To all,
I used US next day mail and sent it out the day after receiving the card. Just received confirmation of our first choice.
Mike
>From: "E Fred Mussler"
>Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
>Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Trek Cards - FedEx ok?
>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:03:09 -0500
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>Can't hurt. I have used Fed Ex successfully when things need to get there
>fast. The US mail won't gurantee next day delivery from many parts of the
>country, but for $3 versus $15, it probably doesn't matter too much.
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>If you have two treks, you have to have two cards, but they can go in the
>same envelope.
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>Whenever we had two treks, we always requested to travel as "sister" crews,
>meaning we both took the same route. When doing so we made sure that we
>indicated on both cards that we wanted to be a sister crew and with whom.
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>All treks have two crews per day scheduled on them. So you are kind of
>leapfrogging with someone the whole time. It might as well be someone you
>know. However, the campsites are remote enough from each other that you have
>to want to go visit the other crews in a particular campsite. On some trips
>we "socialized" alot with our sister crew, after dinner, during activities
>and such. On other trips we totally ignored each other.
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>Some advantages to being sister crews are that if there are real problems
>with either advisors or behavior of the scouts, you may be able to help. For
>instance as the scoutmaster I was able to read the riot act to a scout with
>more impact than the advisor of the crew the scout was with, and everything
>went well. We have had instances of being able to fix/share equipment like a
>broken stove or an odd sized belt buckle on a hip strap. Finally all the
>scouts saw the same things, so there was a common thread to talk about at
>home, as well as a lack of "jealousy" because one trek was perceived as
>"better than another"
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>Have a Great Trek! Regardless of how it works out. There are NO bad treks at
>Philmont!
>YIS
>Hiking Czar a.k.a.
>Fred Mussler, Scoutmaster
>Troop 357 Raleigh, NC
>Eagle Class of 75
>Philmont 1990,98,00,02
>Double H Ranch 2004 -715-500
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Received on Mon Mar 22 17:11:29 2004