Presents six components to consider when planning interpretive walks: purpose, planning, preparation, preview, performance, and post-mortem. Emphasizes aspects of planning: audience identification and content, medium, and site selection. Indicates these concepts are also useful in planning slide talks, demonstrations, and workshops. (NEC)

The goals of this manual are to raise the level of safety, environmental awareness, and quality in outdoor adventure education, and to encourage the development of skilled, knowledgeable outdoor leaders through the compilation and dissemination of common practices and information. Other goals are to provide information for programs to use as a…