Marianne Page / ?
Trekking Patagonia - Chile & Argentina
SUMMARY OF TRIP INFORMATION
Trekking Patagonia - Chile & Argentina
Leader Marianne Page
Co-leader ?
El Calafate, El Chalten and Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina; Torres del Paine
and Puerto Natales in Chile
Feb 21, 2015 to March 7, 2015
Total # of days 15
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 8
Skiing-Downhill
Snorkeling
(Alpine)
Walking
Other – please describe Natural
History Tour
Select one of those checked above.
Maximum 10
$ 2850
Does it include airfare? Yes
No
$ 1900-2000
Will leaders assist participants with flights? Yes
No
First Appearance: Month September
Year 2014
Last Appearance: Month January
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. 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? This is a technical trip because of the
backpacking component; additionally, getting accommodations in lodges in TDP for a
larger group would be difficult.
If a participant fee increase of more than 15% is proposed, please explain why?
portion of the trip in TDP is backpacking.
LEADER AND CO-LEADER INFORMATION
Leader name
Leader address
Leader email
Leader phone
Wilderness first aid
training
CPR training
Prior leading experience
Trip one
Form Revised February 2014
Marianne Page
29 Bedard Ave Derry, NH 03038
marianne4nh@yahoo.com
Home 603 432-9249
Work
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: 11/2015
Cell
CPR
BLS
Expiration: 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.
Utah 2014 - 14 trippers. Morocco 2013 - 5 trekking trippers, 2015
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Trekking Patagonia - Chile & Argentina
Trip two
Trip three
Big Bend 2012 - 12 trippers
Tetons 2011 - 7 backpacker trippers
Other related trip
experience
NH Chapter Class I Trip Leader
Co-leader name
Co-leader address
Co-leader email
Co-leader phone
Wilderness first aid training
CPR training*
Prior leading experience
Home
Work
Cell
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration:
CPR
BLS
Expiration:
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.
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?
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below:
Leader has been trekking in Patagonia 4 weeks in 2004, including the W proposed
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
Form Revised February 2014
Fly to Buenos Aires, to El Calafate. Glacier tour. Travel to El Chalten for 2 day hikes in
Los Glacieres NP (Laguna Torre, Laguna de los Tres) & ice trekking on Viedma
Glacier). Travel to Chile to hike the W in TDP, staying four nights in refugios. There
will be two nights in Natales before the W and one night after. Return flight from Punta
Arenas via Santiago to U.S.
Hotels, hostels and lodges; W Lodges average about $100 per person with all meals;
hotels/hostels about $50 or less per person, with breakfast.
Hotels, hostels and lodges; W Lodges average about $100 per person with all meals;
hotels/hostels about $50 or less per person, with breakfast.
Buses, taxi cars/vans to be aranged by Mitsana Travels Chile.
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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:
All park permits aranged by Mitsana Travels Chile. There is a one time entry fee for
visitors to enter Argentina, which individuals must pay in advance (about $160 US).
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
Backpacks for gear, clothing and sleeping bags. Careful phone interviews will be
participant?
conducted if participants are not known to the leaders.
Pre-trip activities
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what you will do:
Do you plan to get your group Day hike and/or social event, depending on group's background and home city.
together before the trip for an
activity or social event?
We will be seeing and learning about an entirely different ecology than that of
Conservation, education and
the Whites and New England; there will be the opportunity to see glaciers,
recreation
How will this AMC-AT trip meet the
animals such as guanaco, flamingos, rhea, and huemul (a threatened species of
mission of the AMC?
Andean deer).
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:
We will have a naturalist/guide on the Perito Moreno tour, one we have used three times
entire trip?
before, a local college professor.
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
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if applicable.
Climate/terrain
Potential hazards
Response
Foreign Country
Potential hazards
Response
Transportation
Potential hazards
Response
Participants
Potential hazards
Response
Other
Potential hazards
Response
Trail conditions, river crossings, weather, wildlife (bears, snakes, etc.)
Weather in the regions of Chile and Argentina can be quite variable. High winds are
common; there are a few stretches of trail in TDP with stream crossings and rough
terrain.
Due caution and proper footwear are essential.
Political concerns, crime, language translation, terrorism
No problems currently in either country for US travelers.
Road conditions, drivers, insurance
Level of fitness, screening concerns, experience with equipment or activity
Conditions unique to this type of trip
Medical facilities are far from TDP
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
There is communication to the outside world at the various refugios we will use. In
Emergency communication
Phone contacts, language,
Argentina and Chile, we will be staying in towns and hotels with phone service and local
documentation, distance from
police and fire departments. Sam was able to deal with a medical evac from TDP in
emergency services
2014, with great help from Mitsana and Park and refugio staff.
Group first aid kits. International cell phone (coverage likely to be spotty). AMC satellite
Emergency equipment
What sort of emergency first
phone if available.
aid or communication
equipment (satellite phone,
two-way radios) do you plan
to use, if any?
All refugios in TDP have comunication with outside world and we will never be more
Evacuation
Please describe your plan for
than a several hours from one of them.
evacuation from the
backcountry location if
applicable?
El Calafate and El Chalten are pretty small places. The nearest real medical facility
Medical care
Please describe the medical
appears to be in Rio Gallegos, about 450km. Medical facilities are three to six hours
care available in the area(s)
away from TDP (in Puerto Natales and Punta Arenas), both reachable by public bus.
where you will be traveling
and list names and telephone
numbers for these facilities.
COST AND BUDGET DETAILS
As of July 3, 2014:
Foreign currencies
For int’l trips list each foreign currency, the
Chilean peso: $1 USD = 549 CLP Argentine peso: $1 USD = 8.14000
current $US dollar exchange rate and what
ARS http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/
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?
Will use Mitsana Travels Chile to book accommodations. Payment in full will be due
Group Trip Deposits
What deposits will be required
in December.
from you by airlines, hotels, tour
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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?
December 2014
Registration deposit of $1000 due with application. The final balance of $1850 is due
November 1, 2014.
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:
Form Revised February 2014
Published minimum penalty schedule: $1,000 minimum after the trip has been
declared a go. If actual costs (expenses already incurred on your behalf and any
unavoidable future expenses that will be incurred as a result of your registration and
cancellation) are higher, they will be assessed instead, unless they can be applied
toward another acceptable participant.
Yes
No
If yes, please describe conditions:
depends on fellow leader 7/3/14
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http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/application/
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nholland@outdoors.org
mikebarry657@mac.com
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