Popchikovsky V.Yu. Organization and conduct of tourist trips. Safety on a camping trip Now about the requirements for tourists

Many people have heard that there are such things as “Certificates for a hike.” They were born in the USSR, as an integral part of the sport “Sports tourism”. Whether it is a sport or not (personally, I think not, since I don’t see people competing with anyone in this activity) is not important for the purposes of this article. The fact that your hike has become “sporty” does not mean at all that you should now run under a backpack with a stopwatch. This is just a hike organized and carried out according to certain rules. Such certificates are issued by the public organization Federation of Sports Tourism of Russia (FSTR) through the Route Qualification Commissions (hereinafter referred to as “ICC”) authorized by it (note that the Russian Federation itself does not participate in this in any way - this is for those who like the phrases “officially released on the route” “official certificates” and so on). Despite the long names, there is nothing scary.

Why are certificates needed?

A trip certificate is a document about your tourist experience. What’s important is that it was issued by an independent party, people who looked at the hike you were on, unbiasedly, and assessed it according to some unified system that allows you to compare the difficulty of your hike with others. I organize a lot of hikes, and perhaps the most important question I ask a stranger who wants to backpack with me is: “What is your hiking experience?” As a rule, you have to talk to a person for a long time to understand what exactly he managed to go through. Different people evaluate and describe their experiences in different ways. For some, one-day trekking in Krasnaya Polyana is already a mega-super-adventure, and a 3-day hike in the Crimea is a mountain hike, and someone describes their hike like this: “there were cute little goats and such beautiful valleys, I walked and was happy,” although in fact they had some pretty bouncy passes there. And if a person simply says: “I have a certificate for walking a unit,” then this greatly simplifies the conversation. I will already understand what approximately the person has experienced, and this experience is not fictitious and is not the fruit of his subjective assessment of himself.

There may be a situation where the trek leader knows you well, has walked with you a lot, or you were able to convince him of your experience. But the leader is going to lead a hike from the 2nd category and above, wants to register it with the ICC (to get certificates for it), but according to the rules you can go there when the participants already have a certificate (“ formal experience“, as it is called) for a hike in the category below. But you don't have it. Convincing ICC members that you have experience without a certificate is almost impossible. As a leader, they will not go to training sessions with you and drink beer, they will simply look at documents.

Maybe you also want to apply for a sports category in Sports Tourism. This in itself is useless, but funny. Certificates from your previous trips will also be useful for this.

Procedure for obtaining certificates

In general, the algorithm is as follows:

Are you planning a hike?

You're planning normally. In addition to reasonable criteria, if you want your trip to be considered a categorical trip, you need to plan it so that it meets certain requirements of the FSTR for your type of tourism (a certain set of kilometers of path and various obstacles). In sports tourism, there are as many as 10 of these types of tourism (Attention: there is no classification criterion and logic of division, accept it):

• walking (wherever you can walk);
• skiing (no one has heard of snowshoes, and no one knows where to take them);
• mountain (only if your hike is in the Caucasus, Altai or Fanakh-Pamir. The Khibiny Mountains, the Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes in Kamchatka, the Urals, the Andes and the Cordillera are not mountains :) There you will have a hiking route);
• water;
• bicycle;
• auto-moto;
• equestrian;
• sailing (but not on yachts! If you are sailing on a ship that your crew cannot carry, then.. you are apparently not a sports tourist :) So why the hell will you register your crossing of the Atlantic);
• speleo (how did it get here?!);
• combined

Specific requirements for each type of tourism can be easily found on the Internet.

If you are reading this article, then most likely you are going on your first category hike, the simplest one - a first category hike.If your route is, for example, mountainous, then you need to pave a path of 100 km through at least two passes 1A, if there are fewer, then this is a non-category route, if there is at least one pass 1B, then this is already a “route of the first category with elements of the second” - Most likely, the IWC will not allow a group of beginners to go on such a route.

Fill out the route book

Here is a link to the printable file, which is also a sample filling. (Print with double-sided printing sheets 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and 7 separately - this is the cover. As a result, you should get an A5 booklet, staple it. You don’t need to squeeze the map/hiking diagram into point 4 halfway A4 sheet of paper, but printing out a normal map and putting it in a book will only make everyone happy.) You should already have all the information that needs to be entered in the route book if you prepared the trip normally. Personally, I just copy data from my favorite Google spreadsheets into this weird printable form. And I put the tracks of different route options on one map using nakarte.me and print them. In paragraph 2, where the list of participants is, indicate their full names and contacts of relatives. This is necessary because only relatives in the hospital can be told what happened to the person, and only they can be given a corpse. You will have a second copy of the route book with you on the route - another backup of contact information with phone numbers will not hurt. If you don’t know how to fill it out, leave it blank. The MCC will tell you, if anything, fill it out by hand on the spot. As is clear from the text above, we print the book in two copies, sign it wherever we can and take it to the ICC.

