High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pacific Crest Youth Arts Organization (PCYAO) is a non-profit music education organization that has provided several performance outlets for youth in the Southern California area. Pacific Crest is a World Class (formerly Division I) drum and bugle corps that competes in Drum Corps International. Pacific Crest was created in 1993 and marched only 33 members their first season. The corps continued to grow throughout the next ten years, and in 2003 the corps took their first extended tour to DCI World Championships. This tour allowed first-time viewers of the corps to witness the group’s presence in Division I Semifinals, a feat that caught many other corps by surprise. At four weeks long, the corps’ 2007 tour was the longest in corps history where they again made it to Semifinals. With the success of 2007, Pacific Crest expanded their tour to a 25 day tour in 2008.