RE: [Philmont]: Gear

No shortage of opinions here ... ever ... :-)

I believe that crew gear ... stoves, tarp, fuel, water purifiers, bear rope,
etc should be assigned to spcific individuals ... this worked well for us,
but I'm sure there are other options.

I believe that food should be evenly distributed daily ... its all going up
in a bag overnight anyway so simply knowing how many bags each should carry
on a daily basis worked well for us. An improvement I'll suggest to my '06
crew will be that on any given day eating buddies carry their
breakfast/lunch for that day and that the cooks carry that day's dinner. We
didn't do this in '04 and had at least one "empty all the packs" drills at
lunch. Also we never ate breakfast in camp, we chose to hike for an hour or
so, or to a specific spot, for breakfast. The only wrinkle here being the
discovery of a scout that didn't perform well without a little fuel ..
easily addressed with some "snacks" picked up from drop boxes along the way

We did adjust the food bag distribution at one point to lighten one of our
participant's load, but that was temporary.

Jim
ASM T6
PSR '74, '04, '06
www.troop6bsa.org?cmd=philmont

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of Donald S. Roberts
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: RE: [Philmont]: Gear

> From: j.tavares@comcast.net
> Someone suggested to me, the other day, whoever is carrying
> crew gear should carry the same gear every day. That way,
> "who has the ???" gets answered without everyone emptying
> their packs. Sounds like a good technique. Also sounds like
> one that speeds up getting out of the campsite every morning.
> We're trying that on our shakedowns and it seems to be
> working pretty well.
>
We found that with the reduction in food each day from a four day pickup, if
we did not redistribute each day, we would have the boys who have the food
for the fourth day carrying a load that whole time, while boys with food for
the first day had 3 days without. We used redistribution of crew gear as
the way to rebalance without having to break up food packages and figure out
where the food went.
...

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Received on Fri Jan 6 19:23:25 2006