[Philmont]: Philmont-Double H Plans and stuff

Greetings you lucky Phil Pholks!

We were unable to obtain reservations to Philmont this year and our local
council contingents fill up without ever being published and opened to the
public, but thats another story for another day.
We were really looking around for what to do and had begun to investigate
many of the fine suggestions that I obtained here. It was hard getting
people motivated, they were down after not getting a Philmont reservation,
(many of the boys have brothers that went in previous years)
Thats when we heard whispers of a "new adventure" at a place called Double H
Ranch. Well, before I even closed the email I sent one to the ranch and
asked to be put on any info list. To make a long story short they did, we
did, and this week I sent my reservations to Philmont for two crews to
particpate in the inaugural program at the Double H Ranch, what ever and
where ever that may be!

If anyone else is also going to the Double H and wants to form a smaller
"support group" please let me know and I will arrange it , with everyone's
ok. I have been in touch with a Philmont Ranger who is one of the very few
people to hike all over the Double H, and he has sent me pictures, and is
willing to answer questions, to the best of his ability. However he is a
college student and doesn't want nor need to be inundated with email. So I
volunteered to be the "front" for him/us. This list is monitored by his dad,
but direct contact/questions would be productive.

With that in mind, I ask the rest of you, if you were prepareing to take a
dozen boys into the relative wilderness in a place with not trails, no plan,
no maps and no idea what to expect, what would you do ? How would you
prepare?

They tell us that each of the four crews that go out each day will be
accompanied by a Ranger, who will stay with them for the whole 7 days.
Pholks, thats an awful lot of rangers, throw in another dozen so people can
have a day or two off, or for sickness and illness and what have you got?
Rangers at Philmont are an issue in a good year. Lets get the word out to
our philmont college students that they are needed!

Anyway, Good Scouting, Good Hiking, Don't sweat the small stuff....
YIS
Hiking Czar a.k.a.
Fred Mussler, Scoutmaster
Troop 357 Raleigh, NC
Eagle Class of 75
Philmont 1990,98,00,02
Double H Ranch 2004 -715-500

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Received on Sat Nov 15 08:09:14 2003