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PHILNEWS MAY 29TH, 2014 YEARS OF BANQUET ISSUE 76 PHILMONT Return to Scouting Paradise Sharing the John Clark did we help you meet your General Manager/Director expectations? Journey of High Adventure, Unit 1 e goal of our management sta is to say “yes” to both of Welcome to God’s Country, these questions. Please share with Mark Anderson better known as Philmont! For us your ideas of how we can do Director of Program, many of you, this is your rst time this bigger and better, I would Unit 2 in the Land of Enchantment. For appreciate your feedback. others, this is a return to Scouting is summer you will be Welcome everyone! paradise. Regardless of your job challenged and tested. You will roughout the spring or title, the goal is still the same: probably get wet, cold, lose some as applications are reviewed to deliver the safest and best and letters of employment are outdoor program for our Scouting “Regardless of your job prepared, I am always impressed families. Our promise is to “deliver with the tremendous amount wilderness adventures that last or title, the goal is still the of talent that each of you will a lifetime.” You are the most same: to deliver the safest share during the summer. e important part of delivering that and best outdoor program combination of all of your talents promise. and passion will ensure that we Every summer, when I sit for our Scouting families.” are able to ful ll the expectations Samantha Waidler/Photography Manager 2011 down to write this, I have tried to of each participant both at the say the same thing di erent ways. sleep, be sore from things you Philmont Training Center and in sometime in the early part of July. to an expected 22,400 during the It always comes out the same. have never done and have more the various backcountry camping We ended 2013 with a total 2014 camping season. People come to Philmont for blisters than you have had in your programs. of 987,375, just 12,625 short of 1 John Updike said, “You cannot various reasons, I am sure you life. However, my guess is within is summer we will welcome million. Our summer numbers help but learn more as you take can identify with that. As I watch a few months of returning back the 1 millionth backcountry have grown from 196 in 1939 the world into your hands. Take it our participants come and go, to college and the real world, you participant! is should happen during the rst camping season Continued on page 5 I o en wonder if we met their will forget all of that. Philmont has expectations? Since you are on a way of making the bad days go our frontline of program delivery, Continued on page 5 Staff Opening Program Detailed Schedule 1:30 p.m. Sta gather at Greensward of the Villa Philmonte near the pond; please bring sunscreen, rain gear and a water bottle 2 p.m. Sta Opening Welcome with leadership Introductions and “welcome back” activities 3:15 p.m. Divide into assigned 25 sta groups for small group discussion 5:45 Ringing of the bell at the Opening Sta Dinner at Camper Dining Hall 6 p.m. Opening sta dinner at the Camper Dining Hall 7 p.m. Chapel services in the following traditions: Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and LDS 8 p.m. Gather at Baldy Pavilion at the SSSAC for keynote speaker Bob Birkby, author of the new BSA Field Book 9:15 p.m. Music and fellowship at Baldy Pavilion Samantha Waidler/Photography Manager 2011 2 | PhilNews Thursday, May 29, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org NEWS AND May 29-June 11 Thursday, 29 Friday, 30 Saturday, 31 Sunday, 1 Monday, 2 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 4 PHOTO TEAM 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. SSSAC Blood Horse Intro to Leave No Aims and Living History A Fish Experience PTC Bualo Drive department/ Trace at Baldy Methods at PTC Town Hall at Baldy Pavilion BBQ at PTC program counselor Pavilion Assembly Hall Gathering at Baldy Greensward NPS Manager 8:30 a.m. of western lore Pavilion 11:15 a.m. Aims and camps cookout at 7 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Old Mill Tour; 7 p.m. Bryan Hayek Methods at PTC Mark Anderson’s Driver Training Intro to Leave No meet at Welcome PTC Country Assembly Hall house at PTC Assembly Trace at Baldy Living History Center Dance at PTC PhilNews Editor Hall Pavilion (second Skills Day at Assembly Hall Amanda Push 1:30 p.m. opportunity) Rayado 7 p.m. All sta gather on Camp Director’s PhilNews Writers Villa Lawn Campre at Ranger Rendevous Closing Campre at Beaubien Scott Allen Area Dallas Elmore Thursday, 5 Friday, 6 Saturday, 7 Sunday, 8 Monday, 9 Tuesday, 10 Wednesday, 11 Kyle Nutter 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. Late arriving 10 a.m. Late arriving Emet Ramirez-Blood Scatter Day