Welcome to the web site for the Rising Son Nation, a YMCA Adventure Guides Nation.  Adventure Guides is a program designed to bring fathers and sons together to build strong, lasting relationships. To find out more, click here.

Adventure Programs Resources and Links

YMCA Sites | O.C. Adventure Guide Programs | Adventure Guides Sites | Patch Design Worksheets | Ceremonies & Skits | Camping 
| Native American Sites

YMCA Sites

YMCA - USA

YMCA Orange County

Saddleback Valley YMCA

Orange County, California, Adventure Guides and Adventure Princesses sites

Doheny Nation (Adventure Princesses) (Capistrano Beach Cities)

Friendly Spirit Nation (Adventure Princesses) (Saddleback Valley)

Great Hunting Valley (Adventure Princesses) (Huntington Beach)

Orange Blossom Nation (Adventure Princesses) (Central Orange Coast)

Rising Son Nation (Adventure Guides) (Saddleback Valley)

Shining Spirit (Adventure Princesses) (Saddleback Valley)

Sunshine Nation (Adventure Princesses) (Laguna Niguel)

A few other good Adventure Guide Programs web sites

Aztec and Tenaya Nation (San Fernando Valley, California)

The Adventure Indian Programs Web Ring (Links to dozens of Adventure Indian program sites)

The Cherokee Tribe - Aztec Tribe, West (San Fernando) Valley

Katori Nation, Katy, Texas

Plano, Texas, YMCA Indian Nations

Alliklik Nation, Santa Clarita Valley (perhaps the best Indian Guide site on the web)

Adventure Indian Guide Programs Medallions

Event Patch Design Worksheets

Arrowhead Patch 

Circle Patch 

Triangle Patch

Rectangle Patch

Ceremonies, Skits, and Campout Resources

Meeting Ceremonies

MacScouters skits (not an Indian Guides site, but lots of good skit ideas)

More Skits from MacScouters

US Scouting Service Skits

Camping Information

American Camping Association

ParkNet - National Park Service

Reserve America - National Recreation Reservation Service

California State Parks

USDA Forest Service

Gorp - Camping Information

A few Native American web sites

Native American Information USC Native American Resource Guide Native Web Resources  Cowboy Net - Native Resources Nativeculture.com Map of California Native American tribes National Museum of the American Indian Index of Native American Resources Native Tribes of the U.S. and Canada Tribal Sites White Mountain Apache Tribe Cheyenne Sioux River Tribe Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee Poarch Band of Creek Indians Crow Tribal Council Hopi Cultural Preservation Office Hopi: The Real Thing Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs Cherokee Indian Reservation Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe Seminole Tribe of Florida The Great Sioux Nation

If you know of other good links, let us know