Re: RE: [Philmont]: ?The Burro Issue

Joe,

Here's another recommendation FOR the burros. Our crew chose Trek 32 specifically because it had burros as a part of the experience.

My only complaint was the fact that packing training, scheduled for 0900, started nearly 40 minutes late. By the time training was completed it was nearly 1100. My advisor evaluation pointed out that there was no reason to have a massive training session but rather schedule with the wranglers. We would have been ready for training by 0730.

That being said the youth (this was an older, coed Venturing crew) ranked the burro packing along with Baldy as the two most memorable episodes from the trek. Their only complaint is that logistics lead them to believe that we could get two burros and we only got one.

I'd rank burro avoidance alongside of some of the cooking practices like forgoing making dessert or dumping green beans because its too much trouble. Part of Philmont is taking it all in.

Gary Boyd
Crew 151 CC
622-N-01
Georgetown, Texas

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Received on Tue Aug 9 09:25:03 2005