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	<!-- startprint --> <span class=default><p align="center"><strong>Below are some images from the continuing adventure...</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><strong><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/IMG_1898.JPG"></strong> <p align="center">Front row seats to Felix Hernandez's <strong>perfect game</strong> (Seattle Mariners vs. Tampa Bay Rays)</p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><strong><img title="" alt="" width="225" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/IMG_1845.JPG"></strong> <p align="center">On the summit of Gilbert Peak, Goat Rocks Wilderness, Yakima, Washington, looking at last year's summit: Mt. Adams</p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><strong><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="240" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/NOAC%202012%20-%20Thumbs%20up%20-%20Russell%20Conard%20photo%202.jpg"></strong> <p align="center">WIth fellow Eagle Scouts and new BSA CEO Wayne Brock at the 2012 National Order of the Arrow Conference</p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><strong><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/DSCN1043.JPG"></strong> <p align="center">Feeling mighty small outside Vail, Colorado</p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><strong><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/IMG_1522.JPG"></strong> <p align="center">Visiting with Alcatraz Gang POW and Texas Congressman Sam Johnson the day after flying with POW Bob Shumaker.</p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/IMG_1488.JPG"> <p align="center">Warrenton, VA: Flying with 8-year POW Bob Shumaker of The Alcatraz Gang (2013).  We brought his fellow "Alcatraz" POW Congressman Johnson along for the ride.</p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="217" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/Alvin%20Townley%20and%20Rob%20Woodall%206-2012.jpg"> <p align="center">With friend and freshman Congressman Rob Woodall in Washington, DC.  </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="225" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/IMG_1122.JPG"> <p align="center">Surfing at Scripp's Beach in La Lolla, California, with pro surfer Torey Meister.  Water temp: 58 degrees!</p> <p align="center"><strong></strong> </p> <p align="center"><strong><img title="" alt="" width="224" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/IMG_0433.jpg"></strong> <p align="center">Celebrating Altanta at Twelve - Journalist Henry Grady, slugger Hank Aaron, and artist Steve Penley</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="224" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/IMG_0419.jpg"> <p align="center">Present from Dad: New Legacy of Honor/Spirit of Adventure Box Set</p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="225" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/thumbnails/031.JPG"> <p align="center">Takeoff in Colorado Spring, CO</p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="200" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/IMGP2260%20c.jpg"> <p align="center">The Great Wall of China</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="200" src="uploaded_graphics/IMGP2195%20c.jpg"> <p align="center">Matt Dalio, founder of China Care, Beijing, CHINA</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/IMG_1394.jpg"> <p align="center">With the Swiss ambassador at the home of General Vo Nguyen Giap, Hanoi, Vietnam</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="223" src="uploaded_graphics/IMG_6657%20ed.jpg"> <p align="center">With Thao Griffiths (VVAF) at a children's home in Son Tay, Vietnam</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="199" src="uploaded_graphics/IMGP2065.JPG"> <p align="center">In Langabu, SOUTH SUDAN, helping launch Aqua-Africa's latest project</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="250" src="uploaded_graphics/IMG_6640%20p.jpg"> <p align="center">With Buey Tut (see Spirit of Adventure) outside Juba, SOUTH SUDAN</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="199" src="uploaded_graphics/BP%206%20c.jpg"> <p align="center">Final resting place of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="199" src="uploaded_graphics/BP%204%20c.jpg"> <p align="center">With Peter Mikita of Scouts Kenya at Lord Robert Baden-Powell's gravesite in Nyeri, KENYA</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="205" src="uploaded_graphics/Summit%20for%20Luke%20compress.jpg"> <p align="center">Summiting Mt. Adams in the Cascades on the 2011 Climb for Kids.  Mt. Rainer in the background.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="169" src="uploaded_graphics/Mt%20Philips%20Summit.jpg"> <p align="center">Summit of Mt. Philips</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="169" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20w%20Rangers%20Cate%20and%20David.JPG"> <p align="center">Top-noch Rangers</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="169" src="uploaded_graphics/H1160005.JPG"> <p align="center">Philmont Scout Ranch: With our Rocky Mountain Council crew at Carson Meadows </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="200" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/Louie%20Zamperini%20and%20Alvin%20Townley%20-%202011.jpg"> <p align="center">Honorary Eagle Scout Louie Zamperini (subject of Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken")</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="200" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20Blue%20Angel%20Eagles%20closeup.jpg"> <p align="center">Eagle Scouts in the