Plan with qualified people how help reaches an injured participant and how they reach appropriate care. Use the actual route, terrain, communications and group needs. Assign responsibility for the remaining group as well as the person needing help.
An evacuation plan answers how help reaches the person and how the person reaches appropriate care. It must be developed by qualified people for the actual activity and location.
Identify emergency access points, communication limits, transport options, likely delays, and the responsibilities of outside services. Do not promise helicopter rescue or a fixed response time without a basis.
Plan who supports the affected person, who manages the rest of the group, who contacts help, and who keeps the log. Consider a guide being the injured person.
Check whether participants can safely wait, move, or shelter under the approved plan. This handbook does not teach technical rescue or wilderness medicine.
Carry relevant care information and emergency contacts securely. Arrange how families or adult emergency contacts are informed without delaying urgent help.
Connect evacuation planning to route choice. If a foreseeable need cannot be managed with the available competence and resources, change the route, group, or offer before departure.
Your task: Run a tabletop scenario at the least convenient point of the route and identify every unconfirmed assumption.
