[Philmont] Camp Daniel Boone Treks?

Dan Rogers is the camp director at CDB in NC and has hiked the AT and across
the USA and written a book about it called America One Step At A Time. My
troop 503 in vero beach FL has been to CDB for routine summer camp in june
2006 and june 2007. the base camp experience was outstanding. It rains in
the NC mountains.The other leaders and myself went to a 2 hour class lead by
the new high adventure director, his name I have forgotten, the course was
excellent, he was organized, insightful, knowledgeable, and seemed like a
pretty good guy. It rains in the NC mountains.He was hired by Dan Rogers who
I believe sets a much higher standard than existed in previous years
according to those who had been to the camp several years running. We did
not do the high adventure hike so I cannot comment first had on the
experience. I can tell you there is little or no program on the hiking
treks, the mixed treks with climbing, etc sound fun though. It rains in the
NC mountains. It sounded like a good experience and I think should be viewed
different from Philmont as there is not an emphasis on program as much. Did
I mention it rains in the NC mountains.

Kirk Maes
Vero Beach FL T 503
Phil of the future 62608
and not to let my brothers out do me
Isle Royal NP 70, 72

On 10/26/07, Dr. Bob Klein <drbob@troop111.org> wrote:
>
> "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 Sat Oct 27 08:43:50 2007