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Philnews — Issue Seven: July 21, 2006 Issue Seven July 21, 2006 E-commerce . 3 Water Tasting . 4 Irish Cowboy. 6 Chaplain’s Corner . 26 PhilNews 2 Miles From Nowhere... Philmont BY BENJAMIN FOOTE News & Photo Philnews Manager Service Staff Ode to the Food Wall Editor-in-Chief John van Dreese O Great Wall of Food The original trail snack, Good and Old We sing you songs of praise Fruit of the vine, dried by the sun NPS Manager Your generous abundance knows no Fruit of the earth, released from their Stuart Sinclair bounds shells O bountiful cornucopia Fruit of heaven, coated in a colorful PhilNews Manager Of tasty trail food treats candy Benjamin Foote All mingled together; also in Tropical Your mighty ramparts protect us PhilNews Staff From hunger and from boredom Perfectly shaped for backpack or pocket Angelo Pompeo For standing in your Presence Bars of all kinds, flavors and sizes Kate Shipley Is both shopping trip and pilgrimage For the mojo, for the cliffs Eric Stann A simultaneously spiritual and nutritional For the brash Marine yell adventure A Fort Knox vault, glittering, You open Photo Manager Kimberly Banzhaf When the cock crows And in the grandest days When the lark sings Batches of cookies But slumber claims me still Soft as new snow on fluffs of cloud You are there for us always Emulsified and hydrogenated Table of Contents Part of this complete breakfast To perfection 2 Miles from Nowhere When Lines 1 and 2 fall short And at Summer's end 3 Feature And neither blue plate nor white We thrifty chipmunks flock to you Can appease hunger or thirst Stuffing their zip-lock cheeks 10 World News Your bounty is Eve's pomegranate With nuts, berries, cookies and bars, The sweet ambrosial nectar of the gods Storing up for a long, Real World winter. 14 Sports Shelf after shelf, box after box of treasures 16 Entertainment All given most charitably A many-branches Tree of Life 17 Concert Calendar A many-handed goddess of bounty An all you can eat trail food buffet 26 Chaplain’s Corner A foil-packaged scintillating rainbow Please be aware that the views A tropical fruit-basket orchard expressed in this column do not PhilNews is a staff Of granulated electrolytes necessarily represent those of newsletter published The half-strength foundation PhilNews, Philmont Scout Ranch, or the Boy Scouts of America. weekly by Of backcountry miracle tonics Philmont Scout Ranch. Crackers aplenty, and the cherry on top PhilNews Packets of squeezable golden delight On the cover: Mark Anderson contemplates the fla- News & Photo Service Jalapeño and cheddar vor of Pueblano’s water. Philmont Scout Ranch No need to pick favorites The cheesy blood flowing through PHOTO BY MARGARET HEDDERMAN 47 Caballo Rd. Philmont's veins NPS Photographer Cimarron, NM 87714 Feature July 21, 2006 3 Trading Post website Continues to be a Hit BY ANGELO POMPEO according to off-site sales manager PhilNews Staff Debbie Fernandez. Every day at the Trading Post, regardless of Crews never even thought of buying their the season, is busy, action-packed, and gear at Philmont when I became director somewhat stressful. in 1996,said O’Neill At the same time, the people who love . "We sold patches and souvenirs, out of Philmont from across the country and date stoves, and stuff like that. Soon after around the world can sit back in their paja- I took over, Mark Anderson and I sat mas, surf the web while they should be down and decided where we should go. working, or use any free minute they have We realized that only one of the items on to log on and get all the gear, patches, and Philmont's equipment list could actually souvenirs they need. be found here at the trading post. Each morning in the warehouse begins "Then we built the new store and ware- with sorting through about 50 web orders house that r really helped. We now sell all rom the day before. The Trading Post the equipment list items in the store, and staff then begins finding, sorting, and we carry everything a scout could need packaging the orders before they are for a 10 day trek. Then the website came shipped all over the country and occa- along and made even easier for customers Debbie Fernandez sorts through the sionally to a foreign country. to get the things they need." day’s mail orders in the warehouse. lenge for me, but it should be an easy "We even got one from Japan" said Lynnae The website's designer and manager, transition for the next person. Chavez the warehouse's mail order assistant. Michael Sutter, resigned on good terms Friday, July 7th pursuing similar work The Tooth of Time Traders hope to contin- "When we went live on