Oslo to Stockholm
/Mark Chiurri
SUMMARY OF TRIP INFORMATION
Title of trip
Cycle Oslo to Stockholm
Leadership
Leader Len Weiss
Location(s)
Southern Norway and Sweden
Dates
July 3th to July 19th 2015
Type of trip
check all that apply
Backpacking
Bicycling-Mountain
Bicycling-Road
Camping
Cultural
Family
Hiking
Paddling-Canoeing
Paddling-Sea-Kayaking
Co-leader Mark Chiurri
Total # of days 16
Skiing-Cross-Country Skiing-Downhill
Snorkeling
(Nordic)
(Alpine)
Walks
Other – please describe
Minimum 12
Number of participants
(excluding leaders)
Advertised cost
$3700
Maximum 15
Does it include airfare? Yes No
Airfare range if not included $1100
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
First Appearance: Month September
Year 2014
Last Appearance: Month May
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. July, 31 2014
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
Len Weiss
Leader address
Leader email
46 Hawthorn Road, Brookline, MA 02445
lenweiss@gmail.com
Leader phone
Home 617-277-8403
Wilderness first aid training
WFA AWFA WFR Expiration: March 2015 - will renew before trip
CPR training
CPR BLS Expiration: expired – will renew before trip
Prior leading experience
If this is your first Adventure Travel trip as a Leader you must 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. Feel free to list
additional trips you have led, particularly if they demonstrate experience related
to the trip you are proposing.
Form December 2012
Cell 617-320-7024
Adventure Travel Trip Proposal Form, page 1 of 6
Oslo to Stockholm
/Mark Chiurri
Trip one
Wild Wyoming (Tetons) backpack 2011
Trip two
Danube bike – Passau to Vienna - 2010
Trip three
Glacier NP – day hiking - 2010
Other related trip experience Boston chapter Bicycling leader; mechanic skills
Co-leader name
Mark Chiurri
Co-leader address
854 Dorchester Avenue #3, Dorchester MA
Co-leader email
mchiurri@yahoo.com
Co-leader phone
Home 978-868-8176
Work same
Wilderness first aid training* WFA AWFA WFR Expiration: 2-2017
CPR training*
CPR BLS Expiration: 2-2016
Prior leading experience
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.
None more than 5 days for AMC (14 day trip coming up in August as Co-leader
with Dick Cable)
Trip one
Trip two
Trip three
Other related trip experience Cycling: Only day trips for AMC, 28 day trip with another cyclist from ME to
PEI in 2012
Hiking: Multiple 2-3 day trips for AMC, guided 2-4 day backpacks for
Condortrekkers in Bolivia, other personal backpacks in remote areas (South
America, Mongolia, Middle East)
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:
Co-leader: Yes No Leader will learn the basics, I know #s, greetings etc.
and will learn basic questions/directions related phrases.
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
Form December 2012
Adventure Travel Trip Proposal Form, page 2 of 6
Oslo to Stockholm
/Mark Chiurri
Summary
Please provide a description
of the trip and the activities
planned. If available please
include or attach an itinerary.
Fly into Oslo and meet at the hotel. Free afternoon and group dinner. The second
day we can organize an optional tour or pick some particular sights to see with a
group dinner that night. The following morning we will pick up the bikes and make
any final adjustments needed. The next 11 days will be spent cycling from Oslo to
Stockholm (please see the attached itinerary). On arrival to Stockholm we will have
a free night with some sightseeing the next day and a group dinner. In the morning
of day 15 take the train back to Oslo and return the bicycles. Stay the night in Oslo
with a group dinner. Return to the airport on day 16.
Mid range hotels, hostels, cottages and bed and breakfasts when they can handle a
Accommodations
Please describe your plans for group of this size.
accommodation(s)
All breakfasts and dinners will be included in the trip cost.
Meals
Please describe your plans for
providing meals
Taxi/Public transport from airport to hotel in Oslo by airport express train is
Local Transportation
Please describe your plans for included. Bicycle rental included as well as SAG support vehicle. Train from
local transportation
Stockholm back to Oslo included. Taxi/Public transport from Oslo hotel back to
airport is included.
Permits or permissions
Yes No
Does the trip require special If yes, please describe below what you will need to do to obtain them:
permits or permissions?
(required on many U.S.
If no, please describe the process you went through to find out that they were
federal lands and national
not required:
parks)
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: Bicycles and related gear will be
equipment?
provided by rental agency.
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
Appropriate conditioning and cycling experience.
participant?
Pre-trip activities
Yes No If yes, please describe below what you will do:
Do you plan to get your group Definitely, we will gather as many people as possible for a day trip/dinner.
together before the trip for an
activity or social event?
