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PhilmontScoutRanch.org PHILNEWS TH JULY 8 , 2016 ISSUE FIVE Alex Cenci/PhilNews Ponil PCs Joe Duffield, left, The and Emily Engelbrecht, right, share a moment story of with Ponil Head Cook Erich Schick as they help a crew to prepare Suzannah Evans breakfast on Wednesday, Staff Writer June 15, 2016. “I came on Brand new bright blue Nalgenes two treks here, and I hung on silver carabiners off of just fell in love backpacks. The water bottles with the place swung side to side as the members and I love to of the Crew 623 M from Southern cook,” said Schick. “So California slung on their heavy it’s really a packs. This group of young no-brainer, to Scouts set out, knowing nothing come to some more about Philmont than what place I love to do what I their Lead Advisor had told them. love.” Lead by Former Ranger Dr. Skyler Ballard/ Stephen Evans, the troop has been PhilNews preparing for over a year. Anticipation was high as Crew 623 M-1 boarded the bus that Cooking up a deliciously successful summer would take them to the Lover’s Leap Turn Around. Ranger Joe Eleanor Hasenbeck there working with Scouts, but orders. People often appear in “There’s no set cookbook or Newhall gave an exhilarating bus Staff Writer I’m lucky because I’m literally camp without notice, bringing recipes that we have to follow,” tour pointing out popular Philmont working on something that is more mouths to feed. said Jack Sutter, an Assistant Cook attractions. After arriving at the going to fuel someone. I take a lot “It makes you more creative. at Clark’s Fork. It’s not your grandmother’s turnaround, Newhall taught the of pride in that.” You have to work with what For each of the cooks, making cooking, but backcountry eats are boys how to make their pack line pretty darn close. Backcountry But preparing food in the you’ve got,” Schick said. “It’s the food is something they’ve always magically disappear and the basics cooks make the soul food that backcountry comes with a different wild west. Crazy stuff happens. enjoyed. Schick has spent years keeps staff thriving at Beaubien, set of challenges than cooking in a In large part, the cooks also between cafes, bar kitchens and of mapping and trail etiquette. The Cimarroncito, Clark’s Fork and restaurant or kitchen at home. It enjoy a certain freedom to prepare food trucks. In the fall, he works Scouts were lead by the qualified Ponil. can be more difficult to keep food whatever they like. They are at an upscale restaurant near his trifecta of Crew Leader Brendan “It’s the quickest way to fresh. Propane refrigerators and the kings of their kitchens, and home in Columbus, Ohio. Daly, Chaplain’s Aid Connor somebody’s happiness,” said Erich stoves can be finicky. Many spices, their reign is only limited by Jonathan Phipps, Assistant Cook Tuschla, and Wilderness Pledge Schick, Head Cook at Ponil. “The specialty fruits and vegetables dietary restrictions and ingredient at Beaubien, got his start cooking Guia Sam Evans. PCs and everyone else are out aren’t available on commissary availability. Continued on page 3 Continued on page 9 2 | PhilNews Friday, July 8, 2016 PhilmontScoutRanch.org July 8-July 28 NEWS AND Friday, 8 Saturday, 9 Sunday, 10 Monday, 11 Tuesday, 12 Wednesday, 13 Thursday, 14 Olympic Event 5 p.m. Brat Day! 8 p.m. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Taos Plaza Live PhilNews Deadline Dodgeball- Baldy Haircuts in 8 p.m. Taos Pueblo Pow Taos Pueblo Pow Taos Pueblo Pow Root beer floats- PHOTO TEAM Pavillion SSSAC Wow Wow Wow PTC Western Night ($15) SSSAC Kitchen Friday, 15 Saturday, 16 Sunday, 17 Monday, 18 Tuesday, 19 Wednesday, 20 Thursday, 21 Marketing Manager 5 p.m. Olympic Event 7:30 p.m. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Taos Plaza Live Bryan Hayek PhilNews Deadline Full Moon Williams Haircuts in Lake Hike SSSAC 8 p.m. NPS Manager Hungry Hungry ($15) Hippos Open Mic Night- Cassidy Johnson Baldy Pavillion Brat Day! Friday, 22 Saturday, 23 Sunday, 24 Monday, 25 Tuesday, 26 Wednesday, 27 Thursday, 28 PhilNews Editor Hannah McCarthy 5:30 p.m. Fiesta de Taos Fiesta de Taos Christmas in July PTC Western Night 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Movie Night Philmont 5K- Haircuts in Front of SSSAC SSSAC PhilNews Writers ($15) Taos Plaza Live Suzannah Evans Fiesta de Taos Eleanor Hasenbeck Photography Manager Submissions to the Tyler Sanders PhilNews are welcome any time! If you would like a chance to contribute to the PhilNews,please send your articles, story ideas,and/ Photographers Event Descriptions or creative writings to the PhilNews Editor at Drew Castellaw Alex Cenci [email protected]. Skyler Ballard Activities Staff Clay Helfrick Taos Plaza