News You Can Use-Mark Your Calendars for Our First Training Event

Dear Fellow Trekkers and Parents,

​We are in the formative stages for planning for our first training event at King's Mountain State Park (SC) on Saturday, April 16th and Sunday, April 17th. Please mark your calendars. This event will be extremely important as it will literally cover a host of invaluable information, trail procedures, techniques, and protocols on how we will roll that we will be practicing for the remaining training trips to follow when we will actually be backpacking. This will be your first full-on introduction to "the Philmont Way". Although not backpacking per se, we will be training out of a central location where we will be hiking and camping overnight. Our time will be fun, packed, fast-paced, and in perpetual motion at least until we have a serious camp fire after Saturday supper! More details to follow, including costs, which I hope to have to you well in advance of our second Philmont Basics trekker/parent meeting on Tuesday, March 8th, so we can collect payment then.

For now, I need a solid head count for who is going. Please let me hear back from all of you by no later than Sunday, February 28th. You can just confirm by replying to this email directly back to me. I hope that the count is a full 24, because  training events, and this one is no exception, are perhaps the most  important thing we do to prepare for our Philmont adventure together. Your attendance represents commitment-to you and your fellow crew members. Once we have confirmed our head count, then we can determine the trip cost per person and other trip logistics.

Thanks so much and...Let's go hiking!
Mr. Brown