Re: [Philmont]: RE: Pace of Backpacking

Dave--

This is definitely backcountry principle #1 as far as Philmont is concerned.
Straggling into a staffed camp in the manner you describe may get your crew
a rather serious talking to from a rather irritated camp director before
you're assigned a site or allowed to do program. You might also wind up
being mentioned in Logistics or amongst the chaplains and backcountry
managers, which is not a good thing at all....

Doug Marquis
Staff '84-86, '03-'06?

----- Original Message ----- >
> Philmont / Backcountry Principle #1 should be : "Everyone stays together
> the whole time on the trail." We saw plenty of 2 man crews, followed a
> few minutes later by a 6 man crew, then even later, by a 4-man crew.
> Unsafe at any speed, my friends. Use the prep hikes to work on these
> things and it will make the trail much smoother out west.
>
> Dave Parmly
> Knoxville, TN

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Received on Thu Jan 12 22:27:44 2006