New community forms to make mountain sports safer

Whether you’re hiking or skiing, climbing or cycling, you often love the mountains for their peace and tranquility.  You go there to get away from the hubbub of other people, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t help others whilst you’re there.

For instance, I wrote a couple of years ago about a nice citizen science project, called Mountain Watch.  The aim of the project is to harness the passion of hikers to collect data about the flowers they encounter as they hike the trails.

The hope is that by recruiting hikers to the project, they will not only gain a better insight into the affect climate change has on the behavior of plants in the region, but also raise awareness of the various conservation issues they face in the wake of the changing climate.

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