[philmont] What goes inside your tent?

Don Roberts wrote
 
>> First, I hope you have obtained from Coop his advisors guide. Worth
it's weight in gold.
 
Absolutely!!!
 
>> Living in bear country, IMHO, Philmont goes way overboard on the
smellables thing,
 
Our boys groused about the "overboard" bear safety training and rules.
But they stopped their complaining the day we say our first bear on the
trail. They even complained about other crews who grossly broke the
safety rules with food left in the campsite (flirting with disaster).
Anyway, the rules are also meant to protect the bears. With thousands of
campers passing through their home each summer, they are bombarded with
strange and tempting smells. You may be able to get away without having
a bear incident if you bend the rules a bit, but over the course of a
summer, the bear may become intrigued by a new smell and decide to check
it out. And a friendly bear is a dead bear.
 
>> Can't imagine wanting to carry a stocking cap on a trek, though.
 
I sleep cold so I had a cap too. It's a small synthetic "skull" cap (I
can't recall the brand). I picked it up on sale for a few bucks after
the holidays a few years ago. (A Scout is thrifty, which means the end
of winter is the time to look for end of season sales for winter gear
for next year!)
 
>> I don't understand the recommendation for gloves for the same reason,
either.
 
 I didn't need gloves in my tent but I did bring a pair of light duty
deerskin work gloves. I used them twice. First on our conservation
project when we hauled hay bales up the side of the canyon as part of
the Ponil complex reseeding. Then again at the end of the trek at Tooth
Ridge campsite during a hail storm when the temps dropped a bit.
 
Kevin Mineart wrote:
>>We changed into sleeping clothes outside the tent and clothing went in
1 plastic bag and boots in another which were kept in the vestibule of
the tent (open vestibule.) Packs were under pack covers or HD garbage
bags under a nearby tree or under the dining fly.
 
I read a tip where you can put boots in a Tyvec material envelope. It's
waterproof and breathable. So I saved a USPS shipping envelope to test
it out on campouts this year. My day clothes went into my pack, which I
leaned against a tree in the bear-muda triangle. I would keep my
sleeping clothes in a separate bag in my pack and change right there.
Many of the boys stored their backs under the fly, but I found it too
crowded and congested so the I'd find a tree and my pack cover, which is
slightly oversized, kept everything dry.
 
Willie Vannerson
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Lead Advisor 2007 Crew 803-CX

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