Eagle Scouts Cycling Across America
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A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
These are the words that make up the Scout Law.
My name is Cory White and I am an Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 165 located out of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Every year, our troop embarks on a journey to provide our scouts with life experiences and an opportunity to make a difference doing something that makes a difference. For our troop, that journey, more often than not, involves riding our bicycles. Over the past 15+ years, our troop has logged over 300,000 miles on our two-wheeled companions and we tend to organize a week+ long adventure every year. In the past, we have ridden from Pittsburg to D.C by way of the C+O Canal, Tampa Bay to Key West, numerous Key Largo-Key West Century rides, across the state of New York on the Erie Canal, San Francisco-San Diego, New York City-Fredericksburg, and even a 2000 mile loop that landed us on the front cover of Boy's Life magazine in May of 2011. Our ride this year, however, is the purpose for this page. This year, our troop has formed a cycling team, comprised solely of Eagle Scout Cyclists, aged 16-60+, and we are planning to trek across the country from San Francisco to Virginia Beach. The ride will encompass 9 states, close to 4000 miles, 56 days of riding, and over 150,000 feet of elevation. Throughout the journey, we will come in contact with Boy Scouts (we will be staying in various council Scout Camps along the way), cyclists (we've contacted numerous bike clubs and have made quite a few friends with the WarmShowers community), and people in general and our purpose for the ride can be explained with our team's mission statement: Our mission is to demonstrate how motivated young men, committed to the values of exercise and healthy living, practice the twelve points of the Boy Scout Law while challenging themselves to reach new heights.
Though we will enjoy ourselves thoroughly, this ride is not without purpose. Throughout our contacts with people across the country, we will be promoting the ideals of fitness, nutrition, overcoming adversity, and good character.There is an epidemic in our country known as obesity and we do our part to help raise awareness of that fact, specifically to the youth of today. Our idea has been met with positive reinforcement across the board. We have sponsorships with a Scouting-based Sports apparel company, and local area businesses as well as varied support from numerous individuals across the country. A journey like this is a trip of a lifetime. However, everything has a cost. From food, to lodging, to bicycle repairs and more, this trip has a hefty budget which we cannot cover on our own. Up to this point, we have done numerous fundraisers and jobs and received a wonderful amount of support. As grateful as we are for what we have, we aren't there yet.
I realize this may be a somewhat unorthodox approach, but we are an unorthodox team, and we need your help.
Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated and will not go unnoticed.
Should you wish to learn more about this ride and our riders, please visit our website: www.escaa2014.org
These are the words that make up the Scout Law.
My name is Cory White and I am an Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 165 located out of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Every year, our troop embarks on a journey to provide our scouts with life experiences and an opportunity to make a difference doing something that makes a difference. For our troop, that journey, more often than not, involves riding our bicycles. Over the past 15+ years, our troop has logged over 300,000 miles on our two-wheeled companions and we tend to organize a week+ long adventure every year. In the past, we have ridden from Pittsburg to D.C by way of the C+O Canal, Tampa Bay to Key West, numerous Key Largo-Key West Century rides, across the state of New York on the Erie Canal, San Francisco-San Diego, New York City-Fredericksburg, and even a 2000 mile loop that landed us on the front cover of Boy's Life magazine in May of 2011. Our ride this year, however, is the purpose for this page. This year, our troop has formed a cycling team, comprised solely of Eagle Scout Cyclists, aged 16-60+, and we are planning to trek across the country from San Francisco to Virginia Beach. The ride will encompass 9 states, close to 4000 miles, 56 days of riding, and over 150,000 feet of elevation. Throughout the journey, we will come in contact with Boy Scouts (we will be staying in various council Scout Camps along the way), cyclists (we've contacted numerous bike clubs and have made quite a few friends with the WarmShowers community), and people in general and our purpose for the ride can be explained with our team's mission statement: Our mission is to demonstrate how motivated young men, committed to the values of exercise and healthy living, practice the twelve points of the Boy Scout Law while challenging themselves to reach new heights.
Though we will enjoy ourselves thoroughly, this ride is not without purpose. Throughout our contacts with people across the country, we will be promoting the ideals of fitness, nutrition, overcoming adversity, and good character.There is an epidemic in our country known as obesity and we do our part to help raise awareness of that fact, specifically to the youth of today. Our idea has been met with positive reinforcement across the board. We have sponsorships with a Scouting-based Sports apparel company, and local area businesses as well as varied support from numerous individuals across the country. A journey like this is a trip of a lifetime. However, everything has a cost. From food, to lodging, to bicycle repairs and more, this trip has a hefty budget which we cannot cover on our own. Up to this point, we have done numerous fundraisers and jobs and received a wonderful amount of support. As grateful as we are for what we have, we aren't there yet.
I realize this may be a somewhat unorthodox approach, but we are an unorthodox team, and we need your help.
Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated and will not go unnoticed.
Should you wish to learn more about this ride and our riders, please visit our website: www.escaa2014.org
Organizer
Cory White
Organizer
Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA
