Ok, so I am a little late with this post.   2009 saw the change of W-1A into W-1S and with it some advisorship changes.   I became the Merchandising advisor for the section.   What that entails is that the Trading Post, On-Line Trading post, Merchandise marketing and anything that is not food or program materials come under my leadership (of course I have a Conclave Vice Chief that works with me).

The conclave this year was well attended with over 450 Arrowmen from Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado and Idaho in attendance.   The conclave was held at Camp Baker (Oregon Trail Council) on the central Oregon Coast.   Food was outstanding and the fellowship was superb.   The shows was spectacular thanks to Paul Collett and crew.

Since we had a new designation, I went all out to exploit it.   Thus almost all the patches made for this year have Charter Member on them.   We stuck with what the previous advisor had done and issued 4 pocket patches.   Red Border for Participants, Blue Border for Staff, Gold Mylar for Auction Donation and Black Border for the Collector’s set.   The amount made decreases with each batch with only 120 made of the black border.

There were 4 jacket patches made this year.   The regular Charter Member Jacket Patch (150 Made) was the most common.       All of these had less than 30 made.   The Special Edition Jacket Patch (14 Made), The Patron Jacket Patch (30 Made) and the Guardian Jacket Patch (6 Made).   The special edition was by special collector’s lottery only (Yes I got one).   The Patron Jacket Patch required a $300.00 donation in cash and/or memorabilia (I got one of those too) and the Guardian required spending $1000.00 at the auction (I did not get this one).   All of the patches are pictured in this article.   I still have some of the participant, staff and auction patches available, along with the Charter Member Jacket Patch.

Next years conclave is scheduled to be held at Camp Rilea (Oregon National Guard), near the mouth of the Columbia River.

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Wauna La-Mon'Tay 442 ZS1?

Over the past several years I suspected that the Wauna La-Mon’Tay 442 S2 had been unofficially reproduced.   I was told that I was wrong that since around 3000 were made that I was imagining things.   I now have proof that the flap was faked.

At the Western Washington Trade-o-ree in March 2009 I traded for a group of patches of which the S2 was a throw in.   Neither party knew at the time that this flap was counterfeit.   In fact it was several weeks later as I was placing it into my dupe box that I noticed something odd about this flap.

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Wauna La-Mon'Tay 442 eX2008-1?

It has been awhile since I last submitted to this blog.   Life is funny that way at times.

Each year for the past several years, Wauna La-Mon’Tay has issued activity patches for their 3 major events.   2008 was not different.   Recently the lodge has tried to use a gimick to get people to attend all 3 events or at least buy the set of patches.   In 2008 the gimick was to get all three patches to form a Vigil Triangle when sewn on the back of a jacket.   Nice thought but the design did not lend itself to the fact that only one patch would actually be correctly mounted.

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259 eR1979

Well I have dwelt on Skyloo and Wauna La-Mon’Tay for awhile on their activity patch issues so I will briefly turn my focus to the lodge that was south of 442 until 1994 when 442 absorbed them.

Cole Snass Lamatai 259 issued two known activity patches during their 50 year existence. Both of these events were council wide activities sponsored by 259. The first known activity patch was issued for the 1979 Camporall and the second was issued for the 1991 Camporall. Both are clearly issued by the lodge (verified).

259 eX1991

I do not have much insight on these two events except that the attendance was as expected for a small council.

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The Portland, Oregon (Ed Harris Memorial) Trade -o- Ree has just ended.   I want to thank all of those that attended and those that helped put on this event.   We accomplished my two main goals – raise some money for the council and provide a great trading atmosphere for all of those that came.

We had some people that traveled a great distance, Dean Gross from Ohio, The Marvins from California, Bruce Lee from Wyoming and many from Washington.

Some great pieces exchanged hands either by trading or the small informal auction that was held. Bruce is going home with a Hyas Chuck 442 N2 (A hard piece in the NW and overall), Another member went home with a Hyas Chuck F2 (Hard to find, especially mint). Some choice Washington classic flaps also changed hand, and I picked up some classic Idaho flaps and some new issues from Idaho as well.

The TOR was well attended but did not reach the attendance goal I had wanted, but we came very close. Next year we will do it again with some improvements, especially now that I have a quality assistant and a very good registrar. Stay tuned for my announcement for next years TOR. Until then I hope to see many of you at the Western Washington TOR at the end of February.

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I am so happy. After many years of desire I finally had the money to nab me a Hyas Chuck Kah Sun Klatawa F2 on Ebay. I got it for cheaper than expected but this piece is in excellent condition and plugs my last patch hole in Hyas Chuck. Now I chase the neckerchiefs.

What is so special about this patch is that it was produced just before the 1960 National Jamboree and the lodge was changing it’s name from Hyas Chuck… to Skyloo so the balance of the flaps were given to the OA members going to Jamboree for trade. There was a low number produced of these flaps (200 to 300) and most of them are not located within the Oregon borders. This flap is consisdered a 8 to 9 in difficulty within the Pacific Northwest. I have not seen a dupe or one for trade in over 5 years.

I know that the first chief of Skyloo Lodge and former Hyas Chuck member wears one on his uniform and I had for years tried to get him to part with it. The one I picked up is from a long time collector in Oregon that is selling off his collection.

Well next Sunday or Monday I will report on the W1A Conclave. May all of your patch pursuits be gratifying.

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Skyloo 442 ZJ1

Jeff Ansley had previously written about a fake of the Skyloo 442 J4 that surfaced on eBay.     At the time he didn’t have an image of the fake, which he labeled the ZJ1.   Since then a scan has been obtained and added to this site.

Jeff revised his post to include the image of the ZJ1.     It also also shown here.

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As all of you are aware of, AC5 is wrapping up and from what I heard it was very successful. I had to pull out of going to Shasta-Trinity for medical and financial reasons. That was too bad because the project was within my OA section (yes, W1A not W3B as it was first reported – check the council boundaries and you will see the project was completely within Crater Lake AC.)   Only two lodges in my section had issued any patches, previously reported in this site.   253 only had one person that was signed up as of 5/31/08 and I am pretty sure that number stood pat.

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In 2006 Wauna La-Mon’Tay decided to issue a Camp Staff flap that would cover all camp staffers no matter which camp they staffed at. This also included the 2 JLT courses and the Cub Resisdent Camps. A few years before the Camp Meriwether had a staff flap of their own, S55, and they sold out very quickly.

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Well another two years have past and time again for Wauna La-Mon’Tay 442 to issue a new regular issue flap.

This flap was designed by a youth member of the lodge. This is a departure from the past several years where the lodge has gone with an adult design. The funny thing about this flap is that it reminds me of several flaps that Cahuilla 127 has issued over the last ten years.

This design will also serve as the basis for the lodge Leadership in Service flap that will be issued toward the beginning of 2009. I do not believe that the NOAC flap will include this design.

I have plenty of these for trade and I have them available on EBay.   See you again.

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