Re: [Philmont]: Post 9/11 air travel -- HOW TO WRAP PACKS?

Consider shipping your packs.

This is our first trek. Our crew of 11 is flying from Atlanta to Denver, and
then taking a school bus to Philmont in July. We'll have a one-day stopover
for sightseeing in Colorado Springs, so hand carrying our trail and travel
clothing is not a big inconvenience for our less-than-48-hours, one-way transit
time.

We learned Philmont has receiving and shipping facilities for UPS and perhaps
FedEx.

We decided to ship our packs, knives, tent stakes (gutter nails), sleeping
bags, and stoves to Philmont to arrive a couple of days ahead of us. We plan to
use Philmont-issue tents, etc. so shipments of packs, stoves and sleeping
bags isn't heavy, just bulky. We will travel with only carry-on bags containing
our clothes, and we'll wear our boots to travel in (This way, we'll know
everyone remembered to pack their boots!).

We expect this approach will de-hassle the airport baggage handling and
security processes on both ends of the trip, no matter what the security level at
that time. We plan to save shipping cartons for reuse at Philmont and include
a roll of packing tape and return labels in our outbound shipment. We will
ship our packs and stoves etc back from Philmont, too. Per person cost of
shipping is not unreasonable.

Worth a considering.

Charlie Pineo
Trek Advisor 721-B1
Troop 994
Woodstock, GA

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Received on Tue Jun 24 16:14:53 2003