[Philmont] Albuquerque to Philmont

Greetings,

We took the train from Raleigh this past summer. It turned into a
diaster due to late trains and poor service. I hope ours was the
exception and not the rule.

Another thing to watch out for is the boundry on the regional travel.
The boundry has appeared to vary over the years.

We went to Santa Fe and used Leading the Way Tours,
leadingthewaytours@sbcglobal.net to get from Santa Fe to Philmont.
They operate vans and this worked well for us since we were a small
group.

Jimmy

Donald S. Roberts wrote:

>>From: Stephen Readett
>>We are discussing taking the Train to Albuquerque, instead of
>>Raton,
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>Have you considered using the train to get back to Raton?
>I get the impression you are coming from the east and will
>go through Raton to Alb. If you look at this alternative,
>bear in mind that the scheduled time into Raton means you
>cannot check in on your arrival day. So if you have a trek
>date of, say, July 2, you will want to take the train from
>Alb to Raton on July 1 and spend a night there (maybe at
>CHQ) with checkin the next day.
>
>We've never done any pre- or post-trek activities as just
>about everything you could add on we can do
>around here, so we don't see a lot of added value to it.
>We have whitewater nearby, lots of peaks, the Sierra Nevadas,
>etc. I can certainly see folks from the east having a
>different set of priorities.
>
>We did look into Blue Sky and were very impressed with them
>due to their close connection with scouts. However, we just
>couldn't see turning an $800 adventure into a $1200 adventure
>that only adds what we do anyway as part of our regular troop
>calendar.
>
>Regards
>Don Roberts
>05
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Received on Tue Sep 26 10:38:37 2006