[philmont] One time shot

Jim's note about good gear and long time service was right on target. If your unit plans on making these types of adventures part of the ongoing program buy the best you can for its long term service. Our unit has stoves, Fair Share mugs, water bags, tents and pegs that have gone several times. I regulary lend out my 2 1/2 gal. water bags and my Svea 123R stove has been to PSR a bunch of times since 1982. I am our council's COPE and Climbing chair and we learned a long time ago to buy the most indestructible gear - its the best use of the council's money.
   
  Terry Pogue
  Greater St. Louis Area Council

Jim Moss <bsa.rec.law@gmail.com> wrote:
                Terry’s comments added to something I’ve been thinking about the list recently. A lot of these posts seem to point towards a onetime trip. Philmont has been classified as the pinnacle of Scouting and such as the end. It should not be. Like all of Scouting, Philmont should be one more step that is moving youth and adults along a part that includes understanding and appreciating the great outdoors.
   
  I still have and use the sleeping bag I bought for my Philmont trip….in 1967. I bought a really great down bag and it is still a great bag.
   
  If you approach Philmont and pass on to the youth in your charge the idea that Philmont should be done as cheaply as possible, I can’t help but think that you will be also be making the experience cheap. If you pass on that everything is a onetime use, it will be.
   
  I understand saving money, I do not understand thinking that everything I am taking to Philmont can only be used as Philmont or will only be used at Philmont. My last trip to Philmont I used gear that had been in the wilderness many times before and many time since.
   
  Make this a trip of a lifetime for you and the youth you work with, but don’t make it the only trip of a lifetime.
   
   
  Jim
  Recreation.Law@gmail.com
   

       
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