RESULTS 



Only about 5 percent of the 

 visitors traveled by horse, 

 largely due to rough terrain 

 and the scarcity of forage. 

 Even fewer parties traveled 

 with guides or outfitters. 



Visitors responded well to the personal interview situation. There seemed to be no 

 resentment or problem with visitors feeling "spied upon" concerning registration. No 

 one refused to answer questions. 



In total, 470 groups were interviewed, 312 of which were interviewed both when 

 entering and when leaving. This produced a total of 782 interviews (table 2). 



Registration Rates 



A key question asked all interviewed groups was: "Did your party register upon 

 entering the area?" Registration forms were checked to see if the answers to this 

 question were truthful. In more than 95 percent of the cases, groups who had not 

 registered admitted honestly that they had not. 



An estimated 65 percent of all groups registered. This registration rate is 

 fairly close to the 74-percent registration rate for the two wildernesses studied by 

 Wenger and Gregersen (1964) . Although the Mission Mountains Primitive Area is more 

 than 500 miles from the area studied by Wenger and Gregersen and does not draw visitors 

 from the same geographical region, both are predominantly day-use hiking areas that 

 serve visitors largely from nearby regions rather than from the entire nation. 



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