Happy Holidays Philmont-ers!!
The time has come! The trek selection workbooks have been released to us! This is one of the most exciting parts of our preparation! We get to choose our journey on the magical Philmont property.
Similar to last year, they’ve given us another short turnaround. Since we had the informational sessions last year, we’re going to do it a little differently this year. We are giving you the information now, then we will hold one session to check in on December 29 7:00p. We need ALL Google Forms completed by January 3 so we can submit our responses.
Highlights
- Dates
- NOW
- Read this email in entirety…Scouts and family
- Look through the itinerary worksheet and get excited 😊
- December 29 7:00p
- We’ll hold a brief meeting to answer any questions
- January 3
- All worksheets should be emailed back to me. One per person
- March
- We should hear our assignments
- NOW
- DO NOT ASSUME THE ITINERARIES ARE THE SAME
- Trek selections and crew assignments will be completely redone this year. Too much has changed to try to carry them over
- REMINDER: FORM IS DUE BY JAN 3.
Q&A Session December 29
We’ll have an informal meeting on December 29 at 7:00p to answer any questions
Meeting ID: 963 6443 1220
Passcode: 737335
The Details
è è è First and foremost, we recommend everyone watch this great YouTube video that goes over many of the activities at Philmont: https://youtu.be/fPNK8f7eQjU
Here are two documents for you to reference:
- Philmont Trek Selection Google Form
- This is for EVERYONE to fill out and return to us no later than January 3
- This sheet guarantees we can take into account your opinions and preferences. It does NOT guarantee you will get everything on your sheet
- https://forms.gle/zPkqhvsqBGat3QAN6 (also attached)
- 2021 Philmont Trek Selection – 12 Day Itineraries ß ß ß
- This document is just the 12 day itineraries. I pulled it out so it’s easier to go through for you
- https://www.troop-332.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2021-Philmont-Treks-12-day-only.pdf
- The complete guidebooks can be found here
How your part works
- Watch the above video
- Read the materials
- Be sure to take time to look at the program feature descriptions too
- Focus on the programs and camps first.
- This helps you narrow down what you like and find common treks that have those offerings
- Go to the itinerary matrix (page 2 of the 12 day itinerary pdf)
- Highlight every x across the page that has what you are interested in
- If you are advanced, highlight them in different colors based on how much you like them (i.e. green like best, yellow for others)
- Now this tells you which itinerary / trek options you should look at in the detail pages.
- Go to the itinerary detail pages and look at the maps and read the descriptions
- The descriptions contain information on other things that didn’t make the matrix page.
- For example, in 2017 my itinerary included Window Rock. It was one of the most amazing views we had the entire trip. But it was only listed in the paragraph details of the itinerary and nowhere else
- The descriptions contain information on other things that didn’t make the matrix page.
- Fill out the Trek Selection worksheet based on your preferences
- Remember, we are asking everyone to fill out the form. HOWEVER, the Scout’s opinions and preferences count the most in the selection process
How our part works
- We will carefully evaluate every form submitted
- We will identify common treks and itineraries
- We will request the itineraries from Philmont
- We will submit 3 sets of 6 itineraries. One set for each crew
- No more than 2 of our crews could possibly do the same itinerary (they would be considered sister crews)
- Philmont will advise which 3 we are assigned after a few weeks (1 per crew)
- Once we receive the itinerary assignments back from Philmont, we will group Scouts into crews based on the forms submitted