One Scatter Day Two Scatter Day ree First crews arrive sta training Valle Vidal Camp sta training (conducted Meetings at Ring (conducted Photography Manager 7 p.m. 8:30 a.m. CHQ Sta Dining Monday through Place Monday through e month of May is one of my favorite times of the year. e Erin Irwin Driver Training Aims and Hall opens for Backcountry Wednesdays Wednesdays at PTC Assembly Methods at PTC supper opens for hiking throughout the throughout the weather has changed, the leaves are Hall Assembly Hall summer) Late arriving summer) coming out, but most importantly, Photographers 8 p.m. Tooth of Time sta training the Philmont Sta begin to arrive. Kaitlyn Chaballa 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Sta Snack Bar Traders opens for (conducted We get to see friends from Morgan Court Ranger Campre Telluride Film Event season at regular Monday through previous years and we get to meet new people that are lled with Christine Henri at Closing Festival at hours Wednesdays Campre area Hardesty Casa throughout the that amazing enthusiasm that will Cassidy Johnson Central summer) make this year the best ever. You Stephen Maurer each have numerous talents that John Mitchell will be put to work to bring about Bethany Nilson a great Philmont experience for all the people who come here this summer. ose talents, along with Photo Lab Lead Useful Philmont Acronyms Fire Level Warning your skills and enthusiasm, are Imara Chew what will make this summer the When one visits Philmont for the rst time, it is easy to recognize that the Attention all sta! Despite having rain the past “wilderness experience that lasts a Photo Lab Techs Ranch has a unique vocabulary. For those visiting or working at the ranch for lifetime” for our participants. several days, Philmont experienced a below A few weeks ago, I had the Collin Anderson the rst time, it may be a little confusing at rst, but fortunately is easy to pick up on. Here is a guide to Philmont’s most commonly used acronyms and lingo. average snow and rainfall over the past winter. A fantastic opportunity to travel Peter Friendland few re restrictions are currently in place across to Cusco, Peru with a medical ACD: Assistant Camp Director OATC: Order of the Arrow Trail humanitarian expedition. We Marketing Manager ACR: Associate Chief Ranger Crew Trek the ranch. As a result, sta and participants are spent ten days traveling to remote Baldy: Baldy Pavillion (for PJ: Phillips Junction Jessica Micheli prohibited from doing the following: villages in the mountains of Peru events), Mt. Baldy, or Baldy Camp PhilSAR: Philmont Search and to give medical CD: Camp Director Rescue and dental care Marketing Staff Chief: Chief Ranger PTC: Philmont Training Center • Setting o reworks to people who, in Dominic Baima CHQ: Camping Headquarters RO: Ranger Oce • Smoking except for in designated areas many cases, do not have access Cito: Cimmaroncito ROCS: Roving Outdoor • Making crew or sta campres Lead Videographer Cons: Conservation Conservation School to that care. It GIS: Geographical Information RT: Ranger Trainer • Starting open res was truly a life- Gabe Marchetti changing experience. I was able to Systems SSSAC: Silver Sage Sta be part of a group that served this HAB: High Adventure Base Activities Center Videographer ank you for complying with our re restrictions humble and grateful people. HOD: Head of Dean Swapbox: A place to trade Connor Black in order to keep Philmont a safe place. I was given hugs from HOmE: Heaven on Earth unwanted food numerous people who wanted I-Camp: Intercamp mail TC: Training Crew to thank me for being there to IW: Indian Writings TOTT: Tooth of Time Traders We also ask that you keep in mind the importance help. I was again able to learn the NAYLE: National Advanced TP: Trading Post importance of serving others. Is that Youth Leadership Experience e Val: the Valle Vidal of conserving water, especially during this drought not what we do here at Philmont? NPS: News and Photo Services Valle: the Valle Vidal period. Be aware of how much water you use and I hope that you constantly remind PhilmontScoutRanch.org Thursday, May 29, 2014 PhilNews | 3 A Job Well Done Chris Sawyer and two advisors made me feel Associate Director of completely at home. I wrote about “A few weeks ago, Program, Unit ??? being condent in knowing that I had done my job well. e closing I had the fantastic line of the entry read, “I’ve got the opportunity to travel Welcome to Philmont! best job in the world.” Working here has taught me a ese are all things that I hope to Cusco, Peru with a great deal, but my most important you will have the opportunity to medical, humanitarian learning experience was with my feel, both at Philmont and when Katy Mooney/Photography Manager 2012 rst crew as a Ranger.