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and instructions from tour op-
erators. "We try to give people
a sense of what they need to do
before they go," says Jim Tra-
verso, director of field opera-
tions, research and development
for Overseas Adventure Travel.
Preparations guidelines for
the Moroccan trip, for example,
recommended that participants
follow a program of regular aer-
obic exercise during the week
and take a series of long hikes
on the weekends — hikes of sev-
en to nine miles a day that in-
cluded steep terrain. That's not
the kind of training Jessica P.
did.
But sometimes the blame for
a bad trip lies with the tour op-
erators. "You get a lot of com-
panies that are guilty of making
the trip seem easier than it is
because they want to make the
sale," says Mr. Wiggins of Amer-
ican Wilderness Experience.
In other instances, a tour op-
erator may accept a participant
who is not physically up to a
trip. Participants should have
a physical examination with a
physician and discuss the de-
mands of the trips.
Overseas Adventure Travel
prefers participants to sign up
early — three months is optimal
— for its trips. But if someone
asks to join two weeks before a
tour is scheduled to depart, the
company usually won't refuse,
even though the participant
won't have had time to train
properly for it.
"It's out of our love for the
travel, and our belief that it en-
hances people's lives," says Jim
Traverso. "It's not just a busi-
ness decision."
Similarly, Abercrombie &
Kent, an Illinois-based tour op-
erator that conducts adventure
tours around the world, does not
require trip participants to pass
a fitness test. (For truly de-
manding trips, it asks for a cer-
tificate of release from a doctor
stating that the patient is
healthy, as well as a statement
from the client that he or she
understands what the trip en-
tails.)
"By and large, people are
pretty well prepared for what
they're getting into," says Per-
ry Lungmus, a spokesman for
the company.
Tour operators do acknowl-
edge that occasionally, a trav-
eler can't keep up. He or she
then has to be picked up by a
van, if bicycling; or to stop climb-
ing a mountain and wait for the
group to return.
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sent, Marcia Pomerantz, a New
York comic book dealer, biked
through France and Switzer-
land with an American Youth
Hostel group. It is not a pleas-
ant memory. Ms. Pomerantz
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