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App designed for kids’ adventure safety

A new storybook app for kids called Mountain Mountain Rangers is designed to encourage safe outdoors adventures.

Outdoors safety isn’t just for adults. A newly launched children’s storybook app is designed to encourage safe outdoors adventures for kids.

The app, released last week for Apple products, is aimed at kids 3-8. It’s free for the first story in the series, with four additional stories available for 99 cents each. Author/illustrator Erin McCrea said she plans to add more stories.

“It teaches children important lessons about safely enjoying the outdoors including the 10 essentials and Leave No Trace practices,” she said.

McCrea lives in Denver and her main work is physical therapy. But she also does oil paintings and has a small medical illustration business.

McCrea told the Herald that she came up with the idea when driving back from a ski weekend in Crested Butte. She and her husband helped out several people in distress.

“Over the past few years we have helped several people in the backcountry or off of mountain roads who have needed assistance because they were not well prepared,” she wrote in an email. “The lack of preparation, knowledge and respect for the dangers in the mountains is what inspired me to write the stories.”

For more, download the app by searching for “mountain rangers” or visit www.mountainmountainrangers.com.

With the app you can read or listen to the story. On the website you can take the Mountain Mountain Rangers pledge, which includes:

“I will always get permission from my parents before going on an adventure.”

The app for Android operating devices is in the works, she said.

johnp@durangoherald.com



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