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 

Surface on top 

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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,

There are hundreds of visitors that come for the first time. One idea is to place a sign with a QR code by the water fountain at the bottom.. 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)

Below here the trail has a steep dropoff ,

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

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.. :)

 

Humpty Dumpty

Through the years I have seen more than one event to remember someone who died.

This week I saw a pic on a cross of a boy who fell and they are raising money for the family.

I have been on the back side and it is super dangerous. A couple years ago I got stuck and some kids had to rescue puparonia.

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Below where the metal steps (Devil's kitchen) on the 'trail' it could be  a disaster.

Coming up the side by Maple street, so steep and places to fall.

Will the park shut down access to it all and have guards to keep people out?

In the daytime from the fairgrounds are pics of them climbing below.

From the fairgrounds trying to capture the moon over Mount Pleasant there they are with their flashlights climbing around after dark.

The draw of Mount Plrasant is the height factor.  Being in high places and climbing is something that draws people.

There are those who come to Rising Park, to do nothing there but to park their cars so they can walk to the top of our perch.

I have been on top several times when the police came up to make people get back behind the rail.
With in minutes after they leave, people are right back in the same places.

I suppose if the danger factor was studied, they might collect the emergency squad runs over the years?

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When it snows the trail is bad but after it thaws and refreezes it is a fall ready to happen.

Will they close the trail when it snows. 

How a mounted camera would add danger, I do not know, but i have seen them dancing all over the shelf doing selfies.

As for danger is being on the other side of the rail, I have never fell out of bed.

 Everyone who fell has been climbing on the rocks or face of Mt P.

With a camera on that area, there might be lots of people calling the police .. bugging them or there might be a speaker like a life guard bull horn ..

Henry B. Peters, Ida R. Peters, and George P. Rising with friends at Mt. Pleasant in Lancaster, Ohio from ca. 1880-1890. 

This is the front of a black and white photograph depicting Henry and Ida Peters along with George Rising sitting on Mt. Pleasant with some friends. 

According to the photograph, Henry Peters is the man second from the left with a full beard, while Ida Peters is the woman in the center wearing a dark floral print dress. George Rising is the man sitting furthest on the right

 


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