RE: [Philmont]: Re: Philmont Package

As someone posted earlier, Philmont wants to give crews information
unrelated to trail selection and navigation, and it's easier and more clear
to do it on the souvenir map where everything is on one page. If you
indiscriminately mark up the detail maps, you risk obscuring one or more
important features your navigator may need during a "where are we?"
head-scratching session on the trail.

Last year, our crew leader took the souvenir map and used it to mark up his
copies of the sectional maps during some downtime on the first trail
day...carefully, so all notes were out of the way of trails we planned to
use. Even so, after eight days of stuffing the map in his pocket and
retrieving it in the rain, some of the print had worn off in a critical spot
when we were "challenged" to rediscover our intended route. We carried two
copies of the sectional maps so the backup copy came in handy.

>Ched Hudson
ASM, Troop 994
Fairfax Station VA
Philmont 67, 04

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of Pete Swiggum
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 9:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Re: Philmont Package

It seems very odd to me that Philmont would require the overall map at base
camp when the crew's trek has been assigned and the route is all on one
sectional map. Maybe someone can elaborate as to why this is.

Pete Swiggum
Troop 1173
Green Bay, WI
Peter.Swiggum@sbcglobal.net

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Received on Tue Mar 22 07:26:22 2005