Hiking Wales: Prembrokeshire Coastal Path & Brecon Beacon National Park
Cindy Martell/Barbara Dyer
SUMMARY OF TRIP INFORMATION
Hiking Wales: Prembrokeshire Coastal Path & Brecon Beacon National Park
Leader Cindy Martell
Co-leader Barbara Dyer
Wales, United Kingdom
June 30 - July 10, 2016
Total # of days 11
Backpacking
Bicycling-Mountain
Bicycling-Road
Title of trip
Leadership
Location(s)
Dates
Type of trip
check all that apply
Primary type of trip
Number of participants
(excluding leaders)
Advertised cost
Airfare range if not included
When should the trip notice be
published in AMC Outdoors?
Do you wish to have your trip
listed online before it is
published in AMC Outdoors?
Smaller trips and leader
subsidization
Camping
Cultural
Family
Hiking
Paddling-Canoeing
Paddling-Sea-Kayaking
Skiing-CrossCountry (Nordic)
Trekking (e.g., hutto-hut)
Hiking
Minimum 12
Skiing-Downhill
Snorkeling
(Alpine)
Walking
Other – please describe
Select one of those checked above.
Maximum 14
$ 2450
Does it include airfare? Yes
No
$ 1000
Will leaders assist participants with flights? Yes
No
First Appearance: Month March/April
Year 2015
Last Appearance: Month
Year
Note: AMC Outdoors is only published in Jan., March, May, July, Sept., Nov.
Yes
No If yes, please list the approximate month and year when it should
be posted on line. ASAP
Is this proposal for a small group trip – i.e., less than 14 participants and 2
leaders or 7 participants and 1 leader? Yes
No
If yes, why is a small group proposed?
If a participant fee increase of more than 15% is proposed, please explain why?
LEADER AND CO-LEADER INFORMATION
Leader name
Leader address
Leader email
Leader phone
Wilderness first aid
training
CPR training
Prior leading experience
Trip one
Trip two
Trip three
Other related trip
Form Revised February 2014
Cindy Martell
7 Arrow Trail, Groton, MA 01450
cbmartell@verizon.net
Home 978-448-3998
Work 617-395-3284
Cell 978-302-5055
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: Will be renewed before trip
CPR
BLS
Expiration: Will be renewed before trip
If this is your first Adventure Travel trip as a Leader you must be present at the AMCATC meeting at which the trip proposal is considered.
Please list the last three longer (5+ day) trips you have led for the AMC including
destination, type of trip, dates and number of participants. Feel free to list additional
trips you have led, particularly if they demonstrate experience related to the trip you are
proposing.
Scotland 2014, hiking, August 2014, 14 participants, leader
Ireland 2013, hiking, May 2013, 14 participants, leader
Ireland 2012, hiking, May 2012, 14 participants, co-leader
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Hiking Wales: Prembrokeshire Coastal Path & Brecon Beacon National Park
Cindy Martell/Barbara Dyer
experience
Co-leader name
Co-leader address
Co-leader email
Co-leader phone
Wilderness first aid training
CPR training*
Prior leading experience
Trip one
Trip two
Trip three
Other related trip experience
Scouting
Have either of you led this trip
before or traveled to this area?
Languages
Does either the co-leader or
leader speak the local language?
Couples
Do the leader and co-leader
have a significant personal
relationship?
Private trips Do either of you
lead trips that are private - not
sponsored by the AMC?
Barbara Dyer
17 Breakneck Hill Rd, Southboro, MA 01772
barbaraadyer@gmail.com
Home 508-624-4085
Work 978-772-8600
Cell 508-735-3281
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: Will renew before trip
CPR
BLS
Expiration: Will renew before trip
If you are a new co-leader you must submit an application to be an Adventure Travel
leader or co-leader prior to submitting this application. Also, it is strongly
recommended that you be present at the AMC-ATC meeting at which the trip proposal
is considered.
Please list the last three longer (5+ day) trips you have led for the AMC including
destination, type of trip, dates and number of participants. Please indicate if you were
the leader or co-leader.
Yellowstone 2015, hiking, June 2015, 16 participants
Yellowstone 2012, hiking, June 2012, 16 participants
Mountain Classroom many times, have led 100+ trips for AMC since 2004
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below:
Co-leader: Yes
No
Leader: Yes
No
Not applicable:
Yes
No
If yes, please list who has agreed to be your back-up in case one or
both of you need to drop out. This is required for approval!
Yes
No
If yes, please note that you cannot advertise AMC and private
trips together unless there is a clear distinction between the two in any materials
you send out.
