[Philmont]: caterpiller

i guess i am a little confused. i and my crew are from florida, so i guess it is to be expected. i had read about caterpillaring for several years, but always figured it was an old technique for the old trails now filled in with brush and not the new ones at about 7 percent grade. i had never actually seen it done, after 2 treks. this year, we passed a crew between aspen springs and cito doing the caterpillar (as we returned to cito from a resupply at ute gulch in a little more than 2 hours round trip), but the crew advisers were really old (older than my 60 years) so i figured they were entitled. my florida crews have always streaked up and down the hills. i and at least one other crew adviser are usually a little slower, but not so slow as to be very far behind. so what's the need to caterpillar with the new trails? maybe up the west side of phillips or over black mountain, but otherwise i don't see the need. is everyone doing it everywhere anyway? or is it really uncommon? jackson morris, contingent leader, 608-k, gulf ridge council, florida

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Received on Tue Aug 10 18:08:09 2004