Three Scotts Valley Boy Scouts from Troop 614 in Scotts Valley attained the highest rank in Scouting, Eagle Scout, last week.
Ryan Snell, Daniel Palmer and Ryland Callander completed Eagle Scout final projects at the Salvation Army’s Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley.
During a ceremony Jan. 2 at Camp Redwood Glen, the three boys were granted their Eagle rank. Callander’s older brother, Clayton Callander, was also awarded the Eagle rank he earned two years ago, just before leaving for the U.S. Naval Academy.
Snell entered Cub Scout Pack 604 in 2000 and joined Troop 614 in 2005. Among other honors, he was elected to membership in the Order of the Arrow, the National Honor Society of Boy Scouts of America. Among summer camps and backpacking trips, he climbed the 14,032-foot Mount Langley in the Sierra Nevada range.
He is a full International Baccalaureate junior at Scotts Valley High School.
Palmer started as a Webelos Cub Scout and joined Troop 614 in sixth grade. He has made more than 50 camping trips, including a visit to the International Scouting Jamboree in Switzerland and a climb to the summit of 14,505-foot Mt. Whitney.
A motorcycle enthusiast, Palmer graduated from Scotts Valley High in June and is a freshman at Cabrillo College, where he’s studying business and marketing.
Ryland Callander joined Troop 14 when he turned 11. He has camped all over California and attended a handful of summer camps, including the World Scout Jamboree in England.
He is a senior at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, where he serves as vice president and runs cross country and track and plays soccer.
Clayton Callander is a sophomore at the U.S. Naval Academy and a member of the varsity lightweight crew team there. He became a Scout in 2002 and completed his Eagle Scout project by re-landscaping the front of Vine Hill Elementary School, where he had been a student. He also attended Stevenson School, where he was on the varsity cross country, soccer and track teams.
Eagle is the highest rank a young man can achieve in the Boy Scouts of America, and only 2 percent of all boys who take part in Scouting achieve the rank.
