Been a while since this was posted on, but I have good news for people looking for answers to this topic.
We recently completed a 12 day trek in August 2021 and found that Philmont really doesn't enforce its rules and grants exceptions where they explicitly say they don't.
First, you can have crews larger than 12, just ask, we had 13 in our crew.
Second, crew members don't have to have completed 8th grade, we had a 13 year old in our crew that just finished 7th grade.
Third, they don't enforce the weight limits. We had one adult that was almost 30 pounds over the limit of 239 for a 6' person; no problems at health check, they weighed him and we moved on.
Fourth, they say no sheath knives at Philmont, but I saw numerous crew and staff sporting them, some excessively large.
So I guess the moral here is just ask and don't assume what they write in their rules is the final word.
Philmont weight requirements (sending kids home?)
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Been a while since this was posted on, but I have good news for people looking for answers to this topic.
We recently completed a 12 day trek in August 2021 and found that Philmont really doesn't enforce its rules and grants exceptions where they explicitly say they don't.
First, you can have crews larger than 12, just ask, we had 13 in our crew.
Second, crew members don't have to have completed 8th grade, we had a 13 year old in our crew that just finished 7th grade.
Third, they don't enforce the weight limits. We had one adult that was almost 30 pounds over the limit of 239 for a 6' person; no problems at health check, they weighed him and we moved on.
Fourth, they say no sheath knives at Philmont, but I saw numerous crew and staff sporting them, some excessively large.
So I guess the moral here is just ask and don't assume what they write in their rules is the final word.