[philmont] Unusual smellables question

Our guys have caught some flack from more stodgy advisors through the
years, but my thinking is that if this works to help them already have
some crew unity going when they hit the trail, then I'm all for it.
The last crew (2005) doing it was a co-ed crew, including a couple of
girls with long blonde hair. It actually looked pretty good on them.
One boy in the 2003 crew had an enormous bright red afro (which he was
intentionally growing for all it's worth since he was about to enter
college on a full-ride Navy scholarship so knew he was about to get a
buzz cut at the end of the summer). The blue dye with the red turned
the whole mess into algae green, it really looked, um, interesting.

In 2005, I was chatting with a young lady on the conservation crew at
Apache Springs (working on the trail project to replace the "7
switchbacks from hell"), and asked her how she came to be at Philmont.
She told me that she'd been on a trek in 2003 and had a wonderful
time, but that they'd had a sister crew that was somewhat weird and
that they all had blue hair. Yup, turned out it was our guys.

So far the crew I'm with this time hasn't chosen to try this (and
we're about to run out of time to buy dye, the bus leaves tomorrow).
I'm afraid that my hair and beard have gotten white enough to take dye
really well, so I'm hoping it won't occur to them until too late!

Tw

On 7/31/07, coopwright@aol.com <coopwright@aol.com> wrote:
> T.W.
>
> Awesome post! My last trek to Philmont was in 2000. It was my first co-ed
> crew and they were a great bunch. We were staying in Colorado Springs fire
> house for a couple of days before we hit the ranch. I was walking down the
> hall and I heard laughter (both male and female) coming from the men's
> shower area. Naturally, all sorts of alarm bells began ringing in my
> head!!! Just when I decided I better venture in and see what was going on,
> out came the crew all with big smiles on their faces and all with different
> hair colors; blue, yellow, orange, red, purple. Because we hadn't had time
> to go to a store, this was something that they had decided to do before we
> left home.
>
> While we were at the ranch, we were known as the "Christmas Crew" because
> the kids looked like ornaments on a tree. The kids asked me if I wanted to
> join them, but I knew that I had to go to work when I got home and the color
> would still be in my hair.
>
> Cooper Wright
>

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