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

Think of Philmont as a restaurant and the trek list as the menu. No matter
how big the menu is, you still have a fixed number of seats and tables and
the kitchen help can only cook so many different things at one time.

Mark Ray
Resources for Boy Scouting
mark@eaglebook.com
http://www.eaglebook.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-philmont@troop47.com
> [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com] On Behalf Of Perkins, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:48 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
> Subject: 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.

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Received on Wed Mar 9 10:04:22 2005