Disney World for Boy Scouts. I went in 1978 out of the Baltimore Area Council. I still have my Philmont belt and buckle. Nothing quite like a walk in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. A life changing experience.
Were you able to stop anywhere on the way to and from DIA? We spent one night at the AF Academy eating dinner at the Flying W Ranch (burned down three years ago in a large wildfire) in Colorado Springs. Second night we spent at an Indian Kiva in Pueblo run by an Explorer Post/OA Lodge.
While living in Colorado I was able to visit the area several times. The NRA's Whittington Center is just up the road a bit closer to Raton. Very nice facility with ranges out past 1000 meters. They also have a very nice firearms museum.
I concur, it looks like a shaving knife.
I also went out of BAC and had the Kiva experience both times. Agree, a life changing experience.
We visited the AF Academy, Garden of Gods, Cave of Winds, and the best I think was Olympic and Paralympic training center. Our tour guide was Stetson Bardfield, paralympic shooting champion. You are hand selected and preferred to be livining and training at that center. The shooting facilities of the Olympic training center is the only part that is not funded by the committee...the NRA pays the way. And I didn't see one NRA logo or sign or statue or plaque....
We passed the Whittington Center. Is part of it underground? We didn't see much building structures so perhaps it is all outside. We were passing quick to get to basecamp.
The BSA Museum was moved to Philmont and it was fabulous. Could have spent days in the library.
Back to the knife....the handle is straight and doesn't seem right for a shaving knife to me. But I guess it's a possibility. It's a heavy knife too.