Re: [Philmont]: Philmont-Double H Plans and stuff

Hmm.. so 4 crews times 8-9 days (including basecamp days, days off), that's
32-36 wilderness guides. i guess i need to hurry and get my app in really
soon.

i've also been searching for info on the double-h. i checked out topzone.com
and looked around on that, and needless to say, it looks like some nice
terrain =)

Greg Leuch
Eagle, 2001
Philmont, 2000, 2001
http://www.xipia.org
email@xipia.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "E Fred Mussler" <emuss3@ipass.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:52 AM
Subject: [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!
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> 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?
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> 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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