From: David.Thorn@winona.msus.edu
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 15:08:06 CDT
We left at 6:00 am last year from UCF and Arrived at Base Camp after 1:00.
This was a fairly strong crew. They took a good amount of time at the
tooth.
This is the entry from my log at
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/philmont-618j-2001.html
June 29, Saturday
Brian woke us all up early and we packed quickly. The hike to Shaefers Pass
was a steady up hill climb but the day was still cool and we made good
time. We continued on up to Shaefers Peak the total climb from UCF to
Shaefers Peak is over 1,500 feet and we were starting to get a bit tired
but continued with only short water breaks until we reached the cut off for
the Tooth of Time. When we then took about 20 minutes to eat the rest of
our breakfast and trail mix.
We now began the scramble up the tooth. Somehow I did not expect to be
doing this rough of climbing. The boys soon left me behind but I continued
up passing other on the way down who assured me it was very worth the
climb. (It certainly is) When we were all on top we took pictures and
savored the last moments in the Philmont backcountry. Ryan then passed the
maps to Brian on behalf of the crew and asked him to lead the crew into
base camp from the position of honor the front. He was surprised by this as
non of us had told him we wanted him to do this. We then headed down the
tooth to where we had left our packs.
Brian to his position in front and we now on our way to tooth ridge camp.
When we arrived at the camp the trail got confusing and Brian took us south
at a junction where we should have gone north. (I thought he was correct as
well) After about 5 min we came to a dead end in the trail and had to go
back. We will always be able to give Brian a hard time about the only time
we went down the wrong trail was with him as the navigator.
We now started down the trail to Base Camp. As many have stated before this
trail is much longer then the current maps show. I goes back and forth
across the ridge adding several extra miles. It is also mostly in the open
and has almost no shade. We stopped sometime after noon to have lunch in
what little shade we could find. We were already hot and spent from the sun
and just wanted to get down. After lunch we packed up again and continued
on down. We finally arrived under the "You Made It" banner at around 1:45.
By that time the souls of my shoes were very hot and I thought I had a
blister on the pad of my right foot. (Turns out that it was only the heat
of the trail) I was also dehydrated and out of water.
Brian went to find out what we needed to do now that we were back and the
rest of us got water and just rested. Brian then returned with the check
out sheet and I went to get our valuables from administration while the
rest of the crew got the gear out of the lockers. We then returned the
tents, cooking gear, polar pure, and other items. I passed out the
valuables and then went to security to return the locker keys. We then went
to our assigned tents and headed for the showers. That night at dinner Bill
our ranger ate with us. It was good to see him again once more.
We then went to chapel and finally to the closing campfire. Then we all
went to the snack bar for Ice Cream. We got to bed at about 11:00 pm.
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