Safety Tips

Fairfield county 

In Ohio

When someone asked if Mt Pleasant was wheel chair accessible, I thought I will add this part.

Better than me telling you what a hike up Mt Pleasant is like, here is a youtube video I added to my play list 

In this video: a 6:45 in the video is the steepest part At 6:50 in the video you would NOT fo left but RIGHT ->

I met this guy who made this video  and added him to the facebook page this year.

 As for danger, going up the trail has no more danger than tipping over on the gravel, the height of the wheel chair. In the years I know about no one has been harmed by sitting on the edge. It is those who climb up the rocks that are harmed.. and thousands that climb only have a fun adventure n photos for show n tell 

 I do not know of any areas below the trail up Mt P that are not easy to get around.. 

Surface on top 

Staying back by the trees, it is just dirt. You can see it in the top left behind the girls

 

"Wheelchair accessible" means a place or vehicle has been designed or modified to allow someone using a wheelchair to enter and navigate it easily, By No means fits Mt p

The park now has allterian buggies that come up if needed.

Eaier than climbing Mount Everest. Depending on the desire to make it happen I suppose.

Luke rides his bike up the trail non stop. Me (now 81) in the last couple years I have to stop a couple times.. holding on my pup and camera stuff.

How many hmmm just a few I found on Mr Google Here

With some guys/girls from a gym, a church group, family members, of course it would be possible and a great memory.

You would have to plan a great, not a lot of rain, sky not overcast and the path you would take when you got there.

Mapping out Mt P areas

When people call in I hear the guys ask where at. I  dont have a phone with the internet but I think all new phones include gps in photos

Who ever calls in could simply send a pic of anything where they were standing.. guess u have means to read metadata (if it is included)

Google "my-maps" are free, I just did this one of the post for a map I am working on

Because of the trees on the edge of mt p, a drone set of pics above the rails and below them might be included

An early concept of Mount Pleasant grids, but gps might be better.

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After another kid fell from Mt Pleasant, I saw em promoting keep on the trail, don't go beyond the rail.

I must have taken a couple hundred pics of the chipmunks climbing or sitting on the edge.. the same has been repeated over a century,

Spending a lot of time thinking about Mount Pleasant Projects I experimented with "my maps". A free Google platform this is one of mine

Using phones or cameras with gps you can upload photos to a Google "my-map", click on it, a little image will appear and the gps position
Me n da dog has most of the top layed out, but there is a big area below to be mapped out. I am no kid and trying to hold onto my pup, a camera and walking on rocks is not easy.

Trying to think of an outdoor type of group.. 
The idea is for them to team up, being safe and climb around all sides of Mount Pleasant, capturing gps positions

You can add contributors to your maps also.

In the years I have been coming up to the top of Mount Pleasant, no one has been hurt, sitting on the edge with their feet hanging over or back from the edge. Those who get hurt are the ones who climb on the rocks.

Mount Pleasant is the one love that keeps me gone . I have pages on different topics.

If a group created a gps map and a safety instruction page, I would be glad to add it to our Rising Park web page.

There are hundreds of visitors that come for the first time. One idea is to place a sign with a QR code.. kind of a safety outline .

I bought a special gps/compass camera for this idea. It not only gives the gps position but also the compass heading the camera was pointed .. (a special use)

The camera adds the gps and compass heading on the lower right

Being by myself climbing around is not the best idea 😏 But it might be a great project for an outdoor group .

I am not sure how rope climbing would be put to work but one of the videos on Mt P

I went out one of the remaining nice days and had to tie the pup to a post. It wasn't easy to get to the spots and I doubt few people would watch long if it were composed of a bunch of rocks.

Being an old guy there a lot, I figure most r thinking I should be on the couch watching the tube or locked up in a nursing home 😋I know how many think

A better crew would could climb around the rocks and go places hard for me.. 
This month I shared my goofy adventures 

I had not been below Mt P for over 60 years. I ended up here

Lost getting late, I squirmed through a crack up to the top but couldn't pull the pup up and I got some kids to come rescue her. A few weeks later they came up and told me.. :)

If you have a crew that walks the trails below and might contribute to the gps map.. 
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