Gold Rush Adventure

Event Details

Gold Rush Adventure!

**NEWS FLASH** Gold has been discovered in Boulder Creek! Join Gold Rush Adventure at Boulder Creek Scout Reservation.

Experience the “gold fever” of pioneers rushing west to find their fame and fortune. Do you have what it takes to stake and work your claim? Pan for gold, shoot like a cowboy, shoot air rifles and muzzleloading rifles, throw tomahawks, start a fire with flint & steel, make candles, rope, and bullets, lasso a steer and cut wood for your cabin!

Selected Scouts will compete in the Gold Rush Challenge!

We have a custom silk-screen with this year’s Gold Rush Adventure Logo. Bring a plain T-shirt (any size, any color – we have black and white ink) and take home a custom T-shirt!

Gold Rush Adventure is a cooperative event, in order to attend each unit must help by operating at least one station per 15 participants.

Cost: $70 per participant (Scouts BSA youth or adult)

Includes: Two nights camping, cracker barrel, a patch, and all event materials.

Adults: All adults must be registered with their troop in the position they are serving, have current YPT and AB506. Learn more here

Important Dates:

8/2 – Lottery (Waiting List) Registration Opens at 9AM
8/9 – Lottery Registration Closes at 5PM
8/12 – Lottery Results Announced
8/14 – Registration Payments Due
8/21 – Kick-off Meeting 7-9 PM
9/19 – Planning Meeting 7-9 PM
9/23 – Registration Unlimited
9/27-9/29 – Week 1
10/4-10/6 – Week 2

To Register:
Scouts – please contact your Sheriff (adult leader) to sign up.

New this year: We are using a lottery system for 2024.

No having to stress about clicking the registration button exactly when it opens (and you’re trying to get to work) and typing fast to get your unit registered!

Registration is by unit (troop/crew/ship) only; individual registrations are not allowed. Units need to have a single point-of-contact for their registration. Register anytime between Friday, August 2, at 9:00 AM and Friday, August 9, at 5:00 PM to be put on the list for the lottery.

Definitions

Unit = Troop, Crew, or Ship (Boys Troop = 1 unit, Girls Troop = 1 unit, Crew = 1 unit)
Contingent = Group of Scouts + Adults from a single unit (i.e. Boy Troop 33 OR Girl Troop 4103)
Registration Contact = Single point of contact for a unit
Linked Troops = Combination of Boy and Girl Troops (i.e. Boys Troop 33 + Girls Troop 4033)
In-Council = Units in Pacific Skyline Council
Out-of-Council = Units from other councils (i.e. SVMBC, GGAC, etc.)

Limits

Each weekend is limited to 350 people total (Scouts + Adults)
Each unit may request up to 30 spots

Policies

Only one lottery entry (up to 30 spots) per unit (Boy Troop, Girl Troop, etc.) per event weekend
- Spots cannot be shared between weekends.
- Spots may NOT be transferred to another unit (a boy troop CANNOT transfer a spot to a linked girl troop)
- Units CANNOT register for 30 boys + 30 girls + 30 crew and expect to allocate as they please
- If your troop applied to join the Combined Troop Pilot, please still submit a separate lottery request for each troop. Because of the uncertainty around the council's acceptance into the pilot program, we are treating all troops as separate units for this event.
If entering the lottery for both weekends
- Indicate weekend preference on the registration form
- Indicate in the registration form whether linked units can be separated and attend different weekends
- Only one entry per unit will be honored (only one weekend)
Linked units
- Linked units might not be awarded together (Boy Troop 33 may not get in and Girl Troop 4033 may get in)
Please be MINDFUL!
- Only register for what you know you will use
- Make sure you have Scouts committed to attend, do not speculate
- Cancellation of any spots prior to 30 days before the event (up to Aug 26 and Sept 3, respectively) will incur a 15% penalty
- Cancellation of any spots less than 30 days before the event (Aug 27 and Sept 4 or later, respectively) will not be eligible for a refund
NO Horse Trading!
- Units MUST contact the council to return any unused spots (cancellation penalty applies)
- Council will contact the next unit on the waiting list (in order) and offer any available spots
- Gold Rush organizers should not be contacted and will not handle any trades/cancellations/refunds
Out-of-council
- Out-of-council units may register and will be placed on the waitlist in order after in-council units.

Process

Units sign up for lottery
Once registration closes, the lottery will be run in multiple passes:
- First Pass
  - A unit will be picked randomly from the list and awarded up to 15 spots
  - Process is repeated until there are no more units to pick from OR capacity is reached
- Second Pass
  - A unit will be picked randomly from the list and awarded up to 5 additional spots
  - Process is repeated until there are no more units to pick from OR capacity is reached
- Additional Passes:
  - Repeat.
Units will be notified of the lottery results
- Units that win the lottery have 3 days to pay (no later than Wed Aug 14 at 5:00pm)
Units that did not win the lottery remain on the waiting list
After Wed Aug 14 at 5pm, any unpaid spots will be released to the next unit on the waiting list

Station ranking

During registration, Units must rank preferences for the stations they would like to operate.
Rank 5. (Note level of station prep and management, minimum number of adults required)
Each unit will be assigned at least 1 station per 15 attendees.
- Assay Office (M, 2 adults)
- Bank (M, 2 adults)
- Beads and Leatherworking (L, 4 adults)
- Blacksmithing (L, 4 adults)
- Bucksaw (M, 2 adults)
- Bullet casting (M, 2 adults)
- Candlemaking (M, 3 adults)
- Chuckwagon (L, 8 adults)
- Dutch Oven (M, 2 adults)
- Flint-n-Steel (S, 1 adult)
- General Store & Mercantile (L, 4 adults)
- Gold Panning (M, 2 Adults)
- Horseshoes (M, 2 Adults)
- Jail (S, 1 Adult)
- Jerky Making (S, 1 Adult)
- Pudgy Pie (M, 2 Adults)
- Rope Making (S, 1 Adult)
- Saloon (L, 3 adults)
- Steer Roping (M, 2 Adults)
- Stick Bread (M, 2 Adults)
- Tomahawk (M, 2 Adults)
- T-Shirts (S, 1 Adult or senior scout)
- Campfire Dessert (S, 1 Adult + 4 senior scouts)
- Crackerbarrel (S, 1 Adult)