Steve and I have had conversations regarding how to efficiently educate the masses: what information to provide, what links, how to get it out there using this board and others...
Is there just too much information available? Do the general masses just make assumptions? (well of course they do...) Is the information to dispersed? How do we consolidate it?
How do we get people to pay attention to what they're doing???
This situation this past weekend has me really riled up, folks...
Laura, I remain as mystified as you.
As I've mentioned to Steve, when I give talks about Whitney at A16, I specifically have two slides at the beginnning, and at the end, that list this website. I specifically mention that it is the most important thing that they will hear, and I constantly refer to it during the talk. My impression is that knowledge of the websites is news to about 90% of attendees, and I'd imagine that is true for the general group of people pondering the climb.
The ONLY additional thing I can think of, is a collaborative association with the USFS, where they list this website on the application.
A more sophisticated version would use a quiz-type of system (which I personally like), like the C2C.
