[philmont] Last full crew / Backcountry soda and candy

There are already too many crews phoning in simple simons orders and taking
delivery along highway 64 ... ugh.

Look, celebrating accomplishments are fine, in fact essential, and if it's
candy that floats your crew's boat thats fine too ... but bring it from home
or base camp and like any other food item or smellable, treat it with the
appropriate level of respect.

Finally, and I know I won't be popular for this one ... 'cause I'm not with
my crews: Simple Simons is great as is the 64 drive-in ... but its just
burgers and pizza ... hardly a novelty in the real world. I'd rather see a
crew take the time to tour the villa and reflect a little about humility,
selflessness, philanthropy and vision than to bypass all that for a burger
or a slice. A fifteen year old left to his own devices isn't likely to make
that choice, but will likely remember it forever ... as this (once) 15 year
old did. If you have time for both, knock yourself out, if you don't the
choice, in my mind, is easy.

I was one that didn't mourn the loss of the town shuttle in '06; but applaud
Mike Pardue and Blue Sky for bringing it back.

Just my opinion.

YIS
Jim
HA Chair Chester County Council
www.troop6bsa.org?cmd=philmont
PSR '74(16) '04(4) '06(26)
IWTGBTP
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From: philmont@troop47.com [mailto:philmont@troop47.com]On Behalf Of
Dave Smith
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:08 PM
To: philmont List Member
Subject: [philmont] Last full crew / Backcountry soda and candy

What fun is there to roll into base camp on day 12 and head over to the
trading post for a soda and candy when you've been stuffing yourself all
trek long? What next, pizza slices for sale at staff camps, to take away
the fun of hurrying to Simple Simon's?

I carried individual packages of Skittles all trek for Baldy peak. I was
afraid M&Ms or anything chocolate would melt in base camp. If I had
known they sold Toblerone, I would have bought it along the way. The
kids were very thankful for the Skittles.

I agree they should eliminate or restrict the candy (maybe only sell
candy to advisors). They should keep the root beer, but limit it.

Dave Smith
Troop 32
Santa Rosa, CA

GEORGE TAYLOR wrote:

> Jim, I want to elaborate on Larry's toblerone comment. I became an
> amateur expert on Philmont by reading everything that comes out on
> this list (the old pros here are really awesome in terms of the depth
> of advice and soundness of reasoning, and some of them aren't really
> that old (50's doesn't count)), and one of the suggestions I read
> early on was that it is good to have something to do to celebrate
> making it to the top of Baldy. One adviser carried a bag of M&M's to
> the summit and shared them with the crew. Others have used other
> candy, all of which has to be purchased at home and hauled a long way.
>
> Buying the M&M's was one of those things on my list that didn't get
> done prior to departure, but when we arrived at Baldytown on our way
> to the summit, I ran in to the trading post (which actually has all
> kinds of stuff) and bought two small Toblerone bars for each Scout.
> When we got to the top, I gave them to the Scouts to celebrate our
> accomplishment. You would have thought I served them a steak dinner
> with all the words of thanks, and it really turned out well. My only
> cautionary note was that I required that one Scout take up and account
> for every single wrapper so that none were left in pants pockets or
> backpacks, but I highly recommend a couple of a pieces of chocolate as
> a good way to acknowledge a significant milestone in your trek.
>
> George

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