To make it easier to better title activities where the route place has broadly varying options and alternatives, provide a list of alternate location names that may be used.

Specifically, when scheduling an activity allow the leader to choose an alternate title from an "Alternate Route/Place Title" list that is populated from a route/place "Route/Place Titles for Activity Titles" list.

Here's an example:

For a scramble of "Silver, Tinkham & Abiel Peaks," https://www.mountaineers.org/explore/routes-places/silver-tinkham-abiel-peaks, the activity title currently is and by default after implementing this idea would be:

Alpine Scramble - Silver, Tinkham & Abiel Peaks

Alternate activity titles with a choice of alternative route/place titles could be:

Alpine Scramble - Silver Peak

Alpine Scramble - Tinkham Peak 

Alpine Scramble - Abiel Peak

Alpine Scramble - Silver & Tinkham Peaks

Alpine Scramble - Silver & Abiel Peaks

Alpine Scramble - Tinkham & Abiel Peaks

One of the important functions of our Routes & Places is ensuring that we don't have multiple Mountaineers groups at the same place so this allows that conflict check to happen but also allows leaders to be more specific about where they are going and have the activity title accurately reflect that.

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An activity’s title is made from the activity template title and the route/place title. All of these titles are meant to be brief, simple and consistent across our website. If and when we implement the alternate route/place name feature, we have to keep the alternate titles brief, simple and consistent too. And the Route/Place title is only a geographic name. It purposefully conveys nothing about what one might do there. Any alternate route/place titles must too be just geographic names. We leave the what we're going to do to the to the Activity Template and activity's Summary.

The places for creativity about everything you plan to do go in the activity’s Summary and Leader’s Notes. Also remember that we show the first bit of the activity’s Summary in the activity search listings, so it is very much like a subtitle (lots more words allowed!).

See the attached image file of the an activity search result to see how this looks "in action."

To learn more about Routes & Places, visit the "Requesting New Routes & Places" page, https://www.mountaineers.org/volunteers/schedule-an-activity/requesting-new-routes-places.

We've been told that we have to use a generic route-place for an activity going to a particular locale even if that generic route-place is a poor fit to what we plan to do and may turn off potential participants. For example, a route-place may be listed as a scramble or climb and I want to list a hike or backpack there - it will show up in the activity search as a scramble and hikers won't want to do it. Or sometimes a route-place is listed as a hike and I want to do it as a backpack but the route-place description is very specific to a hiking itinerary. Can you allow us to enter separate routes-places to a similar locale for very different activity types, or allow multiple activity-type tags on the route-place? Likewise it might be listed as strenuous but my pace will make the activity moderate; could you possibly display the leader rating for the activity rather than the difficulty rating for the route-place on the search listing for activities?

When submitting a new Route/Place request I’d like an Activity Type for meetings, lectures, and other indoor activities. I just need one so you pick the terminology that serves best. I asked for this before and was rejected because the PC’s understanding for our outing takes precedence over ours. Now I’ve run into the issue again and I reiterate that we have indoor activities, like lectures for our courses and we need a suitable activity type to classify them.

Thankfully, activity type is optional now, so we no longer need to describe a meeting room as an “urban adventure”. But the real need is to get a check box filter on “meeting” or “indoor gathering” or something like that in the Routes/Places search so that we can bring all of them up at once and see what’s available.

I’ve already had two volunteers give up on trying to add needed Route/Places because there wasn’t a suitable activity type. What’s the harm in adding one more for this type of activity and lessening the confusion amongst our volunteers?