[philmont] 13th crew member

"In fact sang my 3-year old daughter to sleep last night with the Philmont hymn."
   
  Now that's a Scouting father if there ever was one!
   
  Pete Swiggum
  Green Bay, WI
  Philmont 2005 (& 2010?)
  ICWTGBTP!!!
  

Larry Taylor <Larry.Taylor@co.travis.tx.us> wrote:
      The other option is minimizing the Adults in the Crew.
  From what I have experienced (1 trek) and heard, adults are usually the problem
  people on the trek (I am not trying to start a bar fight!).
   
  My son's trek would have been much better if myself and another out-of-shape, acrophobic, Cubscout father had been left at home.
   
  Do not get me wrong I loved Philmont. In fact sang my 3-year old daughter to sleep last night with the Philmont hymn. The trek did give my son and I a shared, treasured experience that we do talk about positively.
   
  But If you have more than 2 adults and one standby adults then you have too many.
  Most of them will not get into shape will carry way too much for anybody's fitness level on their back and slow up and emotionally drag down the scouts (boy, I sound negative).
   
  BTW, our trek leader lost his mother January before the trek, he had exercise induced asthma that she had been hiding from us, and the night before we left the father decided not to let him go, so even with 13 person crew you might leave with only 12
   
  Just thoughts
  Sam Taylor T89, Austin, Texas
  " I once was a bear ......"

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Received on Tue Apr 8 21:19:07 2008