From: Donald S. Roberts (don@hummellawfirm.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 13:18:39 CDT
My wife accompanied me to PTC, along with our two kids. Parts II and IV
dealt with the kids, so now we look at the spouse program. Senores is an
unfortunate name in this day when there are both male and female scouters.
In fact, at least one couple we got to know at PTC, wife going to classes,
husband non-Scouter, felt a bit put out by the name, and the husband was a
little reluctant to join in. As the vast majority of scouters at PTC (at
least during our week) was still male, the vast majority of the Senores is
still female, so I'm not sure what Philmont can do about it.
The Senores group was big. During closing campfire, when each of the family
groups was doing its skits, the next group was to go back stage to be on
deck. When it was time for the Senores to be on deck, the staff said that
the Senores had to stay in their seats because "we need an audience." :-)
The Senores has an extremely flexible schedule. Unlike the regimented
programs for the kids, the Senores basically sign up for what they want to
do throughout the week. They still do things as groups each day (other than
family day Wednesday), but they split up into smaller groups to do different
things. Sometimes it is just a matter of different times for each group to
do the same things (the Senores are such a large group, they have little
choice). The activities for the week are highly dependent on what the
individuals want to do, so there is no guarantee that any particular
activity will occur. For instance, they had signups for a morning and an
afternoon horse riding session. However, so few signed up for horse riding,
one session was cancelled.
There are a large number of things to do, from day hikes, visits to
surrounding communities and museums, going a bit further to places like Fort
Union and Taos or even Santa Fe, etc. My wife selected three sessions of
COPE (you had to do three to get to do the zip line, which was her goal).
The zip line starts you about 50 feet off the ground, and you attach to a
wire on a pulley and zip down about 80 yards. My wife let go and went down
spread eagled, she had a great time with that one. Fortunate, my class was
touring the COPE area when she was going on the zip line and I was able to
get pictures. Hopefully they'll come out.
She also elected to go to Indian Writings, the archaeological dig in North
country. Villa Philmonte, Rayado, etc. She never got time to go into
Cimarron, though our kids did go with another family at one point. They
really enjoyed the St. James and the Old Mill (my son, having discovered
patch trading, was very impressed with their patch collection).
We went to Santa Fe and Fort Union on our way to Philmont, so she didn't
elect either of those (both are HIGHLY worth visiting, however). She also
did not choose the outing to Raton. My wife is not the shopper type (count
those blessings, Don), she's more into active stuff and museums.
I know some of the men went on hikes, did COPE and Indian Writings, not sure
what other non-participant male spouses did.
There is so much variety in the Senores program I can't do it justice. I
will put it this way. As we left, I asked my wife if she wants to go again.
Her face lit up and she enthusiastically responded immediately "YES!"
Regards
Don
Donald S. Roberts
Law Offices of Philip L. Hummel, IV
500 N. State College Blvd., Suite 1200
Orange, CA 92868
714-978-6771 Fax: 714-634-3869
don@hummellawfirm.com
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