Pack List – Thank you Bill Rose!
TIPs and good things to remember
- Put socks in with your sleeping clothes, jogging shorts and t-shirt (can be cotton)
- Gaiters are good – Dirtygirlgaiters
- Bring zip ties for repairs
- Bring stuff to get branded (water bottle, shoes, etc)
- Get stuff branded as early as possible – hats, shoes, nalgenes
- Get conservation project out of the way early
- Buy hat before trek at philmont (baseball cap) for branding
- Do the mine program
- Pole climbing
- Blacksmiting
- Colt 45 shooting at Poneil
- Black powder shooting
- Advisors hold a roll of TP
- Acquire some feed bags and bring to Philmont (or large duffles)
- Tent/dining fly stakes – spray paint bright orange
- Dining fly – must bring your own stakes
- Use the swap boxes
- stay off porches at staff camps until invited
- via coffee is a good replacement, bring stevia and powder creamer in packets
Cooking
- Jet boils – 2 per crew, fuel – 2 fuels/jet boil
- Tupperware – shared by 2 people
- 1 spork per person
Food
- Took philmont food
- Cooked in two’s
Uniforms
- Full class A
- No hats
Tips
- Toilet paper is needed
- Mail jet boils in advance
- Sleep in cotton – shorts or long – stays in bottom of sleeping bag
- Bring lighters – put in pack
- Camelback – inside pack bladder or external 3L
- Pack 4700 to 5200L
- 1-2 people read the maps
- Carry no more than 1/3 of your weight
- 1 nice camera/crew – troop gear item?
- Leave 1st thing, hike, breakfast, hike and do activity in afternoon
Gear
- Sleeping bag
- Sleeping pad
- 2 underwear
- 2 shirts
- 1 shorts
- 1 zips
- 1 knife
- 1 socks
- 1 fleece
- 1 rain coat
- 1 rain pants
- Lots of carabiners
- 50 ft reflective p-cord for bear bags
- Boots – buy now and break-in – go for comfort – Osolo’s
- Look at scoutfirst.com/BSA
- Camp shoes – crocs or keens, no open toed shoes
- Duct tape
- Moleskin
- 3 pairs socks
- 5 liners
Philmont shake down hikes – do a fall trip
- Cunningham falls
- Black forest trail
- horseshoe back trail
Crews and leadership
- Get roster by end of December
- ID crews and youth leadership in January
CPR/Wilderness First Aid – schedule ASAP
Crew/Troop Gear
- 2 Water Containers
- 2 Jetboils
- 4 Fuel canisters
- 1 First Aid Kit (Crew)
- 1 Rainfly
- 1 Rope [?]
- 2 Bear Bags
- 1 Sunscreen
- 1 Insect Repellant
- 1 Shovel
- 1 Water Purifier/Tabelets
- 1 Steripen [?]
- 2 Leathermen
- 1 Duct Tape
- 1 Zip Ties (package)
- 2 Padlocks (for base camp lockers)
- 1 advil-sugar coated (100ct)
- 1 dishwash soap (bottle)
- 1 hand sanitizer (bottle)
- 5 toilet paper (1 roll/pair)
- 5 trash bags (1 bag/pair)
- 1 Paracord (100ft) [?]
- 2 lighters (Bic)
- 1 waterproof matches (package)
- 2 compass
- 4 whistle
- 5 plastic bowls with lids