Stacia Biel/Wyatt Biel
Family Adventures in the Canadian Rockies
SUMMARY OF TRIP INFORMATION
Family Adventures in the Canadian Rockies
Leader Stacia Biel
Co-leader Wyatt Biel
Banff and Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
June 27-July 5, 2015
Total # of days 9
Backpacking
Bicycling-Mountain
Bicycling-Road
Title of trip
Leadership
Location(s)
Dates
Type of trip
check all that apply
Camping
Cultural
Family
Hiking
Paddling-Canoeing
Paddling-Sea-Kayaking
Skiing-CrossCountry (Nordic)
Trekking (e.g., hutto-hut)
Family
Minimum 16
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
Skiing-Downhill
Snorkeling
(Alpine)
Walking
Other – please describe
Select one of those checked above.
Maximum 20
$ 1475 adults,
Does it include airfare? Yes
No
$575 for 1-6,
$850 for 6-16
$ 550-750
Will leaders assist participants with flights? Yes
No
First Appearance: Month September
Year 2014
Last Appearance: Month March
Year 2015
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. As soon as approved
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
Form Revised July 2013
Stacia Biel
176 Dothan Street, Winchester, MA 01890
amcstacia@yahoo.com
Home 781-583-5330
Work 857-288-7916
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: June 2016
Cell 617-835-6532
CPR
BLS
Expiration: June 2016
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.
Family Hiking in the Canadian Rockies, August 2009
Yosemite and California Hiking and Biking, July 2008
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Trip three
Other related trip
experience
Explore Istanbul and Turkish Mediterranean, June 2007
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?
Wyatt Biel
176 Dothan Street, Winchester, MA 01890
wyattbiel@gmail.com
Home 781-583-5330
Work 617-495-1410
Cell 617-835-9876
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: June 2016
CPR
BLS
Expiration: Certified for work as Nurse Practitioner
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.
Family Hiking in the Canadian Rockies, August 2009
Yosemite and California Hiking and Biking, July 2008
Explore Istanbul and Turkish Mediterranean, June 2007
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below:
11 prior trips to the Canadian Rockies, including 4 AMC trips, one of which was a
family trip in 2009.
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!
Markus Jork or Sue Lach
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
Form Revised July 2013
This day hiking trip will be geared towards families. Each day there will be a hike
option - 3-5 miles in length, easy to moderate and geared towards children. Hikes will
take place in Banff and Yoho National Parks. One of the days we will take a shuttle to
the top of Sunshine Meadows to explore a higher elevation. There will be one rest day
where we drive up the Icefields Parkway, stopping along the way to visit several scenic
areas - Peyto Lake, Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefields. Parks Canada also offers
ranger led hikes.
Private rooms in the Banff and Lake Louise Hostels in private rooms. Leaders have
stayed here multiple times.
All breakfasts and dinners are included either at the hostels or in restaurants. Lunch
supplies will be purchased locally and participants will pay for their own items - each
hostel has a full kitchen where lunches can be prepared. There will be a welcome dinner
in Banff and a goodbye dinner in Lake Louise.
Rented vans and cars
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local transportation
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)
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:
Annual passes will be acquired upon entering Banff National Park.
If no, please describe the process you went through to find out that they were not
required:
Special equipment
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what type of equipment and how you
Does the trip require special
will ensure that people know how to use it:
equipment?
Special experience
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what type of experience? Also describe
Does the trip require special
how you will ensure that the participant has this experience?
skills on the part of the
participant?
Pre-trip activities
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what you will do:
Do you plan to get your group Will try to do a hike with group prior to departure locally.
together before the trip for an
activity or social event?
Participants will experience family-oriented recreation and cultural activities.
Conservation, education and
Parks Canada maintains wonderful exhibits on the geology, flora and fauna, with
recreation
How will this AMC-AT trip meet the
many children-friendly exhibits. Some interpretive trails will be explored as well
mission of the AMC?
at Moraine Lake and Peyto Lake.
www.outdoors.org/about/mission.cfm
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:
entire trip?
Name of tour operator/guide
service
Tour operator website
Safety record
Please provide information
about their safety record.