Application for a trip to the ICC

There is a route-qualification commission in almost every region of the Russian Federation; Moscow has its own MCCs in large tourist clubs at universities. The Moscow City MCC is located at 17 Solzhenitsina Street (enter the courtyard and go up to the second floor, they don’t even have money for a sign), and it meets on Wednesday evenings (you can catch someone from 19.00). If you live in Moscow and are not a member of one of the large tourist clubs, go straight there. The ICC is a party of fellow tourists, the sand from which does not flow, as a rule, because it has turned to stone. They work there completely voluntarily and for free. Therefore, they don’t owe you anything. In the Moscow MCC, the main action takes place in an auditorium reminiscent of a school class, where during recess people are divided into groups based on interests. One of these groups is the members of the subcommittee for your type of tourism. If you have not found their contacts before and have not contacted them, ask and they will tell you who to go to.

First of all, they are interested in the type of tourism (suddenly you came to the wrong place), the category of the trip (suddenly you need to call more experienced colleagues) and the region of the trip (suddenly there are no experts at the table in the region where you are going). Tell them right away, “I want to claim a single boat in the Amazon.” And hand them your minibuses with maps. It is difficult to perceive information by ear, so they will read what you wrote in the route book. All sorts of questions will be asked. Of course, the watchman (signer) syndrome is fully present, and you will definitely be told that the route is too short/long, difficult/simple, etc. They will definitely write something in the “ICC comments” column. Sometimes, when everything was absolutely flawless, they wrote to me: “The route book is drawn up carelessly” or about the mountain unit with passes 1A - “Pass the passes in the morning hours.” In short, they are obliged to write at least something, take it calmly. Maybe they won’t like everything at all, and they will tell you to redo the route/reprint the minibus. Therefore, preliminary contact by email with people from the ICC for the purpose of consultation (showing them your plans) can reduce the number of trips to the organization.

When they are satisfied with the semantic part of your plan, they will most likely ask you the question: “Are you going to participate in the championship?” This does not mean your personal participation in the championship, but the participation in it of your report on the campaign. If you want to get a sports rank, then you need to take part in this championship, and, therefore, write a report (about it below). If you don’t care about ranks, then just say: “No, we just need certificates.” Then the members of the IWC, perhaps, if you are going to a unit that is not interesting to them in a long-trodden and well-described area, will write to you in the minibus that the protection of the trip will not be carried out in the form of a written report, but by showing photographs and a GPS track. Writing a report usually takes a lot of time and effort, and also requires collecting information during the trip. So if you don't need ranks, then avoiding writing a report is an important task.

After collecting three signatures of the ICC members (you will be told who to sign from), put a stamp on the secretary of the tourist club, leave one copy with him and go home to shake the dust off your backpack.

Let's go hiking

When you signed the route book and stamped it at the ICC, you were told who from the tourist club should report on the group’s progress on the route. In short, it contains the number of the person to whom the SMS should be sent: “Ivanov’s group set out on the route in full force “route book number”.” And the same SMS about the end of the route. There are many groups, so the name of the leader and the minibus number is welcome. If you do not signal the completion of the route for a long time, this person will begin to worry, call relatives (their contacts are in the route book) and rescuers.

During the hike, you will have to take photographs at all sorts of key points along the route - passes, mountains, and elsewhere with the whole group at once. The task is to prove that you were all really here. Also take photographs of technically difficult areas (crossings, slopes, rapids, etc.) and how your group overcomes them. The task is to prove that you really had obstacles of a certain complexity that make this hike categorical. It is better for the manager to take photos for the report using a separate camera, otherwise that deFachka photographer with a camera that weighs more than her will post photos six months later, after she has “processed” everything, and you have to write a report.

If you want to write a good report, then appoint a chronicler who will write down the times of stops, transitions, weather, etc. in a notebook. It's easy to write a report from a good chronicler's notebook.

Writing a report

Find an example of a good report. For example here. Most of the reports are collected on tlib.ru And write according to the sample about your trip. Be careful and do not post photos that demonstrate a clear violation of safety regulations. The leadership of the trip may not be counted, or the report may not take a high place at the championship. In general, the initial meaning of the report is not to obtain information, but to describe the trip with a maximum of technical, rather than lyrical, details for those who want to repeat your hike or walk part of your route. So write a report as an instruction for a tourist like you who wants to get all the information about the planned trip.

