[Philmont] Increased Participation

It's not a rumor. The Philmont administration definitely was starting to
plan over the past summer for increasing the number of participants next
summer. I believe the figure was about 15%, as someone said. This would
amount to about 50 participants per day, or roughly five crews. There is
concern among the staff about whether the land and the program can handle
the increase. The executive staff seem to believe it can be handled. They
want to make the Philmont experience available to as many Scouts as
possible, and you really can't fault them for that. I imagine you're
correct that this is why Fran is-- at least-- discouraging early arrivals.
There are some days over the summer with a low crew load, but there are many
others when the base camp tent cities are bursting at the seams.

Doug Marquis
Asst Mgr. CHQ Activites Dept. 2003-2006
(We run the Welcome Center, among other things.)

P.S.-- How're you doing, Jim VanH?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Schwing" <lou@troop288.org>
To: "Philmont List Member" <Philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:04 PM
Subject: [Philmont] Increased Participation

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> On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:18 PM, JVH2099@aol.com wrote:
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>> In a message dated 9/26/2006 4:30:04 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
>> bschaettle@msn.com writes:
>> In a recent email from Fran regarding the payment that's due on October
>> 1st, she seemed to imply NO early arrivals next summer:
>> We heard that Philmont wants to increase participation by about 15% next
>> summer. That may be the reason for no early arrivals. Things will be
>> getting a bit crowded in tent city.
>
> The train from Los Angeles to Raton only arrives in the evening, so you
> *have* to arrive a day early. In 2004, it wasn't a big deal for us to
> stay that night at Tent City, although they did tell us that if there
> weren't any tents, we would have to pitch our own. There was plenty of
> space to do that, so I imagine it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
>
> It was nice to sleep in those roomy tents with a mattress after our trek
> though....
>
> Lou
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