[Philmont]: RE: 6 Months to Go

Daniel Preston writes...
 
I really don't understand the thinking that shakedown hikes cannot be for physical conditioning. Of course shakedown hikes prepare the crew to work as a team, but there is nothing that prepares you physically for backpacking like backpacking. Exercising and running stadium steps are fine but backpacking over steep terrain is the best physical conditioning you can do. Doing this as crew provides both teamwork training and physical conditioning, not just one or the other.
 
 
Comment...
 
If the only time your crew is hiking with a full backpack is on shakedown hikes, you have problem...

The shakedown will show if the crew is properly conditioning themselves, but if they aren't, it is not going to happen just on shakedown hikes.
 
-- Al Thomson, Troop 236,
Schooley's Mountain, NJ
Treks 1999, 2001, 2003
Autumn Adventures 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006

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Received on Fri Jan 13 14:01:40 2006