RE: [Philmont]: Any sight of the '05 Itinerary Guide

So why is there such a long waitlist of crews trying to get into
Philmont, if the occupancy rate
is only near the 50% level? Does Philmont purposely only fill to the
~50% level or are crews dropping
out to that level? Seems to me that there is a long waitlist of crews
that never get a call from
Philmont to fill vacancies. Of course there are a lot of popular treks,
but if Philmont gave me a call
and told me that my chosen treks were not available, but many others
were, I would jump to the chance
at getting any trek.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com] On
Behalf Of Dr. Bob Klein
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:25 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Any sight of the '05 Itinerary Guide

It is my understanding that there are only between 30 and 40 Crews per
day, so with 35 treks and 2 Crews per trek (most years), the average
"occupancy" rate is around 50 percent. Given that about 10 treks are
perpetually popular, I would suspect that there are a number of treks on

the other end of the scale that only seldom see a Crew. Certainly Trek
19 would be at the bottom of my personal list, if I were allowed to vote

on or influence my Crew's selection.

Rice Brewer wrote:
> Following the logic....
>
> Then, in that case, there were two crew spots, per day, that went
> unfilled as 100% capacity is two crews on every trek every day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]
On
> Behalf Of Brian Gannon
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:48 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
> Subject: RE: [Philmont]: Any sight of the '05 Itinerary Guide
>
>
> In the end, it doesn't matter, there is no such thing as a
> *bad* Philmont trek.
>
> While that may be true, take Trek 19 from 2004. According to the
latest
> issue of "High Country" (the Philmont Staff Association magazine), not
a
> single crew took that trek last summer. As a result, it will most
> likely be completely changed for this summer. Out of curiosity, I
> decided to take a look at it, so here it is: Bent...Rich Cabins...Dan
> Beard...Iris Park...Ring Place...Whiteman Vega (2)...Seally
Canyon...Old
> Camp...Indian Writings While I hate to say it, it does not look like a
> great trek as it doesn't climb a single peak (in fact, it doesn't go
> higher than 8500 feet) and it doesn't offer much in the way of
> programming. On the other hand, I'm sure it offers some great
scenery,
> solitude (more than any other trek I'm sure) and a great chance to
> practice low-impact camping. But I guess those aren't the first
things
> folks look at when selecting a trek. Trek 7 from 2004 was fairly
> similar, so it will be interesting to see if that gets changed too.
> Remember, we've been told to expect at least minor changes on about
> two-thirds of the treks this summer.
>
> Brian Gannon
> 628-G1
>

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Received on Tue Mar 8 18:23:15 2005