Guided trails extend interpretation to smell, taste, touch, and hearing

Evidence

To go on a walking trip with a naturalist guide, or better still to make a three-day trip on horses into the backcountry not accessible except in this manner, is to have an enthusiast for a companion.These naturalist rangers are all-around people. They must be resourceful, tactful, patient, and understanding. If the blind man who was shown the crater of ancient Mount Mazama had happened to be on the trail with a naturalist, he would have found that sight, however precious, is not the only desirable sense, for the guide would have made plants come to keen perception by their odors and tastes; trees by the feeling of their bark; birds by their call notes and songs. Even many rocks can be recognized, or guessed, by touch, especially when one knows the kind of rocks that might be expected to occur in a locality. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 712

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends ch18’s claim that tactile, smell and taste engagement is an underused interpretive sense — full multisensory method. — connects to: Tactile, smell, and taste engagement is a durable human urge that interpretation underuses — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 348; Tactile relief models can convey landscape scale, form, and geology to blind visitors — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 699