1. Trail Maintenance and Construction tasks - Their Hazards and Recommended Safety Gear
(Documents)

This chart is intended as a guide and is not comprehensive. Basic safety equipment for all trail work includes a first-aid kit, boots, work gloves, long pants, and appropriate dress for the weather. Common ...

2. Tools Safety
(Documents)

3. Health and Safety
(Documents)

4. Safety Alert – Chain Sawyer Chaps
(News/Current News)

... safety standards. Many PATCers are certified sawyers and each has purchased, or was issued, chaps as part of their personal protective equipment (PPE). PATC wants to follow a logical system to identify ...

5. About the Crew
(Flying McLeods/About Us)

... tools, safety gear, and encouragement. We strongly recommend you wear long pants and hiking boots or work boots as well as heavy work gloves.  You must bring your own lunch, water, and your favorite ...

6. Join PATC
(PATC/Membership)

... concerning trails in our hiking region. PATC volunteering now goes well beyond trail, cabin, and shelter maintenance. For example: PATC’s Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group (SMRG) focuses on the safety ...

7. Great Eastern Trail - Carr Mountain
(The Stacks/Flying McLeods Archives)

... food, camping gear, and water for daily use, cooking, and drinking. Tools and safety gear will be provided. The forest road is gated, so participants must arrive and travel together. A meeting place, ...

8. Injuries to Volunteers: VIP Program
(Overseers/Health & Safety)

We who voluntarily construct and maintain public hiking trails are well aware of the physical nature of our avocation as well as of the tools we use. One thing we don’t often think of is what use need ...

9. 2008 District Report
(The Stacks/District Manager Archives)

... made outstanding use of new tools and safety equipment. They conducted monthly worktrips or projects on various sections of the A.T. in the district throughout the spring and summer, and are continuing ...

10. What is Poison Ivy/Poison Oak?
(Overseers/Health & Safety)

There are three native American plants that collectively may be called poison ivy: Poison ivy Poison oak Poison sumac These plants can cause an allergic reaction in nearly 85 percent of the ...

11. Lyme Disease
(Overseers/Health & Safety)

Trail workers should take precautions against Lyme disease, a debilitating tick-borne illness that can cause cardiac and neurological problems as well as arthritis. It is spread by black-legged ticks (deer ...

12. New Trail Construction or Relocations
(Standards & Techniques/SNP Trails Standards)

... manner promoting hiker safety and resource protection. No new trails, including reopening of abandoned trails, will be constructed within designated Wilderness.    ...

13. Stream Crossing Construction and Maintenance Standards
(Standards & Techniques/SNP Trails Standards)

... options before committing present and future resources to a crossing. Objective To provide a stream crossing within the trail corridor that promotes hiker safety and resource protection. A clearly ...

14. Clearing Fallen Trees and Windfalls
(Standards & Techniques/SNP Trails Standards)

... minimizes visitor-created detour trails which degrade the resource and complicate effective trail maintenance. General Standards Safety is the primary consideration. Do not attempt to remove large ...

15. Vegetation Maintenance
(Standards & Techniques/SNP Trails Standards)

... and Non-Wilderness Blue-Blazed trails The purpose for vegetation maintenance in these areas is to keep the trail open for moderate travel. Visitor convenience and safety are also considerations. Trail ...

16. Health & Safety
(Category)

17. SNP Trails Standards
(Category)

... tool to confine human use and associated resource impacts, serve to regulate access to or away from specified backcountry areas, and improve visitor safety in difficult or unfamiliar natural conditions. ...

18. Flying McLeods
(Section)

... crew works one day a month through the summer. Volunteers work under an agreement with the National Park Service. PATC provides training, safety equipment, and tools.  ...