RE: [Philmont]: Opinions on Treking Poles #2

Last summer all but two of our crew of 12 carried poles. We also brought a ripstop nylon fly. We used two inverted treking poles to put it up and had the tightest, most storm-worthy fly I saw during our trek. I have also looped three poles together to make a tripod, so a whole group could be photographed together, or to make a slow exposure. You just don't run out of uses for those treking poles.
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> To make dining fly higher off the ground you need 6 poles, we put treking
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> Kim Pigorsch
> Membership Chairmun (sic)
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> Troop 681
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> >From: "Troop 681 scout" <troop681@hotmail.com>
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> >To: Multiple recipients of list Philmont <Philmont@troop47.com>
> >Subject: RE: [Philmont]: Opinions on Treking Poles
> >Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:21:20 -0500
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> >I hiked Philmont in 1999 and 2003 with TREKING Poles.
> >I agree with everthing already said...........don't leave home without
> >them. We had adults and youth that used them this past summer.
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> >Helps the knees and also can be used to put up the Dining FLY...........so
> >you have one less item to check out and carry for crew gear. Also treking
> >poles allow you to make the dining fly higher off the ground so that it is
> >easier to work and sit under.
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> >I have GREAT photos our our guys this past summer playing CEO (a card game)
> >under the dining fly in the rain, all sitting on cut log stools. They
> >found the log stools close to our campsite near Philips Junction.
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> >TREKING poles are GREAT!!!
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> >Got mine at REI...............looking forward to a BIG REI rebate amount in
> >2004 from all the stuff I bought in 2003 for my philmont trek.
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> >Kim Pigorsch
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Received on Wed Dec 31 17:26:56 2003