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SUMMARY OF TRIP INFORMATION
Title of trip
Leadership
3Trips in 1: Backpacking the Rainforest, Coast and Mountains of Olympic
National Park
Leader Andrea Deaton Christensen Co-leader Jon Christensen
Location(s)
Olympic National Park, Washington
Dates
8/23-9/1/2013
Type of trip
check all that apply
Backpacking
Bicycling-Mountain
Bicycling-Road
Camping
Cultural
Family
Hiking
Paddling-Canoeing
Paddling-Sea-Kayaking
Total # of days 10
Skiing-Cross-Country Skiing-Downhill
Snorkeling
(Nordic)
(Alpine)
Trekking (e.g., hut-to- Walks
Other – please describe
hut)
Minimum 6
Maximum 10
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
1090
Does it include airfare? No
400-550
Will leaders assist participants with flights? Yes
First Appearance: Month
May
Year
2013
Last Appearance: Month
July
Year
2013
Note: AMC Outdoors is only published in Jan., March, May, July, Sept., Nov.
Yes 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
If yes, why is a small group proposed? Backpacking trip/ technical and
Olympic only allows a maximum of 12 people for a backcountry permit
If a participant fee increase of more than 15% is proposed, please explain
why?
LEADER AND CO-LEADER INFORMATION
Leader name
Andrea Deaton Christensen
Leader address
PO Box 2952, Jackson, WY 83001
Leader email
andrea.deaton@gmail.com
Leader phone
Home 267-738-8048 (cell)
Wilderness first aid training
WFR Expiration:
CPR training
CPR BLS Expiration: 6/2013 (will renew)
Prior leading experience
Trip one
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.
Nepal Annapurna Base Camp Trek (Nov-Dec 2011)
Trip two
Costa Rica Hiking, April 2011
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Trip three
Hawai'i Backpacking Dec 2010-Jan 2011)
Other related trip experience Patagonia Backpacking 08-09, New Zealand backpacking 07-08, Yosemite 2007,
Kilimanjaro 06-07, Colorado Maroon Bells Backpack 2006, Belize 2006, Tuscany
Biking 2005 (co-lead), Tetons 2005 (co-lead)
Co-leader name
Jon Christensen
Co-leader address
P.O. Box 2952
Co-leader email
jlcnpsla@netscape.net
Co-leader phone
Home 307-690-1869 (cell)
Work
Wilderness first aid training* WFA AWFA WFR Expiration: 6/2013 (will renew and get AWFA)
CPR training*
CPR BLS Expiration: 6/2013 (will renew)
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.
Trip one
Trip two
Trip three
Other related trip experience assisted with two AT trips in 2012 (Yellowstone, and GTNP Family), See coleader
application for additional details
Scouting
Yes No If yes, please describe below:
Have either of you led this trip Andrea has been to Olympic National Park twice previously. We plan to visit
before or traveled to this area? Olympic in February of 2013 for a long weekend.
Languages
Not applicable
Does either the co-leader or
leader speak the local language?
Couples
Yes If yes, please list who has agreed to be your back-up in case one or both of
Do the leader and co-leader
you need to drop out. This is required for approval!
have a significant personal
Marianne Page has agreed to be the backup leader.
relationship?
Private trips
No If yes, please note that you cannot advertise AMC and private trips
Do either of you lead trips that together unless there is a clear distinction between the two in any materials
are private - not sponsored by you send out.
the AMC?
LOGISTICAL DETAILS OF TRIP
Summary
This backpacking trip will include one dayhike and five days of
Please provide a description backpacking on two different backpacking itineraries: one that is 3
of the trip and the activities
days/ 2nights on the coast (beach), and one that is 4 days/3 nights that
planned. If available, please
include or attach an itinerary. begins and ends in the rainforest and climbs significantly in the middle
to higher mountainous areas. It is a moderately strenuous overall
trip, and we will require previous backpacking experience.
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The first night we are renting the entire Toad Lily House in Port Angeles, WA. It is
Accommodations
Please describe your plans for a small house/ hostel type accommodations with a few private rooms and others with
accommodation(s)
bunkbeds, a full kitchen. We will camp in park campgrounds for 2 nights,
backpacking into backcountry campsites in the rainforest, mountains or beach for
five nights, and in a Seattle hotel (2 star) for one night.
All breakfasts and dinners are included. Participants must provide their own
Meals
Please describe your plans for lunches. We will grocery shop in Port Angeles (Toad Lily House is right next to
providing meals
Safeway). If we are traveling between locations around lunchtime, we might stop
for participants to eat lunch, otherwise lunches will be on the trail. Some dietary
restrictions will be accommodated (vegetarian/pescatarian, and gluten free); however
more extensive dietary restrictions (ie, no carbs, no sugar, no salt, etc) will require
participants to bring their own food and they will receive $110 in refund for the nonrestaurant breakfasts and dinners.
We will rent two mini-vans and one full-size sedan from Thrifty at SeaTac. We
Local Transportation
Please describe your plans for will ask for at least 2-3 additional volunteer drivers. If we only have the minimum
local transportation
number of 6 or 7 particpants, we plan to use just two vehicles. We will use a oneway shuttle at the beginning of one of the longer backpacking trip so we aren’t
requiring drivers to make a 4 hour extra drive (round trip) to shuttle cars. This
enables us to have the cars at Sol Duc when we finish and we will have access to
bathing suits, clean clothes, etc.
Permits or permissions
Yes
Does the trip require special If yes, please describe below what you will need to do to obtain them:
permits or permissions?
We contacted park staff at Olympic National Park and they have a non-profit
(required on many U.S.
Special Use Permit for $100 that needs to be completed before May 1 and is good for
federal lands and national
the 2013 calendar year. The permit application has been forwarded to Colleen Yout
parks)
since it requires insurance policies as well as other administrative documents from
the AMC.
Additionally, we need backcountry permits which can be obtained no earlier than 30
days in advance of the trip. Should we not receive our first choice for our permit, we
will ask for our second or third choice of campsites.
If no, please describe the process you went through to find out that they were
not required:
We called the park directly and spoke with their concession specialist.
Special equipment
Yes If yes, please describe below what type of equipment and how you will
Does the trip require special ensure that people know how to use it:
equipment?
In additional to regular hiking equipment (rain gear, boots, etc), participants are
required to own their own backpacking gear. We will share tents, stoves, water
filtration, and some cooking equipment, but participants should at a minimum own
their own properly fitting backpack, sleeping bag, sleeping pad and other
(lightweight) accessories for overnight backpacking. Each participant will be
required to have a functional watch/ timepiece in order to monitor the tides while
hiking on the beach.
Special experience
Yes If yes, please describe below what type of experience? Also describe how
Does the trip require special you will ensure that the participant has this experience?
skills on the part of the
The trips requires previous backpacking experience. The longest day is 10
participant?
miles and the highest climb in 3000’. We would like each participants to have
previously done both distance and climbing-- moderately strenuous to strenuous
backpacking with a full backpack.
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Pre-trip activities
Do you plan to get your group
together before the trip for an
activity or social event?
If yes, please describe below what you will do: Unsure
It is possible that we will be able to schedule a time to come back east to do a pretrip backpack over the summer; however, we are not positive. At a minimum,
however, all trip participants must have participated in an AMC trip previously,and
preferably have a recommendation from an AMC backpacking trip leader before
being accepted on this trip. All participants must have backpacked moderately
strenuous terrain in the recent (2 years) past.
Conservation, education and
recreation
How will this AMC-AT trip meet the
mission of the AMC?
www.outdoors.org/about/mission.cfm
This trip will provide significant opportunities to have dialogue and compare
and contrast different conservation strategies on the Olympic peninsula. We
will be driving through National Park, National Forest and State Recreation
lands including lands clear cut for forest products and congressionally
protected wilderness areas, seeing first hand the effects on the land of these
management strategies. We will also be hiking through and learning about
the diverse plant communities on the peninsula as we hike through beach and
tidepools, forest, temperate rainforest (which is the most biologically diverse
ecosystem in the continental U.S.), subalpine and alpine plant communities.
We will be learning about the role wildlife (specifically Roosevelt Elk) play
in maintaining balance in the rainforest community. Prior to our beach hike,
will include a special training session to show each participant how to read a
tide chart.
TOUR OPERATOR AND GUIDE SERVICE INFORMATION
Will this trip require a tour No
operator or guide service
Please describe their services. If you are using a tour operator for the entire
during part, or the entire
trip, please describe why you will be using them rather than doing this trip on
trip?
your own:
Name of tour operator/guide
service
Tour operator website
Safety record
Please provide information
about their safety record.
Insurance
Liability? Yes No
Do they have liability
Are they willing to list AMC as an
insurance?
additional insured?
Emergency response
Please describe the outfitters’
response plan in the case of an
emergency.
Maximum amt: $
Yes No
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
Tides, Slippery Rocks along ocean, Muddy conditions in rainforest
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Response
Foreign Country
Potential hazards
Response
Transportation
Potential hazards
Response
Participants
Potential hazards
Response
Other
Potential hazards
Response
Each participant will receive a tide chart for the time and locaiton of the hike.
Leaders will review use of the charts with each participant before beginning the
beach hike. This will ensure that a tide chart is always available and that participants
are familiar with use. Hikes will be timed for the tides. Participants will be required
to have a watch to ensure that everyone is aware of the time for navigating tides.
Trail conditions will be communicated to other participants by those in front and
assistance will be given by leaders as necessary. Hiking poles will be strongly
encouraged. Group will stay together and a sweep will be used to ensure everyone
makes it safely.
Political concerns, crime, language translation, terrorism
None
None
Road conditions, drivers, insurance
Wet Roads,
Road conditions will be evaluated throughout the trip. Two way radios will be used
by passengers to communicate road condition concerns to drivers.
Level of fitness, screening concerns, experience with equipment or activity
Unfit for moderately strenuous backpacking, infamiliarity with tides,
Thorough screening and contacting of backpacking references they list on their
application. Inexperienced applicants will be required to participate in an AMC
weekend trip and leaders will be consulted on performance. Participants will be
educated regarding tide navigation.
Conditions unique to this type of trip
food storage: bears, raccoons & wildlife
We will use bear canisters to store food while camping, and in the backcountry there
are bear hangs. Olympic has black bears (not grizzly) but bear spray is not
necessary; we will be traveling in a group which will reduce the chance of surprising
a bear. Raccoons are very prevalent on the beach. We will use the (required) bear
canisters for our food there, keep the pockets of our packs unzipped and off the
ground. Upon arriving into camp we will immediately place our food and scented
items into the bear cansisters.
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 Backpack will be at most 2 days hike from Trailhead, Shorter distance from
Phone contacts, language,
helicopter landing zones. Trailheads are at most 30 miles from nearest hospital.
documentation, distance from Itinerary will be left with park rangers.
emergency services
First Aid Kit (primary and secondary), Cell Phone, Two Way Radios
Emergency equipment
What sort of emergency first
aid or communication
equipment (satellite phone,
two-way radios) do you plan
to use, if any?
Assistance will be requested from the National Park Service
Evacuation
Please describe your plan for
evacuation from the
backcountry location if
applicable?
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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.
Forks Community Hospital; 530 Bogachiel Way; Forks, Washington 98331 (360)
374-6271
Olympic Memorial Hospital
939 Caroline Street; Port Angeles, WA 98362 (360) 417-7000
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?
$25 non-refundable deposit required for rental of hostel in Port Angeles;
Group Trip Deposits
What deposits will be required group campsite at Sol Duc is non-refundable ($32) and can be reserved as early as
from you by airlines, hotels, tour March 1. We will make reservations for the backcountry permit 30 days in
operators, etc., and when?
advance at which time they need to be paid for—we should know whether the trip
will be going by July 25, so that should not be an issue. Seattle hotel only requires
48 hours notice of cancellation. Once the Special Use Permit is completed, there is
a $100 non refundable fee for it, as well. The deadline is May 1 for the SUP, and
presumably we will not have our trip filled prior to May 1 (however, that is
speculation). The SUP is good for one year for any other AMC trip that will be
run through September 2014.
Feb 28. If the trip is approved, we intend to reserve the house in Port
Group Trip Refunds
What is the latest date you can Angeles ($25 non refundable deposit), and the Sol Duc group campsite ($32 non
cancel and still receive a full
refundable fee) aa of March 1.
refund of any deposits?
$500 required with application; final $590 due July 1.
Participant deposits
What are the initial deposit and
your schedule of payments by
participants to you?
If a replacement participant is found after a participant cancels, the cancelling
Cancellation policy
What will be your cancellation partcipant will be refunded their full amount paid minus $50. If no replacement is
policy for the participants?
found, the participant will be expected to pay all costs/ fees that would be required
to not raise the cost of the trip for the other participants. Participants will be
encouraged to take our trip insurance to cover cancellations due to emergencies
Minimum numbers
Yes If yes, please describe conditions:
Will you still run the trip if you
We are willing to run the trip with a minimum of 6 participants.
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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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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