You print the report, staple it and take it to the MCC. As with the application, it is highly recommended to send an electronic version to the ICC members in advance to eliminate shortcomings.

If protection was assigned to you by showing a photo and a track, then simply merge it all into a folder on your laptop and go with it to the MCC.

We protect the report and receive certificates

Defending a campaign is about the same thing as an application. They also ask questions and if everything is OK, they write on the minibus that the hike is counted in such and such a category. This is usually the same category as stated. If you cut somewhere, the category may become smaller. If it was, for example, a hiking trip, and the crossings were deeper than expected, the category may increase relative to the declared one.

ICCs have difficulty raising money to pay for the rent of the premises where they meet, so certificates for each participant must be printed out themselves. Here is the help form. If someone did not participate in some part of the route (for example, did not go radial skiing in the mountains), then such participants may be counted in a lower category. Please note that the reverse side records the local obstacles passed by the participant, indicating the category of obstacles - this is important information for assessing the participant’s experience. The certificates are affixed with the signature of the ICC member, the route book number and a seal.

Legalization. How to trick your ears and get certificates without declaring a trip

Often the situation arises that people already have some kind of hiking experience, and they want to get certificates for it, but they don’t want to go to the unit again and spend their vacation on it.

Then you are allowed to have fun once in your life. You just go on a hike that actually corresponds to the category, but is not declared (there is no route book). Then write a report and bring it to the ICC. Also look for a subcommittee for your type of tourism, but start communicating with them with the words “I want to legalize the trip.” If your report is normal, then the certificates will be signed for you and stamped, but instead of a number they will have “b/n”.

Something like this. The main thing is to remember that the main thing is safe and joyful travel, not pieces of paper :)

I organize many hikes, including category ones, which I post in my group on VKontakte.

Joining the hike is easy. Main–your wish!

If you haven't been hiking before: to participate in most programs, no special training or experience is required, so you shouldn’t worry that you won’t be able to do it, the main thing is desire, everything else will follow. Instructors have the necessary experience in organizing a tourist trip and will share it with the participants during the trip.

All the instructors you can see on our website are professional travelers who, on their own initiative, constantly go hiking and go on a variety of trips. So great to be able to join them!

If you've never pitched a tent or cooked food over a fire, now's the time to try it, it's all a lot of fun! :) Even the seemingly difficult climb to the top of Elbrus is actually not so difficult. If you think that such a pleasure is still not for you, just choose one of the active programs available on our website with accommodation and meals at a camp site or in a hotel.

And of course, no matter what trip you choose, you will definitely make new interesting acquaintances while hiking!

Organization of tourist trips

Organizing and conducting tourist trips is the specialty of professional travelers (instructors), whom you can find on our website. We invite everyone to participate in hikes in winter and summer! All you need is:

1. Decide where you want to go(at least preliminary) and Send an application - click on the orange button in the table with the dates of the trip. The coordinator will contact you after submitting your application, and you can ask him all your questions. Thus, we We will fully orient you and give you the necessary information. From now on, you are a potential participant in the hike you have chosen.

Each route has a coordinator, his name and contacts are indicated on the route page. Before submitting your application, you can call or write to the coordinator (if you don’t know who your coordinator is for the route you are interested in, call the toll-free number from anywhere in Russia 8-800-200-70-23) and ask all your questions. We will be happy to help you choose a hike or active tour!

2. Get information by email or in person and conclude an agreement. If you live in St. Petersburg or Moscow, you can come to our office (addresses below on this page). For participants from other cities, we will answer all questions by correspondence or by phone.

3. Make an advance payment(25% of the cost of the trip) to reserve a place in the group. Prepayment is possible in cash at the office or by bank transfer to the bank account of our organization. The coordinator will send the details.

4. Buy tickets(usually not required for weekend trips). The cost of tickets is not included in the cost of the trip. We will provide you with information for purchasing a ticket yourself: the time by which you must arrive at the group meeting point, the date. The time after which you can leave the end point of the route, date. We will inform you about the numbers of convenient flights or trains, and the numbers of cars in which other participants are already traveling. You can meet on the road! And after the end of the hike, you can stay at a resort or in an interesting city and extend your vacation for any period of time; the instructor will help you find inexpensive housing! It is not necessary to leave on the day the route ends.

