Summer Safety Tips

Summer Safety Tips – Climbers

• Elk Range is comprised of loose rocks
• Warming temperatures, wildlife an climbers are factors in contributing to rock fall
• Caution should be used with handholds and footing
• Rocks are slippery when wet or snowy
• Plan your primary route ahead of time
• Prepare an alternate backup route
• Cairns can be misleading
• Be prepared for quick weather changes
• Expect possible high winds
• Altitude, dehydration and exhaustion impair judgment
• Do not get separated from your group

Summer Safety tips – Communicating position

Most smart phone have the ability to capture coordinates

• Example using an IPhone.
  1. Go to to privacy setting
  2. Turn Location Services to “on”
  3. Go to compass
  4. On the bottom read out the coordinates:  degrees , minutes ‘ and seconds “