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Running Deer Range
30.06 running deer range at Pueblano is designed for
"big bore" experience and fun. Participants are individually
supervised. Cost is $1.00 for 5 shots.
Orienteering
At all starting camps expeditions will receive training in
orienteering. Orienteering is designed to enrich your trip
through Philmont by increasing your skills in the proper
use of your compass and the knowledgeable interpretation
of your Philmont contour map. The mastery of this program
will show you that skillful navigation can be a challenging,
educational, and enjoyable experience.
Survival
Survival training is fun and a challenging experience. Learn
of the edible plants and animals and master the skills that
are your real providers in a survival situation. You learn
how to construct a lean-to and eating utensils out of native
materials; build, set and properly locate traps and snares;
start a fire by friction; boil water using heated stones in a
burned out log; learn the many ways you can make use of
nature's supply house. You learn to meet emergencies and
to improvise adequate protection from weather and cold.
This training may save your life someday.
Weather Stations
Philmont keeps weather records from camps at varying
elevations scattered throughout our 137,221 acres. See the
instruments; learn how they are used and how they operate,
what they tell us, and what causes our weather. Suggest
reasons for such great differences of data among camps.
Western Lore - Advanced Dutch-oven Cooking
Philmont is actually an operating western ranch. Our cowboys
still watch over our cattle on horseback, not in jeeps or
planes. While you are on the trails, you may see some of
our white-faced Hereford cattle. While not wild, they are
best observed from a distance. A cow with a calf may become
dangerous if she feels that her calf is being threatened.
To chase or attempt to rope these animals might result
in serious injury. Feel free to watch them and take pictures
if you wish. Other ranch activities that you may see are
cutting and baling alfalfa hay and harvesting other crops.
At some spots on the ranch you will find a camp with a
cowboy counselor. He can tell you more about the cattle
industry in this area. He will explain about his horse and
the garb worn by a western cowboy. With an extra supply
of authentic western lariats, he can give your group some
instruction in how to use the lasso. Then under a western
sky, you'll gather around the blazing campfire for an evening
of songs, guitar-playing, and stories of the Old West.
Learn the various types and parts of Dutch ovens and how
each has best-suited, as well as varied, uses. Using Dutch
ovens, cook up (and eat) some western specialties. Then
join in a camp-wide, western style Dutch ovefi feed for the
evening meal.
Woodslore Wisdom
Become wise to, and skillful in, the many and varied uses
of the out-of-doors. Learn the multitude of ways native
materials can provide you with clothing, pack, bed, shelter,
food, fire, water, and utensils for every use. Learn how to
read animal tracks, stalk and lure animals, use nature as a
compass and clock, "read the weather," etc. This program
scrapes the surface of survival, field biology, orienteering,
weather, pioneering, astronomy, and forestry. It draws from
them what man can put to practical use or just plain enjoyment.
REACH FOR THE BIG ONES
Hike to Tooth of Time
A hike to the 9,003-foot elevation of the old Santa Fe
Trailmark - the Tooth of Time, which rises abruptly nearly
2,000 feet from the valley floor-gives one a view of Philmont
that will never be forgotten.
Top of Baldy Mountain
While you camp in the Baldy Town area, you will want to
climb "Old Baldy." This is the highest peak on Philmont-
12,441 feet. The view from the top of Baldy is spectacular.
Others, Too
Yes, there are Mount Phillips, Shaefer's Pass, Comanche
Peak, Black Mountain, Trail Peak (where the B-24 crashed
in '42), and many other peaks that will test your stamina
and give you breath-taking views of surrounding terrain.
PHILMONT MUSEUM
The adobe-style Philmont (Kit Carson) Museum, located at
Rayado, near the site of Kit Carson's home, provides historic
artifacts and exhibits that will give you greater understanding
and appreciation of the background and history of
Philmont country. A curator will be on hand to tell you the
thrilling story from the earliest known inhabitants on Philmont
through the Maxwell Land Grant, the exciting gold
mining days, to the time of Waite Phillips and his munificent
gift to the Boy Scouts of America.
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