RE: [Philmont]: Gear Questions

#2 Branding boots is fine, although do keep in mind that the brand often
invalidates any warranty on the boots (good thing to let parents know before
hand)

#3 Trash bags make great raingear in an emergency--keep in mind, a teenage
emergency can range from losing a rainjacket, to burning a huge hole in it,
to the raingear in question being windgear.

another post: good point about the info being written on the water bottles.
  They are one of the most common lost and found items at a camp. On the
plus side, if we ever encountered a scout at our camp who had lost a water
bottle, we pulled an unmarked bottle from our lost and found and gave it to
them with a provision that he turn it in to the lost and found at base camp.
  (It reached there by the scout as soon as it would have by truck, and we
hoped that the prior owner got another at a camp down the road--kind of a
roundabout way to pass on a good turn. Plus, it was a good way to prevent
dehydration. Of course, we sterilized it first.)

>From: "Kelly Pennington" <kptigger@cfl.rr.com>
>Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list philmont <philmont@troop47.com>
>Subject: [Philmont]: Gear Questions
>Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:27:47 -0500
>
>Hi,
>I have recently been researching gear suggestions from prior posts, Cooper
>Wright's "Advisor Guide" (which is great, thanks Coop) various web sites
>etc. I have a few questions from the information I gained.
>1. Are 2 man tents required? Can you use 3 man tents?
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>2. How big are the brands (1 inch 2 inch)? Do they still brand boots? I
>was very proud of my brands from 1978 when I went as a young Eagle Scout.
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>3. I have seen at least two different packing lists that suggested that we
>bring 50 gal trash bags? What do you do with them?
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>4. In the past two years our troop has taken 10 crews to the Northern
>Tier, most of those crews packed extra trail snakes in the form of "Power
>Bars", "Luna Bars", "Cliff Bars" 1 each per day. They initial weight was
>heavy, but the daily treat was very well received, a different flavor and
>style bar each day.
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>YIS
>
>Kelly Pennington
>
>Troop 787 Orlando, FL
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Received on Thu Nov 17 03:34:24 2005