[at-l] AD Policy

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

I think all (maybe just many?) of the Long Trail shelters have a standard 
emergency contact information sheet posted in each shelter.  It's the same 
poster you might see in a building somewhere but if I remember correctly, 
the information tells which trailhead to use to get to a phone and where to 
go once you get to the road.

I don't think informal registers are a reliable enough way to disseminate 
important information.  They are too often filled and removed, used for 
tinder, or just plain falling apart in the humidity.  While some area clubs 
supply and collect the registers, most registers seem to "belong" to the 
person who placed them there.  Hi use areas have such rapid turnover taht 
information would be lost all too frequently.

I also like the idea of a shelter "notebook" with important "local" 
information - from emergency numbers, to small informative ads, and maybe 
even a bit of area history.  This should certainly keep the scraps left in 
the shelters to a minimum.

Small roadside signs would also be useful.  While there are many crossings 
where it's obvious what road you're on, there are other areas where if you 
have to count roads, sometimes you don't know whether to count that slightly 
overgrown old but still passable road you just passed.  Not all maps are all 
that useful in those situations.

Mara
Stitches, GAME99

>From: Trailwife@aol.com
>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:41:24 EDT
>
>...
>Generally when registers are placed by Maintaining clubs, or shelter 
>adopters
>such information is included. These generally also inclued the numbers of 
>the
>proper police, rescue, medical and like emergency services. It's the ones
>placed by hikers that don't have such information.
>
>The OldRidgeRunner

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