[Philmont]: Paperwork & Backpacks

Do not take your paperwork on the trail. There is no need for it. There is no need for it outside of the council office except what Philmont requires. Do you really think someone at Philmont is going to ask you if you have permission to give a youth an aspirin on the trail? Try and convince a jury you had the necessary paperwork, but it was lost or rained on while you are on the trial. Paperwork goes in a file cabinet, not a backpack.

Speaking of backpacks.

I find the shipping backpacks discussion pretty moronic, ironic and just plain stupid.

You are investing $200 in a backpack and $1000 in a trip and trying to ship it in a garbage bag. Garbage is put in garbage bags. My backpacks go in a secure duffel with my sleeping pads around the backpack in the duffel. I don't want to spend a trip hiking with a broken backpack.

I use a heavy duty duffel bag with a secure zipper. For a once in a lifetime trip maybe you do not need to go that route, but at least get something to protect the bag & straps from conveyor belts.

James H. Moss, JD
PO Box 16743
Golden, CO 80402
jhmoss@earthlink.net
jmoss@coloradomtn.edu

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Received on Thu May 13 18:01:58 2004