Conservation, education and This trip meets the mission of the AMC in that it includes physical activities
respectful of the environment. We will be experiencing a place culturally different
recreation
How will this AMC-AT trip
from where we live and pre-trip recommendations for reading on the history of the
meet the mission of the AMC? area will be made. Itinerary will include tours of both Oslo and Stockholm.
www.outdoors.org/about/
mission.cfm
TOUR OPERATOR AND GUIDE SERVICE INFORMATION
Will this trip require a tour
operator or guide service
during part, or the entire
trip?
Yes No
Please describe their services. If you are using a tour operator for the entire
trip, please describe why you will be using them rather than doing this trip on
your own: On the day tours of Oslo & Stockholm local knowledge may enhance
the experience at little cost.
Name of tour operator/guide
service
Tour operator website
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Oslo to Stockholm
Safety record
Please provide information
about their safety record.
Insurance
Do they have liability
insurance?
Emergency response
Please describe the outfitters’
response plan in the case of
an emergency.
/Mark Chiurri
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Liability? Yes No
Maximum amt: $
Are they willing to list AMC as an
Yes No
additional insured?
As we will be in a city setting any but the most minor injuries will be brought
immediately, by ambulance if necessary, to a quality hospital.
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
Traffic in city areas.
Response
Screening process will ensure participants are comfortable with cycling in cities and
with our route.
Political concerns, crime, language translation, terrorism
Foreign Country
Potential hazards
Response
Language, signage
Phrase books, basic lessons, route mapping with local language names.
Transportation
Potential hazards
Response
Participants
Potential hazards
Response
Road conditions, drivers, insurance
Normal cycling hazards
Travel medical insurance will be encouraged.
Level of fitness, screening concerns, experience with equipment or activity
Cycling experience,
Work with each participant on physical preparation as well as a pre trip cycle. Make
sure they are comfortable with the bicycles available. SAG support vehicle.
Conditions unique to this type of trip
Other
Potential hazards
Response
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
Emergency communication see below.
Phone contacts, language,
documentation, distance from
emergency services
We will be carrying a medical kit including bandages, splints, etc.
Emergency equipment
What sort of emergency first
aid or communication
We will carry a cell phone to contact local emergency services.
equipment (satellite phone,
two-way radios) do you plan
to use, if any?
Form December 2012
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Oslo to Stockholm
Evacuation
Please describe your plan for
evacuation from the
backcountry location if
applicable?
Medical care
Please describe the medical
care available in the area(s)
where you will be traveling
and list names and telephone
numbers for these facilities.
/Mark Chiurri
NA
Oslo
Oslo University Hospital
Street address
Sognsvannsveien 20
0372 Oslo
Inside Norway
02770
Outside Norway
+47 915 02770
Stockholm
Karolinska University Hospital, Solna
SE-171 76 Stockholm,
SWEDEN
Street Address:
Karolinskavägen, Solna
Phone: +46 8 517 700 00
COST AND BUDGET DETAILS
All costs will be in Norwegian Kroner and Swedish Krona
Foreign currencies
For int’l trips list each foreign currency, the $1 buys 5.93 Kroner
current $US dollar exchange rate and what $1 buys 6.57 Krona
contingencies you have if that rate changes. Bicycle rental agency will be paid in Kroner, most hotels have
If a tour operator or agent is being used,
option of USD if booked ahead.
what currency is the agent to be paid in?
Hotel deposits TBD, but generally can be cancelled within 2 weeks or less
Deposits
What deposits will be required without penalty. Airline reservations will probably be non-refundable but
by airlines, hotels, tour
participants will make these after trip fills enough to go.
operators, etc., and when?
90 days before start of trip
Refunds
What is the latest date you can
cancel and still receive a full
refund of any deposits?
$800 with application, $1,250 on January 1, 2015, balance due on April 1, 2015.
Participant deposit
What are the initial deposit and
your schedule of payments by
participants to you?
The AMC cancellation policy is based on the simple precept that your
Cancellation policy
What will your cancellation
cancellation shall not raise the cost of the trip to any of the participants or the
policy be for the participants? leaders. Therefore, if you cancel, your refund will be all that you have paid, less
expenses already incurred and future expenses which can not be avoided. If you
cancel and the trip still fully books, then your fees will be refunded in full with
the exception that, after airline tickets have been purchased, you own the tickets
and that part of the fee cannot be refunded.
Form December 2012
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Oslo to Stockholm
/Mark Chiurri
Minimum numbers
Yes No If yes, please describe conditions:
Will you still run the trip if you Leader and co-leader will discuss lowering minimum number when/if we see a
do not get the minimum
potential problem taking into account a min group size for safety.
number?
Reference web links:
AMC-ATC Home Page:
Forms:
Deadlines:
E-Mail Addresses:
Club House:
AMC-ATC Chair:
Form December 2012
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/application/
http://snebulos.mit.edu/orgs/amc/committee/proposals/
cyout@outdoors.org
amcatchair@comcast.net
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