[philmont] Autumn Adventure

I hope you took lots of pictures and post them on the 'net somewhere.

Joe
JAJansenJr@gmail.com

On 10/2/07, Calvin H. Gray <405geezer@thegateway.net> wrote:
> My wife, Linda and I are at home after spending six nights at Philmont
> during our 8th all-adult Autumn Adventure at Scouting's Paradise. Time
> spent at Philmont is great anytime but a week in the back country when
> there are only a few crews is exceptional. Additional information about
> the Autumn Adventure program is here:
> http://www.scouting.org/philmont/camping/season/autumn.html
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> As far as I could tell, there were only three crews at Philmont last week.
> Our crew, one from Round Rock TX and one from the Dallas area. Bill
> Sheehan came down from New Jersey to hike with the Dallas crew. Meeting
> Doug Latimer and several other members of this e-mail list was nice too.
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> We saw several bears, and a group of bear hunters on horseback with a pack
> of dogs, in the Ponil area. Getting in our tents while camped at Ponil
> and knowing that bears were nearby was somewhat scary but we made sure
> that smellables were in the metal boxes that Philmont staffers use during
> the summer. BTW, Philmont is closed to camping this week due to the Elk
> season.
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> Our crew of 13 visited Ponil, Rich Cabins, Indian Writings, Miranda and a
> couple of other camps in the area around Miranda. Our guide was Cindy
> Oursler, a Philmont veteran of five summers, from Kansas. Cindy worked at
> Rich Cabins this past summer so getting to harvest and eat the corn and
> squash she planted during the summer was a highlight for her. Our crew of
> Texans plus one California computer geek didn't make too many "Dorothy"
> comments to Cindy as we wanted to stay in her good graces.
>
> The weather was excellent and 8 members of our crew climbed Baldy last
> Wednesday. I now have a new hero as one of the guys making the climb is
> age 75.
>
> I'm pleased to report that Mark Liechty pretty much behaved himself
> throughout the week, probably because he was driving a rental car with a
> Texas license plate.
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> I'm also happy to report that Cajun John LeBlanc (aka Obi-Wan Coon___)
> does indeed use an external frame backpack and that he doesn't wear Crocs.
> John does like to cook and he can talk quite a bit too.
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> Before arriving at Philmont, Linda and I spent two nights at the Casa Del
> Gavilan, the bed & breakfast near the Tooth of Time. At the Casa, we
> visited with Jimmy Moore, a long-time friend from Waco, and met Steve
> Taylor, Scout Executive for the Daniel Boone Council in Ashville NC.
> After visiting with him, I'm of the opinion the BSA would be a whole lot
> better off if we had more SEs like Steve.
>
> In case you haven't heard, we have an impending medical crisis in the
> Austin metro area. It seems that almost all area chiropractors and
> orthopedists are booked solid for the remainder of the year due to knee
> and hip injuries occurring as thousands of Texas Longhorn fans have jumped
> off the UT football band wagon. If OU wins the game this Saturday, we'll
> probably have to declare a full-fledged medical emergency. :-)
>
> YiS,
> --
> Calvin H. Gray
> Scoutmaster, Troop 405
> Associate Advisor, Venturing Crew 405
> Georgetown, Texas
> I used to be an Owl (WM-62-2-98 @ Philmont)
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Received on Tue Oct 2 18:21:13 2007