Blues</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="216" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20and%20Blues%20crop.jpg"> <p align="center">With the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels, Pensacola, Florida</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="199" src="uploaded_graphics/DSC_0179.JPG"> <p align="center">Announcing "Scouting for State Parks" in South Carolina with the governor</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Mt%20Baker%20Summit%20Pic.jpg"> <p align="center">Freezing and whited-out on the summit of Mt. Baker - "for the kids at Luke Camp"</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Mt%20Baker%20camp%20lineup.jpg"> <p align="center">Warmer times - nearing base camp on Mt. Baker, Northern Cascades, Washington State</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/2010%20Jamboree%20friends.jpg"> <p align="center">With good friends and two OA chiefs at the 2010 National Jamboree</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="201" src="uploaded_graphics/2010%20Jamboree%20Western%20LA%20Eagle%20Court%20of%20Honor%202.jpg"> <p align="center">With newly-minted California Eagle Scouts at the 2010 BSA National Jamboree</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="200" src="uploaded_graphics/DSC_3413%20-%20Copy.JPG"> <p align="center">Adventure Base 100, Atlanta, GA</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="200" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20and%20Blue%20Angel%20team%204-13-2010%20-%20Copy.JPG"> <p align="center">With the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, Pensacola, FL</p> <p align="center"><em>(Eagle Scout Frank Weisser is second from right, AT at center)</em></p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Ed%20Hine%20preflight%20IKE.JPG"> <p align="center">With LT Ed Hine, VFA-103, about to fly a mission over Afghanistan</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="200" src="uploaded_graphics/Approaching%20IKE%20on%20helo.JPG"> <p align="center">Approaching the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower on an SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter</p> <p align="center">North Arabian Sea, off the coast of Pakistan</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="169" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Ed%20Hine%20on%20IKE.JPG"> <p align="center">On the flight deck - nobody looks good in a "cranial"</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="193" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20COD%20USS%20Harry%20Truman%20-%20Copy.jpg"> <p align="center">Me landing in a C-2 aboard USS Harry S. Truman, Atlantic Ocean</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="282" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20and%20T%20Bentley%202010%20Blairsville.jpg"> <p align="center">With Scouts in the North Georgia Mountains, Winter 2010</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Blue%20Angels.jpg"> <p align="center">U.S. Navy Blue Angel lead solo pilot and Eagle Scout Frank Weisser, Pensacola, Florida, Fall 2009</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="225" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Burton%20Roberts%20Florida%20Sea%20Base.jpg"> <p align="center">After scuba diving with Survivor contestant Burton Roberts at the Florida Sea Base, Fall 2009</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Shuksan.JPG"> <p align="center">The summit of Mt. Shuksan, Northern Cascade Range, Washington - Labor Day 2009</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="225" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Philmont.jpg"> <p align="center">Bob Longoria, rocket scientist and unbeatable fisherman, Philmont Scout Ranch, Summer 2009</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/IMG_00431.jpg"> <p align="center">Surfing outside San Diego with Navy SEAL and Eagle Scout Tom Campbell (center), June 2009</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Savannah%201-2009.JPG"> <p align="center">Talking with new Eagle Scouts in Savannah, Georgia, Winter 2009</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="200" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20with%20Eagle%20Scouts%20at%20Bert%20Adams.jpg"> <p align="center">The Eagle Reserve - young alumni volunteering one weekend a year for Scouting</p> <p align="center">(<a href="http://www.EagleReserve.org">www.EagleReserve.org</a>) </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" /> <v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75"><img title="" alt="" width="350" height="194" src="uploaded_graphics/Bert%20Adams%20Troop%20100%20croped.jpg">  <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas> <v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> <o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype> <v:shape style="width: 153.75pt; height: 102pt" id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\cc\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.jpg" o:title="Alvin Townley hawaii speech comp"></v:imagedata></v:shape></span> <p align="center">The Eagle Reserve taking inner-city Scouts camping at Bert Adams Scout Reservation, Fall 2008</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="211" src="uploaded_graphics/AZ%20fbook.JPG"> <p align="center">Mt. Wrightson, Arizona, Fall 2008</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="350" height="263" src="uploaded_graphics/CIMG1427.JPG"><br> <br>Eagle Scouts aboard the aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ.