[Philmont] autumn adventure

bill55@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> I may have posted previously what I feel strongly , that the most
>> difficult part of an AA trek is recruiting. It is so hard to get 6 or
>> 7 Scouters from your Council to commit. Others may not have had this
>> problem and good for them and their council. You already know that
>> there were only 3 crews on the Ranch for AA during the week of
>> September 22-29. 214 square miles and only 3 crews. Our guide said he
>> only had one other crew to guide in October, before he is off thru
>> Christmas.
>>
> #######################
>
> In our hike from Miranda to Baldy we came across a crew from Ohio (or
> maybe Chicago, it's all the same). Amazing that even with only a
> handful of people out there we still came across each other.
> I am camping this weekend with a Don Roberts troop in Southern CA and
> for lunch will be having PhilFood. I know I will not be at Philmont
> because we are starting at 12,000 feet and seeing how close to 14,000
> feet we can get given the time constraints to get the boys home for
> School on Monday.

The key difference being that we have real mountains in Kalifornia as
opposed to the foothills of New Mexico.

> OK, damage done, going camping now.
>
> Mark
> (Who enjoyed meeting John, Doug and Bill and would gladly do so again)
>

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Received on Fri Oct 12 13:39:33 2007