Norway: Hiking Hut to Hut in the Land of the Reindeer
Dick Cable/Janis Stahlhut
SUMMARY OF TRIP INFORMATION
Norway: Hiking Hut to Hut in the Land of the Reindeer
Leader Dick Cable
Co-leader Janis Stahlhut
Norway
August 11-21, 2015
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-CrossSkiing-Downhill
Snorkeling
Country (Nordic)
(Alpine)
Trekking (e.g., hutWalking
Other – please describe
to-hut)
Trekking (e.g., hut-to-hut)
Select one of those checked above.
Minimum 12
Maximum 14
$ 2400
Does it include airfare? Yes
No
$ 1000
Will leaders assist participants with flights? Yes
No
First Appearance: Month May
Year 2014
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. immediately
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 July 2013
Dick Cable
8 Heather Lane, Burlington, CT 06013
r.cable@sbcglobal.net
Home 860-673-1940
Work
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: 4/2014
Cell 860-944-0594
CPR
BLS
Expiration: 2/2014
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.
Biking Provence
Biking the Camino de Santiago
Biking Mantova to Venice
Hiking Yosemite, 2 trips to Mongolia, Hiking Nepal, Biking Sicily. Upcoming trips:
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Norway: Hiking Hut to Hut in the Land of the Reindeer
experience
Dick Cable/Janis Stahlhut
Machu Picchu/Easter Island, Biking Berlin to Prague, Biking Puglia, Biking the
Loire Valley, Biking Finland. Proposals: New Zealand, Biking Seattle and
Around.
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?
Janis Stahlhut
jstahlhut1@aol.com
Home
Work
Cell
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: 4/2013, registered to renew in 4/2013
CPR
BLS
Expiration: 11/2015
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.
Biking Provence
Biking the Camino de Santiago
Biking Mantova to Venice
Biking Sicily, Highland Center Hiking, Cape Cod Biking
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!
n/a
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.
Form Revised July 2013
This is a hut to hut trekking trip that commences in Oslo and proceeds to
Rondane National Park, the first national park in Norway. It was created to
protect the reindeer herd. This trip is planned in conjunction with the Norwegian
Trekking Association. The outline of the trip is as follows:
Day 1: Depart USA for Oslo
Day 2: Arrive Oslo. Free afternoon. Thon Hotel Spectrum.
Day 3. After breakfast, morning free to explore Oslo. In the afternoon proceed to
train to to Hjerkinn. Meeting point by the platform at Oslo Central Railway station
20 minutes before departure. Look for the platform on the monitor. Departure
with the train to Trondheim at 14.02 (arr. Oslo Airport Gardermoen at 14.29),
arrival at Hjerkinn station at 18.32. Accommodation in Hjerkinn Fjellstue (960 m).
Day 4 Hjerkinn - Grimsdalshytta
To Hageseter, heading south in open landscape, last part steep down to
Grimsdalshytta (1000 m), 5 hrs.
Day 5 Grimsdalshytta - Haverdalssæter
Heading south at the westside of the mountain Gravhøe (1267 masl) to
Haverdalssæter (1040 m), 3 hrs.
Day 6 Haverdalssæter - Dørålseter
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Along Haverdalsåe and down the narrow and rocky mountain pass, Dørålglupen,
to Øvre Dørålseter (1050 m), 5 hrs.
Day 7 Dørålseter - Rondvassbu
Up to Rondhalsen (1647 m) and along the lake Rondevatnet til Rondvassbu
(1167 m), 5 hrs.
Day 8 Rondvassbu - Bjørnhollia
In to the wide valley, Illmanndalen. Part of the trail is rocky. Through birch forest
to Bjørnhollia (914 m).
Day 9 Bjørnhollia
Extra night at Bjørnhollia. Day trip out of the lodge or a resting day.
Day 10 Return Oslo
Hike down to Straumbu, 2 hrs. Departure by bus at 13.00 to Ringebu, continue
by Nordfjordekspressen at 14.25, arrival Oslo Bus Terminal 18.15 (arr. Oslo
Airport Gardermoen 17.35). Group dinner in Oslo. Overnight at Thon Hotel
Spectrum .
Day 11: Depart to USA
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
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?
All accomodations will be in full service huts. First and last nights will be in the
Thon Hotel Spectrum in Oslo as our departure to the huts is too close to the
arrival time of international flights and our return to Oslo on Day 10 is too late to
catch international flights.
All meals are included from arrival to departure except lunch before our train
departure on Day 3.
Participants will be responsible to get to the train on arrival at Oslo Airport.
Return to the airport for departure is also the responsibility of participants. All
other transportation is provided.
