Tag: Philmont Staff

Our Crater Lake (“Contained”) Campfire at Philmont

When I worked at Philmont Scout Ranch in the Summer of 1996, it was horribly hot and dry. We encountered

This post may use affiliate links. Learn more in my Disclosure Policy. Twenty years ago this month, I loaded my

This picture is from the summer of 1995. I was a Backcountry Program Counselor at Beaubien, one of (if not

In the Summer of 1984, I sat in the red-carpeted Living Room at Grandmama’s and Grandpa’s house. We had gathered

Dear Penn State Football, I am sitting here in the bleachers of our community’s youth football league complex.* We’re on

When I worked at Philmont 15-ish years ago, I got a little scruffy looking. My college friends said I was