Thank you for the ideas. Here is our plan, but as Russell Ziskey said, Custer had a plan.
We're doing a troop backpacking trip in September. We'll make it flexible based on abilities and camping in a primitive campground site that can handle our not so big troop.
The Philmont shakedowns will be just for the Philmont crew, but if there's room on a trip, younger, capable scouts can join. So it won't be separate patrols. We don't have enough age eligible scouts to even completely fill a 12 person crew, including adults.
I joined Potomac Appalachian Trail Club to rent one of thei