Marianne Page/Linda Haines
Utah Canyons Sampler
SUMMARY OF TRIP INFORMATION
Utah Canyons Sampler
Leader Marianne Page
Co-leader Linda Haines
Zion, Bryce, Escalante / Grand Staircase, Utah
September 20-28, 2014
Total # of days 9
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 12
Skiing-Downhill
Snorkeling
(Alpine)
Walking
Other – please describe
Select one of those checked above.
Maximum 14
$ 1590
Does it include airfare? Yes
No
$ 350 - $ 500
Will leaders assist participants with flights? Yes
No
First Appearance: Month January
Year 2014
Last Appearance: Month July
Year 2014
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 upon approval
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
Marianne Page
29 Bedard Ave, Derry, NH 03038
marianne4nh@yahoo.com
Home 603-432-9249
Work Retired
Cell
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: to be renewed in November 2013
CPR
BLS
Expiration: August 2015
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.
New Zealand- 2010 - backpack hut to hut - 14 participants
Teton Crest Backpack - 2011 - with 7 participants
Big Bend- 2012 - with 12 participants
Morocco - 2013 High Atlas trek with 5 participants
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Utah Canyons Sampler
Marianne Page/Linda Haines
experience
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?
Linda Haines
9 Whitewall Way, Littleton, MA 01460
linda.haines6624@gmail.com
Home 978-621-8010
Work
Cell 978-621-8010
WFA
AWFA
WFR
Expiration: 12/13 - needs to be renewed!
CPR
BLS
Expiration: will update before trip
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.
This will be my first Adventure Travel trip; CL application submitted on 9-23-13
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below:
CL Linda visited Bryce and Grand Canyon with family in 08, and was participant on
AMC Utah Cayons in May 2005; Linda is currently in Zion and Bryce 9/13.
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
local transportation
Will leaders or participants be
drivers of motor vehicles?
Permits or permissions
Form Revised July 2013
The plan is to hike 5 days and have one day to explore cultural areas, like the Escalante
Petrified Forest. It is a 4 hour trip from Las Vegas to town of Escalante; in case any
luggage is late in arrival, we will drive to Zion, stay 3 nights there, do 2 days of hiking
and continue to Bryce, do a hike/drive, and continue to Escalante. Stay for 3 nights, hike
and discover.
We plan to stay in Springdale near Zion, and in Escalante, use motel accomodations,
with breakfast included. In Escalante we have to buy our breakfast at Circle D motel We
plan on returning to Las Vegas on Saturday for a Sunday departure.
Breakfast to be taken at the motel, lunch bagged, dinner out. There should not be any
additional meals for leaders needed. If possible, we buy our own lunch fixings on the
way for Zion and Escalante.
We will rent SUVs/4 whell drive, in order to accomplish riding on tough roads in the
Escalante Wilderness area, most likely gravel. Will get latest information from
Ranger/BLM before departure. Read and talked with those who have been there.
Will leaders be drivers?
Will volunteer participants be drivers?
If so, MVR checks will be needed. See Appendix S1.
Yes
No
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Does the trip require special
If yes, please describe below what you will need to do to obtain them:
permits or permissions?
If we need any permits they can be gotten from the Ranger station at the time of the hike.
(required on many U.S.
If no, please describe the process you went through to find out that they were not
federal lands and national
required:
parks)
online research - will follow up with phone call.
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?
I suggest poles - in case of river walking rent boots and special pole.
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
Hiking experience to tolerate several days in a row in hiking boots. Long days despite
participant?
short trails in hot temperatures; tolerate small spaces in the canyons; do without luxury.
Pre-trip activities
Yes
No
If yes, please describe below what you will do:
Do you plan to get your group Maybe. I would like to plan a pre-trip excursion if sign-ups are willing.
together before the trip for an
activity or social event?
The landscape itself will be an education in geology & history of Indian cilturesConservation, education and
Anasazi and Fremont. Leave no trace. Petrified Forest visit. Guidebooks give
recreation
How will this AMC-AT trip meet the
lots of history of the area, which will be shared at the time of travel/hikes.
mission of the AMC?
Visistors Centers and Ranger Talks when available.
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
Potential hazards
Flash floods
Response
We will consult with the Ranger before each hike of the day as to weather and
conditions. On hikes we will keep an eye out for changes in weather.
Political concerns, crime, language translation, terrorism
Foreign Country
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Potential hazards
Response
Transportation
Potential hazards
Response
Participants
Potential hazards
Response
Other
Potential hazards
Response
Road problems - again will be up to Ranger/BLM office.
Rental vehicles will be 4wheel drive as suggested by previous leaders.
Road conditions, drivers, insurance
Mud, quicksand, flash floods.
do not go, and have 4wheel drive
Level of fitness, screening concerns, experience with equipment or activity
Heat, flash floods
Take lots of water on hikes. Sufficient protection against sun and prickely stuff.
Conditions unique to this type of trip
Only what is mentioned above
Awareness of weather before the hikes and during the day.
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
Ranger will have emergency response within the Park/Monument. We will be in close
Emergency communication
Phone contacts, language,
vicinity of stations/visitor officet. Contact Telephone
documentation, distance from
Emergency
911
emergency services
Garfield County Sheriff's Office
435-676-2678
Glen Canyon NRA (24 hr. Dispatch)
1-800-582-4351
Kane County Sheriff's Office
435-644-2349
Zion - Ranger and Visitor Stations
Emergency equipment
What sort of emergency first
aid or communication
equipment (satellite phone,
two-way radios) do you plan
to use, if any?
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.
Leaders will carry group First Aid, and have cell phones. We will not split our hikes in
the wilderness of Escalante N. M.
BLM/Ranger assisted if applicable.
No first aid is available within the monument. The nearest hospitals are located in Page,
Arizona, and Panguitch (about 60 miles northwest of Escalante) and Kanab, Utah.
Limited medical services are available in Escalante.
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?
No depostis will be made until the minimum of trippers sign on, although the Circle D
Group Trip Deposits
What deposits will be required
Motel will have to be reserved soon. There are no other early deposits foreseen.
from you by airlines, hotels, tour
operators, etc., and when?
Cancellation Policy
Group Trip Refunds
What is the latest date you can
Cancellation must be in writing –
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cancel and still receive a full
refund of any deposits?
Prior to May 1 -All deposit returned except $100.00 Non refundable portion.
Thereafter the non refundable $100 will be deducted plus any costs incurred, so as to
keep the per person cost from increasing. Should a replacement be found from a waitlist, all but the $ 100 will be refunded.
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?
$ 400 at sign-up, $600 in June, and $ 590 in July. (Change to make trip more
affordable).
Reference web links:
AMC-ATC Home Page:
Forms:
Deadlines:
E-Mail Addresses:
Club House:
AMC-ATC Chair:
Form Revised July 2013
$ 100 if canceled after first payment, any other payments only if participant is
replaced; airfare is tripper's responsibility.
Yes
No
If yes, please describe conditions:
We do hope to get a minimum of 12 to run the trip.
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amcatchair@comcast.net
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