Insurance
Liability? Yes
No
Maximum amt: $
Do they have liability
Are they willing to list AMC as an
Yes
No
insurance?
additional insured?
Emergency response
Please describe the outfitters’
response plan in the case of an
emergency.
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
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Potential hazards
Response
Foreign Country
Potential hazards
Response
Transportation
Potential hazards
Response
Participants
Potential hazards
Response
Other
Potential hazards
Response
The terrain will be mountainous. Some exposure to higher altitudes, lightening and
adverse weather conditions.
Leaders will make judgement calls on where to go if weather or terrain are not favorable.
Participants who may have issues with altitude may not participate on hike and an
alternative will be found.
Political concerns, crime, language translation, terrorism
None
Road conditions, drivers, insurance
Rental vans and mountain roads
Leaders will screen participants who plan to drive for their experience and comfort with
mountain roads.
Level of fitness, screening concerns, experience with equipment or activity
Varying fitness levels and children tiring
There will be 2 leaders, so we can break into separate groups with varying fitness levels
if necessary. All hikes will be relatively easy and lasting only 3-4 hours max. Smaller
children will be carried in packs; older children will have sufficient rest breaks.
Conditions unique to this type of trip
Wildlife - bears, elk; sheep
Participants will be instructed not to approach wildlife on foot; bear avoidance
techniques will be discussed.
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
We will never be more than 3 miles or so from any trailhead, and popular trails are
Emergency communication
Phone contacts, language,
patrolled by Park Service personnel. Leaders will carry radios and use them when we
documentation, distance from
break into smaller groups.
emergency services
Just regular first aid kits and co-leader is medical professional. We will never be more
Emergency equipment
What sort of emergency first
than 3-4 miles or so from any trailhead, and popular trails are patrolled by Park Service
aid or communication
personnel. Leaders will carry radios and use them when we break into smaller groups.
equipment (satellite phone,
two-way radios) do you plan
to use, if any?
If there is an injury that requires evacuation, the Parks Canada is contacted and they
Evacuation
Please describe your plan for
coordinate the evacuation. They can do helicopter and horse rescues. Leaders have
evacuation from the
personally seen rescues in progress. Otherwise, light injuries are treated and evacuation
backcountry location if
is done by horse or on foot.
applicable?
There are is a clinic and hospital in Banff and Canmore as well as a clinic in Lake
Medical care
Please describe the medical
Louise. Several rangers on staff are backcountry EMTS. Wyatt Biel is a nurse practioner.
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
a tour operator or agent is being used, what
currency is the agent to be paid in?
Form Revised July 2013
Canadian Dollars. Exchanging at CAD$1=USD$0.95) on June 2, 2014.
We were conservative in the budget and used 1 to 1. As a contingency,
we'll assume the value of the dollar could deteriorate and we'll use a
higher contingency (8%). If exchange rates for the USD deteriorate
beyond parity by the time of the final payment due date, an adjustment
can be made. Participants will be made aware of the potential for a
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Group Trip Deposits
What deposits will be required
from you by airlines, hotels, tour
operators, etc., and when?
Group Trip Refunds
What is the latest date you can
cancel and still receive a full
refund of any deposits?
Participant deposits
What are the initial deposit and
your schedule of payments by
participants to you?
Cancellation policy
What will be your cancellation
policy for the participants?
Minimum numbers
Will you still run the trip if you
do not get the minimum number?
Reference web links:
AMC-ATC Home Page:
Forms:
Deadlines:
E-Mail Addresses:
Club House:
AMC-ATC Chair:
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small uptick (or rebate) based in-part on the exchange rate.
Hostels require 20% at booking and cancellation until 72 hours before with no penalty.
No deposits for rental cars.
72 hours in advance of check in. No other deposits required. Will pay for shuttle just
prior to trip. Everything else will be purchased on site.
$500 for adults and $300 for children all ages
People will receive refund if their spot can be taken, less a $50 fee. If their spot cannot
be taken, they will receive back any funds that won't impact the shared costs.
Yes
No
If yes, please describe conditions:
We would take under 14 adults as long as the total cost to leaders and participants does
not go up significantly.
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nholland@outdoors.org
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