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Continue on for trail maintenance service trip information, or jump to the Energy Page and return here later. Wilderness areas are far from power lines, and batteries weigh a lot to backpack in. I'm studying light-weight energy sources that would be useful over a 10-day backcountry period.

The last major change was the addition of a general service trip description.

A Service Trip website guide page was added 6/15/98.

A Service Trip poster page was added.

A GPS page was added.

Other: Snowmelt runoff added; Wind River Pictures page; a Maroon Bells, Colorado tale was added

Lander Transportation information was added.

-- This is an unofficial website by a National Trip Leader.

This website also contains information about the volunteer service trips, wilderness areas, backpacking equipment, etc.

Here's more on a beautiful place in the Popo Agie Wilderness of west central Wyoming.

Of General Hiking Interest This section presents various topics interesting to wilderness hikers and backpackers, as well as to those who hike nearer to civilization.

The Ten Essentials for Survival in the Wilderness

A Brief Compass Course might help you avoid getting "misplaced" in the woods!

Bears and What to Do About Them! (1/98?)

Lightning Precautions for Hikers (4/99) Avoiding injury or death while hiking!

GPS Information (1/98?) for hikers. The Global Positioning System provides satellite navigation to find your position.

River Crossings (1/98?)

A guide to making river crossings in the mountain wilderness.

Outing Staff Information

Outings (1/98?)

The Sierra Club has a fantastic outings section on their website!

1996 Service Trip Staff Seminar (5/96?)

While this information is aimed at service trip staff, it is also of interest to local outings staff. You can anticipate that the next seminar will be as interesting.

Trail Maintenance (1/98?)

A guide to Trail Maintenance (1/98?) in the wilderness for passing to our participants with a welcome letter.

Guide Lists

Opening Night Topics (1/98?)
Things to brief the participants on at the opening night. (yet to come)

Working with the Agency (1/97)
by Homer Rudolf, 1993

A guide to dealing with the agency in arranging the service trip.

How to help the sponsor help us. How to understand their needs.

Equipment Lists (1/98?)
Items for trip planning (more to do)

An MS Excel 4.0 Trip Fill Estimator (1/98?)

This Tripfill spreadsheet can be used for your trip by entering the reservation data from the reservation forms that Sierra Club sends you. The program estimates how many participants you could have at the trip cutoff date one month before departure.

To automatically open your MS Excel, use the browser "Options, General Preferences, Helpers" to set a helper application to open MS Excel when ".xls" is opened. You can then save the spreadsheet and modify it as needed for your trip.

Service Trip Questionnaire (1/98?)

Please use the latest version from the club site. 

This form mimics the paper form, and may be emailed to a trip leader. The "mailto" address at the end may be changed to suit another trip.
This form provides information about you to your trip leader so that an acceptance decision can be made.

Service Trip Medical Form (1/98?)

Please use the latest version from the club site. 

This form mimics the paper form, and may be emailed to a trip leader. The trip number, name at the beginning, and the "mailto" address at the end may be changed to suit another trip.

This form provides medical information about you to your trip leader in case of emergencies miles from the nearest town. I provide a copy in a sealed plastic zipper bag to each of my trip members to carry in their day packs.

A Service Trip Website (1/98?)

A trip website page is a good way to keep in touch with your far-flung trip members. Here is information about making a webpage for your trip.

Look at my ongoing Wyoming trip website here for the Wind River Range near Lander, Wyoming. Note that you must reserve a place through the club, send me the required information, medical form, and liability form, and receive my approval to go on the trip. If you just show up, there will be no interaction with my group.

Typical Service Trips (1/98?) (Same as embedded in text above)

What's a Wilderness Area Like? (1/98?)

Here's my 2001 Service Trip Brochure for the magnificent Wind River Mountains (12/00)

Some (large file) Popo Agie Wilderness Photos from 1996 Service trip that I haven't yet sized down and take a long time to load (1/98?)

Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness Area near Aspen, Colorado in 1993 (1/98?)

And Now for a Word from Our Trail Hiker Customers

Favorite Websites

Wilderness Trail Maintenance (5/99)

Excellent tool description from the South Carolina State Trails Program

Excellent links page from the South Carolina State Trails Program

Bibliography page from the South Carolina State Trails Program

Sierra Club home page

Sierra Club Outings

Back to Sierra Club chapters.

The National Website of the Turtle Coast Group of the Sierra Club in Brevard and Indian River Counties near Melbourne & Palm Bay area of Florida

An unofficial website of the Turtle Coast Group of the Sierra Club in Brevard and Indian River Counties near Melbourne & Palm Bay area of Florida. This site will be transitioned to the national website and then used for general environmental purposes and not for Sierra Club.

Links to other environmental and hiking sites on the Web

Environment & Ecology at the Scrubjay's The Nature of East Central Florida
GORP for outdoors recreation information
Outdoors Recreation at Yahoo
The Discovery Channel features nature stories

Other Nonhiking Websites (1/98?) More about Lander, Wyoming

Lander WY Excellent; includes weather city guide, people finders

Lander WY Zonal Weather Teletype service of the National Weather Service for Lander area

Lander WY Weather forecast for Lander area

Snowmelt or Ablation Page for Wyoming

Wind River Snowmelt in the Wind River mountains near Lander, WY at Hobbs Park near the Bears Ears Trail

Middle Fork of the Popo Agie Snowmelt in the Wind River mountains near Lander, WY

Lander WY Area Radar actually Riverton Airport

Lander WY Area Information

  Lander WY Transportation Information Info

Please send me any other info you think may be of general interest

Other Interesting Sites:

Investment Decisions Ways to distribute investments. Past performance may be no guarantee of future performance, but why invest in funds that have a history of poor performance?

Engineers' Careers An interesting point of view to guide engineers in their careers. Not sure how I found this, but it seems most helpful.

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