From: CoopWright@aol.com
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 05:51:34 CDT
Gary
Let me try and answer your questions. If you have already sent in your trek selections to Philmont, the problem is out of your hands. What you get from Philmont is what you will take. The best thing you can do now is to take monthly shakedown hikes. Pr
obably the most important thing that you can teach your crew during these shakedowns is how to do the in camp chores efficiently. Hiking isn't the hardest part of Philmont (you won't believe me when you are stuggling up Mount Phillips or Baldy). Doing i
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Now pack weight. First of all, keep your pack weight down before adding food and crew gear. My good friend Dr. Bob Klein weighs every article of personal gear that each crew member is planning to bring and if it weighs too much, he tells them it isn't go
ing. That may be extreme, but his crews normally leave Base Camp with all personal and crew gear, food (approximately 10 per person with a full load) and water with packs UNDER 40 pounds. I've seen some advisors and crew members weighing their packs on
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Cooper Wright
Advisor, Crew 1519
Co-author of the Philmont Advisor's Guide
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