Live and practices. A pow wow is the Deadline: Saturdays @ 5p.m. Gabriel Scarlett A summer concert series, common fiber which draws Native Lex Selig unsurprisingly located in the Taos American people together. It is a Submit your content for Madelynne Scales Plaza. Throughout the summer, time for sharing with old friends Issue 6 by July 9 there is a free concert every and making new friends; a time for Thursday night from 6 p.m. to 8 singing and dancing. It is a time Photo Lab Lead p.m. for trading; trading craft goods and Sean McElligott Alabama Shakes trading songs. Playing at Kit Carson Park in Fiesta de Taos Philmont Olympics Photo Lab Techs Taos on August 6.Tickets: $60 in As they have for centuries, the Activities Staff and the horse department will compete with the backcountry Nathaniel Aron advance, $65 day of; Doors: 6:30 good people of Taos celebrate p.m.; Show: 7:30 p.m. the Feast of St. Anne and St. department. Each team will have a Philmont Olympics Update Liam Inbody Taos Pueblo Pow Wow James. The annual event, popularly liaison that will be responsible for Indian Country is made up referred to as “The Taos Fiestas,” coordinating with Activities. The Conservation Tetrathlon The four teams and their liaisons of many tribal nations, bands, allows the local population to put Lead Marketing Events were held at Rocky are: Specialist villages, and pueblos, each with aside their labor for two days and Mountain Scout Camp and • Backcountry and Horse Alexander Bohlen their own traditional tribal beliefs bask in the leisure of the holy days. included Fuel Canister Sledge, Department-Jimmy Fritze UTM Signpost Installation, Rock (Backcountry Manager) Rolling and Work Crew Sprint. • Base Camp and PTC- Marketing Media Staff Scores and placement updates to Savannah Moore (Security) come. • Conservation- Nathan Thomas Officer The next philmont Olympic Coney (ADC for event will be the Backcountry Conservationists) Lead Videographer Triathalon. Events will include • Rangers- Will Suggs Kreable Young Mountain Biking, Tomahawk (Associate Chief Ranger) throwing and a timed wall traverse behind the SSSAC. If you want to represent your Videographer department in the Olympiad, Claire Ficke Teams contact your team Liaison. For the purposes of this event, all base camp departments and the PTC will be grouped together, PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, July 8, 2016 PhilNews | 3 Continued from page one: Cooking up Friday, 8 Saturday, 9 Sunday, 10 Monday, 11 Tuesday, 12 Wednesday, 13 Thursday, 14 a deliciously successful summer Olympic Event 5 p.m. Brat Day! 8 p.m. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Taos Plaza Live for his family at large reunions. Cook as his fifth choice on his PhilNews Deadline Dodgeball- Baldy Haircuts in 8 p.m. Sutter learned to prepare meals as Seasonal Staff Application-- Taos Pueblo Pow Taos Pueblo Pow Taos Pueblo Pow Pavillion SSSAC Root beer floats- he cooked for himself while his unsure of where he’d like to work, Wow Wow Wow PTC Western Night ($15) SSSAC Kitchen parents were away. he added two more positions Their hard work in the kitchen beneath the three blanks included Friday, 15 Saturday, 16 Sunday, 17 Monday, 18 Tuesday, 19 Wednesday, 20 Thursday, 21 comes from a love for the job, the on the application. As a first year people and the place. staff member, now there’s no 5 p.m. Olympic Event 7:30 p.m. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Taos Plaza Live “It’s really a no brainer,” Schick place he’d rather be. PhilNews Deadline Full Moon Williams Haircuts in said. “Come to a place I love to do “I get to make good food for Lake Hike SSSAC what I love. It’s like a vacation.” great people,” Phipps said. 8 p.m. Hungry Hungry ($15) Phipps preferenced Backcountry Hippos Open Mic Night- Baldy Pavillion Brat Day! Friday, 22 Saturday, 23 Sunday, 24 Monday, 25 Tuesday, 26 Wednesday, 27 Thursday, 28 5:30 p.m. Fiesta de Taos Fiesta de Taos Christmas in July PTC Western Night 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Movie Night Philmont 5K- Haircuts in Front of SSSAC SSSAC ($15) Taos Plaza Live Fiesta de Taos Clarks Fork Cook Jack Sutter lays out homemade croutons onto an oven sheet to bake for a few minutes on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at Clarks Fork. Drew Castellaw/PhilNews Jonathan Phipps, Assistant Cook at Beaubien, rings the dinner bell Tuesday, June 21, 2016 on the front porch. After a few dings, Phipps screams out that it’s time for dinner. Madelynne Scales/PhilNews Backcountry staff prepare jambalaya and croutons out of left over hot dog buns. Clarks Fork Cook Jack Sutter said one of the challenges of being a Backcountry Cook is figuring out how to repurpose leftovers.