NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Conducted Trips

Cover

Foreword

I. Introduction

II. Conducted Trip Mechanics

Before the Trip Starts
Start Something and Start on Time
Your Progress Along the Trail
Some General Suggestions
   Announcements
   Practice Conservation
   Pointers
   Accidents
Some Specific Suggestions for Specific Situations
   Extended or Difficult Hikes
   Overnight Hikes
   Horseback Trips
   Auto Caravans
   Bus Tours
   Boat Trips
   Historical and Archeological Trips
   Cave Guiding

III. Impromptu Interpretation

The Roving Ranger Naturalist and Historian
Focal Point Service

IV. Conducted Trip Interpretation

A Conducted Trip is for People
The Subject Field and Its Interpretive Characteristics
A Conducted Trip is an Illustrated Talk
   Take an Inventory
   Build up a Fund of Facts and Supplimental Information
   Define the Plot
   Make an Outline of the Trip
   Discover the Conservation and National Park Aspects
   A Conclusion
A Conducted Trip is a Story in Serial Form
A Conducted Trip is a Directed Conversation

V. The Interpreter