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

Charlie,

Hi from Cleveland, Ga.! Just curious....where are you
going to spend the night between Denver and Philmont? We
have flown into Colorado Springs and spent the night at the
Youth Hostel at the military base there.
Hope you have a great trek!

Vicki Bishop
Troop 140
Cleveland, Ga.

>>> CCPineoIII@aol.com 06/24/03 05:05PM >>>
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 Wed Jun 25 16:28:13 2003