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:
checked with Norwegian Trekking Association
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what type of equipment and how you
will ensure that people know how to use it:
A backpack that will carry clothing and personal items. Weight not to exceed 22
pounds/10 kilos.
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what type of experience? Also describe
how you will ensure that the participant has this experience?
Ability to hike for seven days for approximately 5 hours [not including breaks]
Special experience
Does the trip require special
skills on the part of the
participant?
Pre-trip activities
Yes
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
Form Revised July 2013
No
If yes, please describe below what you will do:
We will be stepping foot into the first national park of Norway. Norway
considers conservation to be paramount in their thinking. It is at the top of
the agenda of the Norwegian Trekking Association. We will be cognizant
of all that is important in this regard. Our guide will be educating us all
along the way of our days on the trail and in the huts.
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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:
We are working with NTA to obtain guaranteed sleeping in the huts as well as
entire trip?
the services of a guide.
Name of tour operator/guide Norwegian Trekking Association
service
info@turistforeningen.no OR http://www.turistforeningen.no/english
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?
See emergency equipment section on this
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
Potential hazards
Hiking trail conditions and weather
Response
All participants will be briefed each day before departure on the trail. All trail
precautions will be observed. Appropriate clothing will be advised and required
of all participants.
Political concerns, crime, language translation, terrorism
Foreign Country
Potential hazards
There are no potential concerns. Language is Norwegian
Response
Our guide will know and work in English. Most Norwegians speak English as
well.
Road conditions, drivers, insurance
Transportation
Potential hazards
We will not be driving
Response
Level of fitness, screening concerns, experience with equipment or activity
Participants
Potential hazards
Weather, packing appropriate clothing and other equipment, level of physical
readiness
Response
All particpants will be screened. Each will be able to hike on varied terrain for
ups to 5 hours each day over several days with a pack up to approximately 20-25
pounds. All will be required to carry appropriate clothing and boots appropriate
to the weather which can be cold and rainy. This will be ascertained through our
screening measures.
Conditions unique to this type of trip
Other
Potential hazards
Travelling in a foreign country
Response
Partipants will be advised about cultural differences in Europe. Cultural
sensitivity will be shared in newsletters and in daily meetings during the trip.
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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
Janis and Dick will carry the AMC-AT satellite phone as well as their phones with
Emergency communication
Phone contacts, language,
international coverage. As stated in another section, we will be not more than 2.5
hours to the hut behind or ahead of us.
documentation, distance from
emergency services
The leaders will carry cell phones with international coverage, but due to spotty
Emergency equipment
cell phone coverage, we will carry the AMC-AT satellite phone. Our guide will
What sort of emergency first
carry all suitable communication equipment appropriate to our location in
aid or communication
Rondane National Park. Norway has an emergency helicopter service to its
equipment (satellite phone,
backcountry locations.
two-way radios) do you plan
to use, if any?
We will have the necessary communication tools and are within hiking distance
Evacuation
of not less than 2.5 miles of a hut location.
Please describe your plan for
evacuation from the
backcountry location if
applicable?
Sykehuset innlandet Lillehammer
Medical care
Please describe the medical
Anders Sandvigs gate 17
care available in the area(s)
Lillehammer
where you will be traveling
47 06200
and list names and telephone
numbers for these facilities.
Sykehuset innlandet Gjøvik
Kyrre Grepps gate 11
Gjøvik
+47 06200
Granheim Lungesykehus
Turrsvevegen 3A
Follebu
+47 61 11 73 00
COST AND BUDGET DETAILS
Over the past two years there has been little flucuation of the
Foreign currencies
NOK and the US dollar. As such, I have used the current rate of
For int’l trips list each foreign currency, the
exchange. I have increaed the potential inflation rate by 10% on
current $US dollar exchange rate and what
all line items to offset any changes.
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?
Group Trip Deposits
The deposit payment of 10% is due 60 days before departure. Remaining 90%
What deposits will be required
from you by airlines, hotels, tour will be due 31 days before departure.
Cancellation/reduction of participants
operators, etc., and when?
When cancelling the tour more than 30 days and less than 60 days before
departure, there will be an administration fee of NOK 300
Group Trip Refunds
What is the latest date you can
cancel and still receive a full
refund of any deposits?
Participant deposits
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60 days
$800 with application. $800 Jan. 1, 2015. $800 March 1, 2015
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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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A full refund will be awarded if a replacement participant can be found and
enrolled.
Yes
No
If yes, please describe conditions:
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/application/
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/committee/proposals/
nholland@outdoors.org
amcatchair@comcast.net
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