Safety Guidelines

How To Avoid Accidents

The single best way to prevent accidents is to plan your hiking trips carefully, make adequate preparations and ensure all group members know how to enjoy safe hiking. During hikes, use sound judgement and acquired skills, and work closely with your companions, for maximum safety. Very few hiking accidents are the result of "bad luck". Most result from poor judgment, ignoring the land or weather conditions, taking "shortcuts", behaving hastily, or taking risks.