RE: [Philmont]: High adventure IE alternatives to Philmont

my troop went to NT in Canada last summer -- the Bissett, Manitoba base.

We went a couple days early to explore Winnipeg. Stayed at a youth Hostel,
went to the Royal Canadian mint, Manitoba Museum (full scale replica of the
1st ship to enter Hudson Bay in the 1600's), and even got to go to a
baseball game--- the Winnipeg GOLDEyes (it's a fish). Got lots of extra
fishing stuff at the Walmart, licenses too. Boys found a go-kart plact to
visit too. WONDERFUL time in Bissett, a very small base, lots of personal
attention. Saw NO ONE else but other scouts and a few fisherman on our
canoe trek.............the best part, the FLOAT Plane ride.

Going home, we stayed at a hotel near the airport with a pool and giant
slide. ordered pizza, and watched movies.

More expensive than Ely, but well worth the isolation and Canadian
experience. The boys got really fast at converting money in their
head.............

Kim Pigorsch
Membership Chairmun (sic)

www.troop681.org

San Diego, CA

>From: "Mike Bingley" <mbingley@telusplanet.net>
>Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list philmont <philmont@troop47.com>
>Subject: RE: [Philmont]: High adventure IE alternatives to Philmont
>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:30:10 -0800
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>Hi,
>
>You might want to also consider:
>
>Impeesa Extreme - Canada's first High Adventure Program - very similar to
>Tahosa, from all accounts - more rugged that Philmont, backpacking in the
>Canadian Rocky Mountains - www.chinook.scouts.ca/impeesa-x gets you to
>their
>website (though the contact email on said website is incorrect right now -
>you'll want to email Bob Dyer - bdyer@scouts.ca for more info). For those
>of you long timers on this list, I'm not directly associated with Impeesa
>any more, as I took a transfer within Scouts Canada to Vancouver Island
>last
>fall, but I will still vouch for a great program. They always have lots of
>spots available - High Adventure bases are a new idea to Canadian Scouting.
>
>Northern Tier - www.ntier.org - canoeing rather than backpacking, but still
>definitely high adventure! I worked there for a couple of summers when I
>was in university and we always got a kick out of people who had been to
>Philmont telling us after their trip that they'd had as good of a time with
>us. They also often have spots available at a late date.
>
>Hope that gives you a couple of ideas you might not have considered.
>
>Cheers and Good Scouting!
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com] On
>Behalf Of Steven Handeland
>Sent: March 6, 2005 11:32 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
>Subject: [Philmont]: High adventure IE alternatives to Philmont
>
>
>I'm wonder if any of you fine folks on this list server have any first hand
>knowledge/experince at any of the following High Adventure Bases'?
>I am gather information at this point and in a week or so will let the the
>scouts make some choices. At that point I plan to hand it over to them for
>the final planning. (with some guidence of course)
>In no particular order here they are:
>Elkhorn
>Packard
>Tahosa Rocky Mountain
>Del Webb
>Teton
>Tomahawk
>We are 700 something on the Philmont list and are looking at these council
>camps instead for 2006. We may still sign up with N.T. for a end of summer
>2005 trip.
>
>Steven Handeland, Scoutmaster troop 711 Minneapolis, MN.
>
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