[Philmont] Increased Participation

Steve, your question is a little outside my area of knowledge. I know that
the Logistics department does keep track of those kinds of things, at least
informally. Just anecdotally, though, it seems as though the higher
itinerary numbers are chosen just as often as the lower numbers. I believe
there can be two crews starting each day on any one of the approximately 30
itineraries, and there are about 30 crews arriving on an average day. So,
most of the itineraries must be "taken" every day. Probably others here
will have more info.

Doug Marquis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Mac" <oldbatteryman725@comcast.net>
To: "Philmont List Member" <Philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:39 PM
Subject: [Philmont] Increased Participation

> Doug,
> is there any information on the treks of which treks were asked for most
> and the treks that were used the most? Do the higher #ed treks not see
> the traffic that the lower #ed treks see? Was there any treks not chosen?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve MacIntyre
> Troop 777
> Hermitage, TN
> Philmont Advisor 02-32NFM2, 03-23, 05-32, 06-32
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "doug marquis" <dmarquis1@comcast.net>
> To: "Philmont List Member" <Philmont@troop47.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:30 PM
> Subject: [Philmont] Increased Participation
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>> 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
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:18 PM, JVH2099@aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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