-Unit Site” for the year, keeping encroaching growth in check, mulch or plant/reseed bare areas, routinely clean the fire ring and organize/stock the woodpile & other site-specific tasks (Hillside, Coralberry priority).
- Burn brush at Hillside unit.
- Sign up several times to help monitor the 5 bluebird boxes from April through September (approximate 10-day schedule), and record data (book/details in cabin).
- Sign up several times over summer to help water the new tree and shrub plantings.
- Haul cut fire wood to woodpiles and stack in an organized manner (see woodpile flyer in cabin).
Special Projects for Older Girl Troops
- Cut back invasive honeysuckle shrubs or use the "popper", in a specified area, such as around edges of certain unit sites, along trails, along gravel road, along wooded edges of open areas. Haul to specified areas.
- Help remove under story shrubs and vines.
- Clear a portion of fence line...to help maintain a 2-foot swath on both sides of fence.