1978 Boy Scout Troop 506 Colorado River Canoe Trip

I don't really remember this particular trip. But since I filmed it I must have been there. Each year during a holiday weekend in February, it has been and continues to be the tradition for Boy Scout Troop 506 (La Jolla, California) to canoe a 15 to 30 mile reach of the lower Colorado River. Some years the trip is Black Canyon-Lake Mohave. Other years it's Park Moabi-Topoc Gorge-Lake Havasu, and in the 1970s, it was usually Walter's Camp-Picacho-Fisher's Landing, a favorite of the late Sid Lubin, Scoutmaster of Troop 506 in the 1970s. I filmed this in Super 8 mm. In 1987, while projected on a screen, I videotaped it in VHS. In 2007, I dubbed the VHS tape to DVD. In 2008, I edited the shots in Windows Movie Maker. I'm getting better at editing these things. I bet you didn't even realize I edited it down from 2:30 to 1:26.

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Travel & Events

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• colorado
• river
• boy
• scouts
• canoe

[ChucklesLaMonkey]

La Jolla Methodist Church hasn't changed much has it? These videos are highly nostalgic, especially because I wasn't even alive when they were taken. Long live 506!

-Charlie Pulliam

[junkfoodguy1]

0:03 to 0:12 reminds me of the original Hawaii Five-O intro with the head-turns. Long live 506.

[jowwi54321]

hey i am currently a member of troop 506 la jolla, and we still do the colorado river trip