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

50 percent *IS* the maximum occupancy level. That is all the Ranch can
handle, and if anything, it's too many.

Perkins, Mark wrote:
> 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.
>

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Received on Tue Mar 8 20:18:01 2005