From: Selden E Ball Jr (SEB@LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 15:09:41 CST
Earlier Greg responded to your question
> > How and when was planning the trek done? Topo maps...
>
> It was done by the crew and leaders ahead of time. You will learn more about
> that sometime in March.
>
Some people really don't like waiting that long to start thinking
about what they want to do. You usually can use the previous year's
itineraries to get a pretty good idea of what treks will be available.
Some details probably will be different (new trails will have been
finished this past summer, fires may make some areas unusable, etc)
but it's very unlikely that they'll make major changes again like
they did for the summer of 2000.
Troop 62 of Winter Park, FL, has put a copy of Philmont's "Treks 2001"
on the Web at
http://www.bsatroop62.org/Philmont%202001/2001%20Itinary%20Guide/Itinerary%20Guide%20for%202001.htm
> > Clothes that you really didn't need?
>
> none. Follow the list that you will get in March. It will give you a
> checklist to follow.
Again, previous years' editions of the "Guidebook to Adventure" can be
very useful. The 1999 edition, for example, has been provided by Troop 4
of Pasadena, CA, as a large PDF file at
http://www.bsatroop4.org/philmont/guidebook.pdf
They provide a copy of the "2001 Council and Unit Planning Guide" at
http://www.bsatroop4.org/philmont/planning.pdf
[...]
> > The best food, the worst food, and some don'ts for preparing?
>
> The dinners are real good, especially when make a one=pot meal, including
> mixing your dessert in too! If someone on this list can explian to him the
> easy cleanup, i.e. the turkey roasting bag routine again!
Mike Floyd's turkey roasting bag method is described on the Web at
http://www.geocities.com/troop764x/phil_turkeybags.html
Links to these and other pages about Philmont can be found at
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/philmont.html
I hope this helps a little.
Selden
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