5. Pack your backpack and go hiking! Or pack your suitcase if you are going on a tour without backpacks :) The cost of hikes indicated on the website includes all expenses on the route (food, vehicles, excursions, general group equipment, including tents, etc.). For rafting we provide catamarans or kayaks, life jackets, and waterproof bags. If you don’t have personal equipment (backpack, sleeping bag, foam mat, seat foam, trekking poles, crampons, ice axe), you can also rent this from us.

Before you go on a hike, you need to be well prepared for it.

This preparation begins with the formation of the group. The most important thing - the choice of the hike route - depends on who will be in its composition, what is the physical training and tourist experience of the hike participants, what tasks they set, what time and funds they have.

It’s natural to want to discover something new, to go through something that hasn’t been done yet. Our country is so vast, it has so many wonderful corners that there will be enough interesting routes and discoveries for a lifetime.

The route is easier to follow when it is well thought out and studied. Then you will have more time and energy to get acquainted with interesting places and, of course, the safety of the hike will increase and the likelihood of changing or not completing the route will be minimized. Groups of novice tourists and those traveling to a particular area for the first time should use one of the reference routes. These routes are the most logical and interesting, introduce you to the sights and include obstacles characteristic of the area. Advice on the route can be obtained at the tourist club or at the ICC. There you should also read the reports on the trips of other tourist groups.

When developing a route, you need to collect all the necessary information about the hiking area, using maps and diagrams, descriptions of difficult obstacles, information about weather conditions, transport capabilities, the condition of roads and crossings, etc.

All preparatory work must be carried out in an organized and systematic manner. To do this, a plan is drawn up and responsibilities are distributed among group members.

Based on the duration and complexity of the route, the composition of the participants in the hike and the intended tasks, general and special equipment, repair and medical kits are prepared. The group's caretaker draws up lists of products, outlines where it is best to purchase them, and decides on packaging issues. The obtained data on the route, equipment and food allow us to determine the total weight of the cargo, the weight of backpacks on approaches and on the main route, and to draw up cost estimates.

It is necessary that all participants in the hike have not only similar skills and knowledge, similar interests, but also approximately the same physical training. To do this, 2-3 months before the trip, joint training sessions should be organized, during which tourists improve physically and master technical skills and techniques for overcoming obstacles. Weekend hikes, tourist rallies and competitions should be used for these purposes.

During joint weekend hikes, methods of movement, overcoming natural obstacles planned on the route, methods of collective belay and self-insurance are practiced, equipment is checked and modified. Specially created heavy loads in these hikes make it possible to identify and compare the physical condition and training of individual participants.

Joint training and organizing overnight stays contribute to the psychological “breaking in” of group members. We must strive to ensure that already in the process of preparation the group becomes a single, well-coordinated team, ready to successfully solve the assigned tasks through joint efforts.

Technical competitions for different types of tourism help to practice techniques and test equipment. It is useful to participate in them, but, of course, you should not get carried away only by them, forgetting about the most important thing in tourism - travel. Competitions were invented by tourists. At first they were held as part of tourist rallies and were very simple. Their program included: setting up a tent, lighting a fire, crossing a log across a river or ravine, etc. With the growth of technical equipment in most types of tourism, competitions began to be held independently. And there would be nothing wrong with this if these competitions were not put on the same level with tourist trips, or even replace them. This became especially noticeable among water and mountain tourists. We should not forget that such competitions are of a testing nature and serve to determine the technical readiness of tourists for upcoming hikes. They compare the achievements of athletes not comprehensively, but according to individual indicators, but technical readiness alone is not enough to complete a difficult hike.

If a group is engaged in the tourist section of the physical education team of an enterprise, institution, educational institution, DFSO, then these organizations must create conditions for the physical, technical and theoretical training of tourists, and provide them with the necessary equipment if possible.

All members of the group must undergo a medical examination no earlier than a month before the start of the hike and obtain a doctor’s permission to participate in hikes of categories I-III of difficulty, and for participation in hikes of categories IV-VI of difficulty - a conclusion from a medical and physical education clinic or a physical education doctor.

As already mentioned, any trip begins with a check at the ICC. But don't let this scare travel enthusiasts. By filling out hiking documents, defending the route in front of IWC members - experienced tourists - you receive new information and recommendations about the hiking area, advice on selecting equipment and products, and on actions in difficult situations. If the trip has been prepared thoroughly, if everything has been thought out, studied, collected in advance (and this is the only way it should be), there will be no difficulties with preparing route documents.

