[at-l] Wheelchair Access to Huts

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark)]

us lawyers just LOVE that word "reasonable!" :)

saunterer@jimbullard.org wrote:

> I don't know the exact wording of the ADA but the VESID (Vocational
> Education Services for Individuals with Disabilities) people I know tell me
> that the intent of ADA was to provide "reasonable" accommodation for
> disabled people to participate in the ordinary activities of life (holding
> a job, shopping, going to the movies, attending school, etc.).  A few
> people would like to make it apply to everything including some
> non-ordinary activities like climbing mountains.
>
> At 09:31 AM 08/23/2002 -0500, Rami wrote:
>
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>> Doesn't the ADA specify a /reasonable/ accommodation?  This sounds like
>> it's a bit outside the reasonable guideline.
>> Could just be me being insensitive, but that's the way I am  ;-)
>>
>>
>> -r
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: PMAnderson@apshealthcare.com
>>   To: rafe@oasissemi.com ; onestep4me@hotmail.com ;
>> at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>>   Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 9:24 AM
>>   Subject: RE: [at-l] Wheelchair Access to Huts
>>
>>
>>   you must be - I remember when they did it and there was an on-line
>> article
>>   complete w/ pictures.  They had people carrying planks to put over
>> rocks; in
>>   one shot they were being muscled up a steep rocky incline w/ poles
>> stuck in
>>   the chairs - looked like those old time sedan chairs...  ;-)
>>
>>   seemed like a lot of work to prove a point - that it was 'right' to
>> spend
>>   the cash to build the hut wheelchair to spec's.  Doubt that anyone
>> else has
>>   ever done it since then.  They had a very very large crew helping - not
>>   something your average family is going to be able to do... and for
>> me, this
>>   may sound cruel, but if you have that many folks helping you get up
>> there -
>>   coudnt they then help you up 2-4 steps at the hut?  ITs not like
>> someone is
>>   going to wheel themselves up there alone and have nobody to help
>> them into
>>   the building.  but, I do admit that wheelchair specs do make for
>> some nice
>>   design perks!
>>
>>   Cheerio
>>
>>   -----Original Message-----
>>   At 02:01 PM 8/23/2002 +0000, Kurt C. wrote:
>>
>>   >>To prove the point a team of chair
>>   >>bound hikers wheeled to the hut last summer.  It took them all day to
>> make
>>   >>it
>>   >>- but they did.
>>   >
>>   >They where assisted (carried).
>>   >It's impossible to "wheel chair" unassisted to that hut.
>>
>>
>>   "Impossible" ??  I somehow doubt that.  As I recall there
>>   is at least one very flat, short, easy path from Galehead hut
>>   out to a road.  A few stream crossings as I recall, but very
>>   little vertical.
>>
>>   Or am I thinking of Zealand hut?
>>
>>
>>   rafe b.
>>   aka terrapin
>
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