[Philmont]: RE: Other Question

Can see me grinning as I type this?

Wayne Rascati writes...

Having grown up in New Jersey and done my youth-age hiking there, their
worst trail is still better easier than any trail I have in my own backyard.

The highest point in New Jersey at 1,803 feet (appropriately named High
Point) is still lower in elevation than the foothills in which I live. To me
1,803 feet is a warm-up exercise for a stroll in the park.

Comment...

Don't know about the first (you must really have rough trails in your
backyard!), but I'll concede the second - New Jersey has a lot of things,
some of which are nothing to brag about, but elevation is definitely not one
of them!

But enough of that; an on-topic posting. Courtesy of Tom Wills, I have seen
photos of my troop's two crews (630H6 and 630H7; actually, in the interest
of full disclosure, each of the crews is 2/3 us and 1/3 other Council
members) in Base Camp and I am just blown away by how green things are. The
grass outside the Welcome Center looks like the lawn at the Villa Philmonte
(at least for color, it needed to be cut in the pictures I saw!), and the
ground behind the crews in their crew photos is just lush green. What a
difference from last summer!

- Al Thomson, Troop 236, Schooley's Mountain NJ
Advisor '99, '01, and '03
Autumn Adventure '00, '02 and '04
B&B '02

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Received on Sun Jul 4 09:25:48 2004