[Philmont] Camp Daniel Boone Treks?

"FWIW." We did a variant of the Paul Runion Expedition in 1994,
covering roughly 60 miles in 6 days (I think). This was our primer for
Philmont 1995. It rained every day. The backpacking was in the Shining
Rock and Pisgah National Forest, and was quite challenging (the first
day was absolutely brutal). We had a guide the entire time, and he was
quite good, hitting it off very well with the Scouts in the Crew. There
was little in the way of program, but the backpacking basically took the
bulk of each day anyway. We had a pretty good time, but I will add that
we were apparently the only Crew that had a pretty good time - virtually
everyone else (upon our return to the basecamp) complained mightily
about just about everything, to the point where I wondered if our Crew
had somehow occupied a parallel universe for 5 days. At least 2 - 3
Crews left their Crew gear piled in mud-puddles on the lawn outside the
expedition headquarters, and just left - forfeiting their damage
deposits and leaving the Rangers and basecamp staff to have to sort,
clean, and dry it out. Reading some of the other comments on the List,
I am guessing we had an unusually competent Ranger. I remember he was
very impressed that we wanted to do the toughest trek he had, and so he
bought into it pretty hard himself.

Remember, this was 13 years and 2 1/2 months ago. Don't extrapolate too
hard.

- Dr. Bob

Joe Johnstone wrote:
> Waited a little to long to sign up for the council 2008 contigent, and
> they lost some spots as well. Looking for some alternatives, and have
> seen some interesting treks on Camp Daniel Boone near Asheville.
>
> Anyone have any experiences with these week long treks?
>
>
> Thanks!

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Received on Fri Oct 26 16:28:45 2007