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-	The leadership of test walks may also have a good deal of influence on their suitability for newcomers. Unless we aim to play the game of exclusion really hard, it is important that leaders of test walks be tolerant of the physical shortcomings of prospectives and make sensible allowances for the physique, age and experience of those they accept on their trips. Leaders who are not prepared to accommodate newcomers in this way would do better to ask that their trips should not be indicated as test walks, or alternatively decline to take people whose capacity is unknown to them.	+	That's not a bad image in one way, but maybe it could be improved if we concentrated a little more on being "those friendly people" and didn't make quite such a fe_tish about physical achievement. Of course, we don't subscribe to W.C.Fields' dictum "Never give a sucker a break", but we don't really go very far out of our way to "amalgamate those who esteem walking" or to "help others appreciate our natural gifts".