At Tooth of Time Traders, the mission of the Boy Scouts of America and Philmont guide our team as we continue to strive for success. We believe a talented, committed individual that can work alone and as part of a team can make a real difference. We celebrate our successes, learn from our mistakes and strive to create a cutting edge shopping experience for Philmont staff and participants past, present and future. We also manage to keep a sense of humor along the way. On August 4, 2004, we launched the website and we will realize almost $500,000 in off-site sales by year end. So, if you are ready for Tooth of Time Traders at Philmont Scout Ranch, read on!

We are seeking a creative e-commerce specialist to create a dynamic and interesting Philmont experience for our customers on our website and to support the growth of web sales through accurately managing the web content and optimizing and designing graphics.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that website content is 100% accurate, and is optimized so that customers can easily search and read all site pages
• Ensure that website functionality is 100% operational
• Create web graphics as needed to support all e-commerce efforts
• Create web pages and e-mail campaigns using HTML, Javascript or possessing the ability to learn these and other common web languages that are necessary
• Assist with product purchasing
• Provide leadership to brick and mortar store operation

Characteristics/ Skills Required

• Attention to detail, well organized, and efficient
• Takes initiative to achieve a measurable result
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
• Must have good design recognition and understanding
• Enthusiastic
• Never satisfied with an average effort
• Self-supportive technical skills
• Excellent creative sense

This is a pro-technical position with the Boy Scouts of America and compensation will include a salary plus benefits.

For a complete job description and more information, please contact Shelley O’Neill at 505-376-2281 ext. 288 or send her an email: soneill@netbsa.org

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What will the Ranger legacy be?

For fifty years, the Ranger Department has made an impact on participants, and Philmont as a whole. As we celebrate this historic milestone, we have been given a challenge to leave a tangible commemoration of that impact.

The Philmont Staff Association, in conjunction with Ranch Management, is in the process of finalizing the plans for the new Staff Center, to be built adjacent to Tent City. As part of the planning for the 50th Anniversary Ranger Reunion, our committee decided that we wanted to leave a physical legacy at the Ranch. We chose to fund the centerpiece of the Staff Center: the grand fireplace.

To do so, we’ve accepted the challenge to raise $50,000 for the 50th anniversary.

The fireplace is being built using stone hauled off Baldy Mountain by the 2007 Rangers. Our legacy is to fund this enduring memorial to past and future Philmont Rangers and staff.

Please join me in making this legacy possible.

Mike Waggoner
Chief Ranger 2002-2005
50th Anniversary Ranger Reunion Chairman

…and I think the last one for 2007.

NPS’ Favorite Hikes
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Feelings of Philmont
and more

PhilNews #10

Revel in the three issue blast.

PhilNews #6
PhilNews #7
PhilNews #8

(6 and 7 are kinda big)

PhilNews #5

In this issue:
Best of the Backcountry
Wild New Mexico
Oil Tanker Restored
Hike of the Week
and more….

PhilNews #4

In this issue:
The Real Kit Carson
Survival 101
SHOWDOWN: Pueblano vs. Crater
and more….

From “In God’s Country“

PhilNews #3

In this issue:
The Geocaching Challenge
Jammin’ in the Backcountry
Make-up & Hiking
The Trail Up Trail
and more….

PhilNews #2

In this issue:
Curbing the Damage
Powered by the Sun
Global Warming Rears its Ugly Head
The New Eco-friendly Trail Trek
and more….

In 2005 a core group of Scouters scattered across the country sought permission from Philmont to post recent Itinerary Guides and Guidebooks to Adventure on the Internet. The professional staff granted permission in November of 2005 and we started what we call the “PEAKS PROJECT”.

What began as a modest effort to make a few documents more available has grown beyond our expectations. In addition to a complete set of all dated Itinerary Guides and Guidebook To Adventure documents, the site now offers a variety of other Philmont related documents as well as newspaper and magazine articles. Many items are long out of print and available only in the Philmont Museum & Seton Memorial Library or private collections. Scouters from all over the country have donated items to be scanned and returned or donated to the Seton depending on the owner’s wishes. Other items were purchased off of eBay when something new was for sale. Even the Seton granted us complete access to their archives in June of 2006 helping to fill in numerous gaps.

Today we still have gaps but our documents cover a wide range of topics dating from the earliest years of Philmont. We encourage anyone with unique documents not already archived on the site to contact Tom Wills (2004 Logistics staff) at twills@comcast.net to discuss contributing items of interest. We are seeking anything we do not have from the 1940s, 1950’s, and early 1960s, Staff Guidebooks, Ranger Guidebooks, Camp Director Guides, and just about anything to do with Cavalcades.

Visit the site often and enjoy the material posted. Do a little research, learn Philmont’s colorful history, or simply relive that trek you took in your youth.