[Philmont] stoves and AMTRAK

Just a story that happened to us about mailing stoves. On our last Autumn Adventure in 2003, I sent the stoves via UPS to the ranch a little over two weeks before our trek. I sweated when it took 10 days till they finally made it there from Ohio. One guy's wife travelled out with us and stayed with a sister in Pueblo, CO while we were on the trail. On the return trip we gave her (the sister) the box of stoves to ship home. I gave them to her on Saturday. Much to my surprise they were on my porch on Monday. I know that she sent them USPS. A couple of days later one of the crew called and told me he had inadvertently left a full Powermax cannister in his pack and it flew home with us. No one caught either of those mistakes. If we had tried to intentionally "smuggle" them out there or back home, we would have probably either been caught and been in jail, lost the stoves or both. Go figure. Moral of the story. Don't tempt fate. Mail them out in plenty of time.

Ken Flanagan
Philtreks X 10
AA X 2

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Received on Sat Jul 14 19:03:39 2007