Practice Physical Distancing: Keep your group size small. Be prepared to cover your nose and mouth and give others space.But nothing about advising inexperienced hikers to NOT head out for 9 mile mountain peak hikes when overnight temps will be below zero? Who writes this garbage?
I hiked the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in April. The only information posted by the National Park Service at each AT shelter was about social distancing and covid. My son commented that this information was about as welcome and as useful as the phone calls one gets saying your car’s warranty is about to expire. When it’s raining, sleeting, snowing, the temperature is dropping, the wind is blowing, and 22 hikers are packed in to a shelter designed for 12, the last thing anyone is thinking about is covid.