A document giving the right to conduct sports tourist hikes of I-VI categories of difficulty, as well as non-category hikes that include elements of hikes of II-VI categories of difficulty, is a route book of the established form. The route book can be obtained from the route qualification commission at your place of residence or work. Two copies of the book should be filled out correctly, accompanied by certificates about the tourist experience of group members, medical certificates, cartographic material, descriptions and possible photographs of difficult sections of the route, lists of special equipment and means of providing first aid. Everything should be collected in advance in preparation for the trip.

You need to contact the same MCC with documents. If she does not have the authority to consider a hike of this category of complexity, the application documents with her preliminary conclusion are sent by the organization for which she works to the higher ICC.

The ICC gives an opinion on the possibility of the group completing the declared trip. Special instructions and recommendations for the group are entered into the route book, the place of its registration before going on the route at the relevant CBS and KSO, and the established control dates are recorded.

Based on the positive conclusion of the ICC, the group leader is given a numbered route book and a completed message form to the KSS, certified by the signature and stamp of the ICC. But the ICC’s contacts with the group do not end there.

The most important measure to provide assistance to the group if necessary is to organize control over its completion of the route within the established time frame. This control is carried out not only by the KSS located in the hiking area, but also by the ICC. The deadline is considered violated if the telegram is not sent by the group within the control day. After this, search work begins. Therefore, too strict deadlines are equally bad, which force the group to shorten the route, move in the evening or even at night, neglect insurance in difficult areas, and too extended deadlines, which can lead to the fact that the group that suffered an accident will not be able to receive timely help.

In accordance with the Rules, a written message to the KSS in the established form must be sent no later than 10 days before the group leaves for the starting point of the route. Even this one circumstance, in addition to others (elimination of comments, if necessary, checking the group on the ground, etc.), requires the submission of application documents to the ICC 1-1.5 months before the start of the trip. However, if a group with well-prepared documents came to the authorized ICC, for example, two weeks in advance, its application should be considered and everything should be formalized. ICCs are called upon to work quickly, and republican, regional, regional and especially zonal ones, moreover, should not close for holidays.

If, just before leaving for a hike, there is a need to make changes to the route or composition of the group, this must be agreed upon with the ICC and notified to the KSS.

Tourist groups planning to conduct a hike in the territory of a reserve or border zone must obtain permission in advance in accordance with the established procedure. But checking the availability of such permission should not be the responsibility of the ICC. The IWC must warn the group that part or all of its route passes through these restricted areas.

All of the listed issues related to preparing the group for the hike and preparing itinerary documents are primarily the responsibility of the hike leader.

In this article we will talk in detail about non-category hikes, that is, weekend hikes. Contrary to the name, such a hike can last from one day to several years. Weekend hikes are any tours that do not fall under any sports category. The “Unknown World” club has been organizing just such, non-category, hikes for more than ten years, and therefore we consider it necessary to talk in more detail about this phenomenon in the field of tourism.

Category and non-category hikes

Category hikes are sports hikes, the registration of which is handled by a special commission at the Ministry of Tourism. She reviews requests for the route, talks with the group leader and studies the trip report, which is compiled by the group members after the end of the trip. we talked about it in an article of the same name on the Club’s website. If your route is not so long in terms of the number of days or has fewer kilometers, it is automatically assigned the status of “weekend hike”, no matter how many kilometers you walk and no matter what passes you conquer.

In addition, if you traveled one hundred and fifty kilometers by bicycle, and then went hiking in the mountains, after which you rented a kayak at a tourist base and went down the mountain river - all this will be considered a non-category hike, no matter how difficult it may be for you . Alas, the system of category hikes was inherited from us as a legacy of the USSR and has not been revised in our days, although a significant breakthrough has occurred in the field of tourism since then.

Weekend hikes

In the opinion of the author of the article and the entire team of the “Unknown World” Club, weekend hikes are better than category hikes. Yes, if you complete a non-category route, you will not receive a mark on your tourist ID and will not be able to be proud of your sporting achievements. In addition, there are a number of instructors who will not take you on a difficult category hike without a mark of completion of simpler ones. There is no doubt, if you see tourism as a sport for yourself, then at least at first you should adhere to the classification of category trips until you learn tourism techniques and find the necessary connections in the tourist environment.

But if hiking is just an active recreation for you, then there is no point in all this fuss. It is much easier to create a route for a non-category hike, and you are not tied to a certain mileage or number of days of an autonomous hike, which allows you to make routes creative and varied, turning them into a real vacation for the soul. Many people discover active tourism when they are already old, and are very sad that category hikes are a closed door for them, but you can enjoy your stay in the mountains without participating in sports tourism. All you need to do for this is to decide to go on a weekend hike.