Its getting closer. 4 months and counting.   Our final payment has been sent in.

We met to have the scouts fill out the trek survey to get an idea of what activities they feel are most important.  Now the adults will sift through the treks and select 8-10 that fit their choices.  We will have one meeting for the scouts to rank the selected treks and that will be our final list.

Its hard to believe that march 13th we will know which trek we will be doing.

Now if the snow and ice would go away, we can get to the serious training.  The backpack is clean and I know the weights I will start with and add to.

We still need to figure out this years t-shirt design, finalize scout positions for the trek and tent partners.

It’s all coming together.

Looking forward to another great trek.  It will be my 6th trek.  Hopefully the second time over Baldy and and see some camps I haven’t seen before.

A great first meeting for planning for our 2018 Philmont trip.  Lots of good information about the trip, transportation, explaining the cost and the trip itself.  Went over all of the gear, needed, optional and crew.

Lots more to decide upon at meeting 2 such as scout leadership positions, t-shirt designs, the activity survey for the scouts to fill out and start looking at last years treks.  Hopefully, they wont be making major changes to the treks for 2018.

 

It’s going to be another great trip!

We are under a year to go for our next trip to Philmont.

Next week we have our first planning meeting.  Then it starts to get real!

We have 11 going, but still have room for one more.

Oh yea!!! we received the email that we passed through the lottery and have a 12 day trek for 2018. It’s going to be another great adventure.
Not sure if I will be going on this trip or just helping to plan this time.

Looking forward to working Jamboree 2017, then we will see about what happens for 2018.

Hope you all have a great year!!!