LOGISTICAL DETAILS OF TRIP
Summary
Please provide a description
of the trip and the activities
planned. If available, please
include or attach an itinerary.
Accommodations
Please describe your plans for
accommodation(s)
Meals: Please describe your
plans for providing meals. If
the budget includes any funds
for leader meals not shared
with the group please justify.
Local Transportation
Please describe your plans for
local transportation
Form Revised February 2014
We'll be flying into Heathrow and will spend the first night in London. Our outfitter has
arranged transportation from London to Crickowell, Wales, where we will spend two
nights. We will have 2 days of guided hiking through the Brecon Beacons National
Park. Our transportation will then take us over to Newport, Wales, where we will be
hiking along the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path along the southwest coast of Wales for 4
days staying at inns along the way. We will end the trip with another night in London
before flying home.
Accomodations are currently planned at The Bear Hotel in Crickowell inside the national
park, the Golden Lion at Newport, and Old Cross Hotel at St David's.
All breakfasts are included in the lodging cost. Pack lunches will be purchased from our
innkeepers or local shop. Dinner is included for the two nights we'll be at the Bear
Hotel. We will have a good-bye group dinner at our last night in London. Participants
will be on their own for all other dinners; there are plenty of local pubs and restaurants to
choose from.
Our outfitter has lined up a local mini-bus (16 passenger) with driver to transport us
from/to London and Wales plus from the national park to our starting point on the coast.
They have also lined up a shuttle service for our luggage on the days that we are walking
along the coast to the next town. We will ocassionally take adventage of the local bus
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Will leaders or participants be
drivers of motor vehicles?
Permits or permissions
Does the trip require special
permits or permissions?
(required on many U.S.
federal lands and national
parks)
Special equipment
Does the trip require special
equipment?
service (Poppit Rocket) to get us to and from the trail head
Will leaders be drivers?
Will volunteer participants be drivers?
If so, MVR checks will be needed. See Appendix S1.
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what you will need to do to obtain them:
If no, please describe the process you went through to find out that they were not
required:
The outfitter has indicated none are needed
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what type of equipment and how you
will ensure that people know how to use it:
Hiking boots, day packs, wet-weather gear, water bottles/bladders. We will be reviewing
clothing needs in our newsletters
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what type of experience? Also describe
how you will ensure that the participant has this experience?
Participants must be able to walk 5 to 10 miles per day, 4 days in a row. We will be
holding a pre-hike before the trip and we will be screening for this experience.
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what you will do:
We will have a pre-hike, location TBD
Special experience
Does the trip require special
skills on the part of the
participant?
Pre-trip activities
Do you plan to get your group
together before the trip for an
activity or social event?
Conservation, education and
recreation
How will this AMC-AT trip meet the
mission of the AMC?
www.outdoors.org/about/mission.cfm
We will have a guide with us for two days who is also a naturalist for that area.
TOUR OPERATOR AND GUIDE SERVICE INFORMATION
This section should be completed if the trip will be using a tour operator, outfitter, guide service, travel agency or
other such company or person(s) for a significant part of the trip or for the entire trip. Any person(s) or companies
that are handling a significant portion of trip funds or arrangements need to be vetted. If there is more than one
tour operator please provide this information about each such entity.
Will this trip require a tour
Yes
No
operator or guide service
Please describe their services. If you are using a tour operator for the entire trip,
during part of or for the
please describe why you will be using them rather than doing this trip on your own:
Our outfitter has lined up transportation to get us to distance locations plus to move our
entire trip?
luggage when we are not returning to our starting point. They have also lined up our
accomodations and connected us with our guide. We will only be using the guide during
our time in the national park (2 days). We will be self-guided on the 4-days of coastal
hiking.
Name of tour operator/guide British & Irish Walks
service
www.britishandirishwalks.com
Tour operator website
Safety record
Please provide information
about their safety record.
Insurance
Liability? Yes
No
Maximum amt: $ £2 million
Do they have liability
Are they willing to list AMC as an
Yes
No
insurance?
additional insured?
They are a local business and are available 24hours by phone. All inns and B&B's know
Emergency response
Please describe the outfitters’
how to get in contact with B&I Walks
response plan in the case of an
emergency.
Form Revised February 2014
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RISK ASSESSMENT
Please assess the risks and hazards of your trip. Carefully consider each area of risk and how it may affect your trip.
Devise a plan to prevent each hazard and to respond to it if it becomes necessary. Please be very specific for each section
if applicable.
Trail conditions, river crossings, weather, wildlife (bears, snakes, etc.)
