RE: [Philmont]: caterpiller

I usually asked the hike leader to do a caterpillar every half hour. It gave
us a chance to catch our breath, drink without splashing it down our fronts.
It also gives a chance to see everyone's face. I called for a caterpillar
soon after the hail storm when the temperature dropped because I wanted to
make sure no one was getting hypothermia.

It is a good break, where no one is tempted to take their pack off and turn
it into a long break.

On the back of Trail Peak, on the straight-up path, we did continuous
caterpillar. That was a SUCC - Straight Up Continuous C aterpillar.

Thanks,
Scott Sibley

>From: "Jackson Morris" <jmorris8@tampabay.rr.com>
>Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list philmont <philmont@troop47.com>
>Subject: [Philmont]: caterpiller
>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:27:01 -0400
>
>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 20:37:22 2004