<br> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /> <st1:place>Eastern Pacific Ocean</st1:place>, Summer 2008 <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"></p> <p align="center"> <img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/CIMG1392.JPG"> <p align="center">A fully-loaded F-18 Hornet prepares to launch from USS NIMITZ</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="350" height="263" src="uploaded_graphics/CIMG1291.JPG"><br> <br>With Eagle Scout and F-18 Hornet pilot LT Lee Amerine, about to embark on a<br> cruise aboard the aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ. <st1:state> <st1:place>Hawaii</st1:place></st1:state>, Summer 2008 <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><br> <br><br> <br><img title="" alt="" width="350" height="263" src="uploaded_graphics/DSCN6573.JPG"><br> <br>Decompressing with marine biologist Eric Treml<br> on the <st1:place>Great Barrier Reef</st1:place>.  <st1:country-region> <st1:place>Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, April 2008 <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="350" height="263" src="uploaded_graphics/CIMG1263.JPG"><br> <br>With retired British Scouters on <st1:place> <st1:city>Brownsea Island</st1:city>, <st1:country-region>England</st1:country-region></st1:place>,<br> where Baden-Powell launched the Scouting Movement in 1907, April 2008 <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> <img title="" alt="" width="300" height="200" src="uploaded_graphics/DSC_0013.JPG"> <p align="center">With Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca and Scout volunteers, Honolulu, Hawaii</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="199" src="uploaded_graphics/IMGP0143.JPG"><br> <br>  Eagle Scout Josh McNary on the walls of Red Rock Canyon, Nevada <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img alt="" align="middle" src="uploaded_graphics/CIMG1094.JPG"> <br> <br>With Josh McNary and a National Outdoor Leadership School (N.O.L.S.)<br> rock climbing expedition, Red Rocks, Nevada, March 2008 <br> <br><br> <br><img alt="" align="middle" src="uploaded_graphics/CIMG1143.JPG"> <br> <br>With Scouts and leaders in Hawaii Volcanoes<br> National Park, March 2008 <br> <br><br> <br><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Waikiki%20am.JPG"> <br> <br>Surfing under the Moon, 6am, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2008 <br> <br><br> <br><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="195" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Waikiki.JPG"> <br> <br>With Eagle Scout Ke'ao O'Sullivan after a morning of surfing,<br> Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, March 2008 <br> <br><br> <br><img alt="" align="middle" src="uploaded_graphics/CIMG1154.JPG"> <br> <br>With Eagle Scout Steve Seifried, Ph.D., hiking a<br> volcanic lake near Kilauea on the Big Island, March 2008 <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="196" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/WRAMC%2010.jpg"><br> <br>Alvin with wounded veterans, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC<br> <br> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="350" height="233" src="uploaded_graphics/Amherst%20MA%202008.jpg"> <p align="center">AT with new Eagle Scouts, <st1:place> <st1:city>Amherst</st1:city>, <st1:state>Massachusetts</st1:state></st1:place>, February 2008 <br> <br><br> <br><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="203" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Peace%20Corps%20Africa.jpg"> <br> <br>Alvin Townley with Eagle Scouts <br> who serve in the Peace Corps, Benin, West Africa<br> <br><br> <br><img border="0" alt="" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20with%20Soutisme%20Beninois%20card.JPG"><br> <br>Alvin Townley with African Boy Scouts<br> and the President of Scoutisme Beninois <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><img title="" alt="" width="200" height="300" src="uploaded_graphics/Joe%20Pack%20compressed.jpg"><br> <br>Olympian Joe Pack flips above Park City, Utah <p align="center"><br> <br><img border="0" alt="" src="uploaded_graphics/USMA%20West%20Point%209-2007.JPG"><br> <span><br> With Eagle Scout cadets at the <br> U.S. Military Academy - West Point, September 2007</span><br> <br><br> <br><img border="0" alt="" src="uploaded_graphics/Philmont%20NM%208-2007.jpg"><br> <br><span>On the Tooth of Time, Philmont Scout Ranch,<br> Cimarron, New Mexico, August 2007</span><br> <br><br> <br><img border="0" alt="" src="uploaded_graphics/Camp%20Emerson%207-2007%202.jpg"><br> <br><span>At Camp Emerson, California Inland Empire Council, <br> with Scout Executive Don Townsend,<br> and Council President Chris Manning, July 2007</span><br> <br><br> <br><img border="0" alt="" src="uploaded_graphics/Rick%20Cronk%20and%20Alvin%20Townley%206-2007.jpg"><br> <br><span>BSA President Rick Cronk and Alvin Townley share the <br> stage at the 2007 National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2007</span> <p align="center"><span></span> </p> <p align="center"><span><img title="" alt="" width="300" height="225" src="uploaded_graphics/Alvin%20Townley%20Breckenridge%20CO.jpg"></span> <p align="center"><span>Hiking outside Breckenridge, Colorado, Spring 2007 <p align="center"><br> <br><br> <br></span><img border="0" alt="" align="middle" src="uploaded_graphics/Union-League-Club-2008-NYC.jpg"><br> <br>New York City Scouts at the Union League Club<br> New York, New York in May 2007<br> <br><br> <br><img border="0" alt="" src="uploaded_graphics/AT%20Frits%20van%20Pashan%20Tony%20C%20host%20Denver%205-2007.JPG"><br> <br><span><span>Alvin</span></span><span><span> in Denver, Colorado, with Coors President & CEO<br> Fritz van Paasschen and event sponsor Tony Bolazina, May 2007</span></span> <!-- stopprint --></span> <!-- stopprint -->