Climate/terrain
Potential hazards
Wet, foggy weather especially along the coast. Only one signficiant river and it has a
bridge on which to cross
Response
Participants will stick together when the fog comes in
Political concerns, crime, language translation, terrorism
Foreign Country
Potential hazards
None - the United Kingdom is a very stable country
Response
Road conditions, drivers, insurance
Transportation
Potential hazards
Our transportation will be provided by local drivers who know the area and conditions of
the roads. We will also be using the Poppit Rocket coastal bus service which is driven
by local drivers who know the area and roads.
Response
Level of fitness, screening concerns, experience with equipment or activity
Participants
Potential hazards
Someone who can't keep up or is injured
Response
There is the option of skipping the day's hike and being transported with the luggage to
the next location.
Conditions unique to this type of trip
Other
Potential hazards
Loss of money and/or passport
Response
B&I Walks will assist us in contacting the US embassy if needed
EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN
Please describe your plans for dealing with emergencies. Give as much detail as possible and list any special
communications equipment you may need to ensure the safety of your participants. DO NOT LEAVE THIS BLANK
The furthest we'll be from emergency services is about 3 miles. The coastal road paraells
Emergency communication
Phone contacts, language,
the coastal hiking path. The Poppit Bus Service has frequent service (every 20 minutes)
documentation, distance from
which we can flag down. During our time with the guide, he will be carrying a
emergency services
communication device.
We will have our cell phones and one of us will be turning on international service.
Emergency equipment
What sort of emergency first
aid or communication
equipment (satellite phone,
two-way radios) do you plan
to use, if any?
We will be guided by the local emergency service personnel
Evacuation
Please describe your plan for
evacuation from the
backcountry location if
applicable?
There are 4 hospitals within less than an hour drive from the furthest point of our hike
Medical care
Please describe the medical
One of the hospitals is: Gorseinon Hospital, Brynawel Rd, Gorseinon, Wales, UK
care available in the area(s)
where you will be traveling
and list names and telephone
numbers for these facilities.
COST AND BUDGET DETAILS
Foreign currencies
For int’l trips list each foreign currency, the
current $US dollar exchange rate and what
contingencies you have if that rate changes. If
Form Revised February 2014
British Pounds. Current rate is £1 = $1.556 (as of 12-27-14)
We will be using the rate of £1 = $1.70
For Scotland, we used $1.65 and the rate went much higher when we
had to pay the bill - our contingency saved us - we don't want a repeat of
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a tour operator or agent is being used, what
that issue
currency is the agent to be paid in?
B&I Walks requires a £105 pp non-refundable deposit to confirm the booking. The
Group Trip Deposits
What deposits will be required
balance is due 2 months before we go. B&I Walks know that we will not be paying
from you by airlines, hotels, tour any deposit until we know the trip is 'a go' and has agreed to wait till then for the
operators, etc., and when?
deposit.
2 months (April 30th) before the trip less the per person deposit which we will not be
Group Trip Refunds
What is the latest date you can
paying until we know we're going. If someone cancels, we will be able to switch out
cancel and still receive a full
that person with another with no penalities.
refund of any deposits?
$500 deposit with the application. Balance due March 31, 2016.
Participant deposits
What are the initial deposit and
your schedule of payments by
participants to you?
After March 31, 2016, no refunds unless we can fill the spot with an acceptable
Cancellation policy
What will be your cancellation
participant.
policy for the participants?
Minimum numbers
Yes
No
If yes, please describe conditions:
Will you still run the trip if you
do not get the minimum number?
Reference web links:
AMC-ATC Home Page:
Itinerary:
June 30 - depart home airport
July 1 - arrive and overnight in London
July 2 - transfer to Crickowell, Wales, overnight in Bear Hotel, afternoon guided hike
July 3 - guided hike in Brecon Beacons National Park, overnight Bear Hotel
July 4 - transfer to Newport, Wales, tour Botanical Gardens of Wales, afternoon walk in Newport,
overnight at Golden Lion and other B&Bs
July 5 - transfer to Dinas Island (not an island…), hike Pembrokeshire Coastal Path back to Newport,
overnight in Newport
July 6 - hike coastal path to Fishguard, overnight in Fishguard
July 7 - hike coastal path to Trefin, leave path and take coastal bus to St Davids, overnight in St Davids
July 8 - take coastal bus back to Trefin, continue on coastal path to St Davids, overnight in St Davids
July 9 - transfer to London, overnight in London
July 10 - fly home
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/
Forms:
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/application/
Deadlines:
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/committee/proposals/
E-Mail Addresses:
Club House:
nholland@outdoors.org
AMC-ATC Chair:
mikebarry657@mac.com
Form Revised February 2014
Adventure Travel Trip Proposal Form, page 5 of 5