[philmont] don't knock the poncho

In 1970, our council elders felt that an important part of the trip was for each Scout to receive a cowboy hat, and budgeted to buy one for each of us when we hit Colorado Springs. They were the woven, hard, somewhat plasticized kind rather than a real stetson. The back brim had a way of striking the top of the backpack, and some of the youth cut off that part of the brim rather than endure the inconvenience.

I bought a dining fly surplus from the Ranch in 1991. It smells of 10,000 campfires (to this day). The tarp I bought surplus this year does not have the same "flavor".

All for now.

Bill Sheehan, ASM
Troop 55, Pitman, NJ
Philmont '70,'72, Autumn Adventure '01,'03,'05

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Received on Sat Nov 25 18:04:38 2006