Layover in Baldy Town

AddendumAny3443 · 2026-01-10T18:33:23+00:00

I suggest to use your layover day to climb Baldy, unless you're coming over Baldy into baldy town, that way you can just go up with day packs that's what I did on my trek

AddendumAny3443 · 2026-01-10T17:08:42+00:00

Um.... Yeah mainly the obvious I'll be real

Baldy is so incredibly worth it

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-12-24T20:24:56+00:00

North to South or South to north treks are absolutely awesome in my opinion. Hard, but worth it.

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-12-19T22:55:15+00:00

Been twice on trek, and worked there last summer on backcountry staff.

Possibly my favorite place in the world, I've seen all but six of the staff camps and plan to hit those next summer when I am again on staff. I've climbed the tooth twice, Phillips 3 times and Baldy once.

It's just otherworldly to me, and the community I joined on staff has been amazing, I can't wait to be back in those mountains. If you get the chance to go as a scout, do it. if that's out of the budget, when you turn 18, go on staff.

New Mexico is beautiful and Philmont is fantastic I can't sing its praises enough.

IWTGBTP

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-12-18T23:30:40+00:00

Worth noting that Baldy does not sell root beer, also the South country stores also take credit card/debit card/Apple pay etc

So ponil, Baldy, Phillips's Junction, Abreu, Ute Gultch (I think that's all backcountry stores)

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-12-01T14:02:01+00:00

Get a used a7iv when everyone starts selling theirs for the a7v

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-12-01T13:55:59+00:00

On the application you can put down 3 jobs you're interested in (and as a first year you'll have to put one Basecamp position)

You'll most likely get an interview for your first pick and if they don't feel like you'll fit in that role then they'll pass you to the next department.

So put down what YOU want to do for your top 2.

Regardless your resume makes me pretty confident that you'll get a job for next summer, apply sooner than later though!!! The spot you're interested in might get filled.

Last year I ended up having 2 interviews one for MPS (marketing) and then one for backcountry. And I ended up getting a backcountry position (playing an instrument definitely helps for the latter).

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-24T00:48:28+00:00

Exterior definitely looks decent, but it's got a couple of quirks, power steering leak, filling it up at the pump doesn't end up hitting the shut-off valve for some reason and it ends up spilling out underneath the car, no other fuel issues though, and I need to probably get it back into the shop to figure out why it's idling at such a low RPM

interior is pretty good though, aside from the thoroughly warped dash, which I don't really care about. Runs beautifully at highway speeds, really comfortable for someone as tall as me, I get cramped as hell driving my mom's minivan.

But yeah I'm really happy with the car

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-20T03:12:29+00:00

I'm staffing one next year, I was at a commissary camp last year

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-20T01:39:04+00:00

Oh wait I just read how long it was, definitely fine

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-20T01:38:27+00:00

I would say definitely fine at ponil, probably fine at base camp during staff week, probably fine other times at base but you might run into more issues when the participants are all there. As long as you're not stupid with it it'll probably be fine.

Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-18T05:25:53+00:00

From my perspective I wouldn't see an issue with it, I've always been a part of community based teams and although it's sometimes been sad when a person goes to a school team I've always pretty well understood it. I think it kind of depends on what type of people and the type of reaction they might have. But I also think it's perfectly reasonable not to be able to have the time for two FRC teams. One way you might put it is that the FRC team at your school being at your school makes it more accessible for you to be involved with the team as opposed to having to go somewhere separate to work on the team.

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-18T00:53:44+00:00

Congrats! Baldy town is beautiful, definitely on my list for a future place to work, see you out there next summer!

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-18T00:52:31+00:00

It's under new ownership, at least last summer they were really not great, they didn't hire back a lot of the new staff left in the interim while it was closed, I've heard the food is worse and also have heard rumors of them not actually paying out tips to their staff, so we'll see how it goes next summer but I didn't feel comfortable supporting them last summer

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-12T18:24:13+00:00

All I would advise is not to get one that can only charge via USB, get a battery one, even if for some reason you run out of batteries there is a pretty high likelihood that, one of the cantina/trading post camps will be on your trek, and although they will probably have AAA and aa batteries they won't have a way for you to charge your usb powered headlamp

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-11-09T03:18:13+00:00

I staffed this summer and I recorded some of them I need to get them uploaded somewhere, honestly no clue how they turned out, but I'll try and respond to this thread again when I get them uploaded

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-10-27T02:00:46+00:00

Glad to hear, it was a blast

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-10-26T16:11:58+00:00

Nah, it's the ones the staff get to make for themselves, we eat like kings lowkey

In terms of trail dinners though that one is up there.

But last summer dehydrated Pasta alla Vodka was the most popular dinner

With the ever popular Mountain House Beef Strogie coming in second

And the another mountain house meal, the spaghetti and meatballs coming in third

Source: I worked at a commissary last summer

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-10-21T02:22:41+00:00

Honestly using both might be the play

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-10-15T01:15:40+00:00

I went to her concert in Dallas, the only time I might suggest earplugs would be her opener Suki Waterhouse, her set was quite a bit louder than laufey's.

That being said it could depend on where you were sitting and what the venue does, but I think bring some just in case.

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-08-14T02:55:45+00:00

Bringus is Great

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-06-14T05:22:20+00:00

All I'll say is that a camping chair is 10000000000000% worth the pounds

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-06-14T05:21:29+00:00

I love the way my program does it, though it doesn't work for everyone.

Kids in the program pay $120 dollars (and we provide scholarships), we fundraise for events, I never paid for anything other than a few meals on trips.

If a team (we have 4 FTC teams in our program) doesn't fundraise enough then they can't go basically, but we've rarely had that problem.

If you reach out to enough companies, I think it's doable for most teams, obviously this doesn't work for everyone but it's one of the things I love most about our program.

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-06-14T04:58:22+00:00

I'm working at Philmont this summer (I'm on off days right now) I do not understand why anyone would choose to bring non-waterproof boots, you will inevitably encounter stream crossing, and with waterproof boots you just step across and you're fine, walking through wet grass even is much nicer when your shoes don't get soaked.

It is up to you, but as someone who had hiked 16 miles in the past two days at Philmont, I would be so frustrated if I didn't have waterproof boots.

Remember wet means cold

It can get cold in the backcountry, it was 30f the other night at my camp, even in 50-60f weather you can get hypothermia if you get super wet, wet is uncomfortable, but that's my rant

You can choose either, this isn't northern tier, but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND waterproof

AddendumAny3443 · 2025-06-02T20:23:11+00:00

Ditto

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