the web in August with a company in Ft. Lauderdale, of 2004, we didn't have the beautiful, fully ue their booming web sales by adding fea- Florida. He is largely responsible for the tures such as a virtual pack. furnished website I dreamed of," said attractiveness and success of the site. He Shelley O'Neill, Trading Post Director. said the system he left is mostly self-suf- "The customer could click on any of the "But we went with what we had and it has ficient but can't just be left alone. pockets and find out what we offer to fill slowly grown into what it is today. each one," said O'Neill. " It also teaches “They way I left it, the site will be fine them how to pack and they could get Last year, toothoftimetraders.com brought for two or three months while they hire in nearly $250,000. This year they are everything they need from us. They could a replacement,” said Sutter. “Learning even buy the pack if they wanted." already nearing the quarter million dollar the new system was the biggest chal- mark. The site made $70,000 in June alone PhilNews Feature 4 Water Tasting BY KATE SHIPLEY Philnews Staff Should you hike on to the next camp to fill up your water bottle? Or is this as good as it gets? Water is a tasteless, odorless and col- orless substance … in its pure form, but here at Philmont, the situation necessitates chemical additions to the water supply to make it safe to drink. No one wants giardia. Therefore, to answer your questions, the PhilNews conducted an independ- ent, unbiased taste testing of 10 back- country water samples last Friday. Jackie Clark, John Van Dreese, Steve Willis and Mark Anderson (profiled Mark Anderson and Steve Willis joke during the water tasting. on facing page) were chosen for their PHOTO BY KIMBERLY BANZHAF, Photo Manager known expertise in the area of irriga- tion, hydration and moisture issues to The judges deliberated individually has since come into question. be the judging panel. and then rated each camp's water. Carson Meadows won an Honorable They then chose an overall winner. Mention. The camps were chosen at random, and the tasting was done blind, which Surprisingly, Black Mountain was The PhilNews thanks the chaplains for means the judges did not know which their number one choice for its providing the cups and the food wall for providing the palette cleansers. camp's water they were tasting. crisp, clean taste, although the sta- tus of their sample's potable-ness The Scorecard: Comments and Ratings from the Judges (scores out of five) 4 - Black Mountain “Best I’ve lived through.” Steve Willis 3.75 - Carson Meadows “Subtle bouquet, slightly campy taste.” John Van Dreese 3.75 - Clear Creek “Tastes like a Flintstones vitamin was in it.” Jackie Clark 3.75 - Pueblano “Hike on to the next water source.” Steve Willis “Refreshing, the perfect apertif for tropical GORP.” John Van Dreese 3 - French Henry “I think this water had legs in it.” Jackie Clark “Used to anesthetize campers.” Steve Willis 2.75 - Ponil “I don’t know if it’s the cup that tastes bad or if a diaper was in the bottle.” Jackie Clark 2.75 - Fish Camp “What can I say? It’s wet.” John Van Dreese “Don’t go near a magnet after drinking this water. Avoid lightning storms.” Steve Willis 2.5 - Clark’s Fork “Neutral-- would be great with half-strength Gatorade and ibuprofen.” Mark Anderson 2.5 - Harlan “Slight chlorine taste. I feel that this sample will be pure and great for washing clothes.” Mark Anderson “Nails. Rusty nails. Very rusty nails.” Steve Willis 2 - Cimarroncito “Certain piquant taste. Aftertaste to kill for.” Steve Willis Feature July 21, 2006 5 Meet the Judges Jackie Clark Mark Anderson Backcountry Manager Director of Program Qualifications: Qualifications: "I am made up mostly "Thirsty! Water is of water, thus I am always my second an expert." choice when Dr. Pepper is not avail- able." John Van Dreese Steve Willis Associate Director Activities Manager of Program Qualifications: Qualifications: "I have been drink- "I've drunk water all ing water since birth my life. A big fan." and am a very good swimmer." PHOTOS BY KIMBERLY BANZHAF AND MARGARET HEDDERMAN, NPS Staff PhilNews Feature 6 From Ireland to Cimarron: Patrick Kelly BY ERIC STANN Scouting Alimnui in Ireland compared As you were growing up in Ireland, Philnews Staff to here. So people who leave Scouting were the Boy Scouts one of the in Ireland don't really help out in the major activites there for the youth? Patrick Kelly, a program counselor at funding aspects compared to what I see I don't know about the youth in gener- Ponil from Waterford, Ireland, is one of here.
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