[Philmont] Market for tent stakes?

We had a crew of thirteen for our Cavalcade last summer. Because of the odd number we took one three-man tent but used five Philtents for the remainder of the crew. We only found one supplier of gutter spikes in our area and their minimum order was five times the number we needed. Since the younger members of our troop were going to summer camp while we were at Philmont, we knew that none of our other troop tents (and their stakes) would be in use while we were gone. We were overdue for a tent inventory anyway so we pulled out all our tents, inspected them and borrowed all the good stakes we found. We put a piece of masking tape on each tent bag listing any missing hardware or damage, the number of stakes required and the number of stakes borrowed (we left bent or odd stakes and many tents were missing pegs). We purchased enough packs of skewer stakes to make up the difference between the number of borrowed stakes and the amount needed for the Philtents and dining fly (we took fourteen stakes per Philtent and ten for the dining fly plus another half dozen extras). When we returned from Philmont we replaced all the borrowed stakes and had more than enough extra ones to replace any bent or missing stakes so that all troop tents now had a full compliment with a few left over. We also decided to retire a few unusable old tents and used their flys, poles and connectors as replacement parts for other tents per the masking tape notes we had make earlier. Not only was this a "thrify" solution for our Philmont trip but it left our troop tent situation in much better shape than it was before we left for New Mexico. Maybe your troop can do something similar.

Good luck,

Charlie Evans
ASM Troop 72
714-CV 2007
702-G 2004

----- Original Message -----
  From: Jim Zeszutek
  To: Philmont List Member
  Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:01 PM
  Subject: [Philmont] Market for tent stakes?

  Evening all,

  We are debating if we should buy aluminum gutter spikes at home and lug them to Philmont. Is there the opportunity for inbound crews to buy tent stakes and fuel from the outbound crews? Or do they keep outbound crews away from inbound so they don't scare the newbies??

  Getting close to our departure date and staring to sweat the small stuff!

        Yours In Scouting Service,

        Jim Zeszutek

        809-Q2

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