Strong shoes are required; hob-nailed if one expects to do any climbing.

Wraps for evening, and heavy underwear for an unusual day (storms sometimes come in Sierran regions unexpectedly), are sensible precautions.
Sleeping out-of-doors is one of the features of the place, an invigorating, rejuvenating joy, which Mark Twain affirmed was able to destroy any amount of fatigue that a person's body could gather.
Visitors are given their choice of a comfortable bed in the open, in a cottage, tent, or one of the main buildings.

There are practically no rules at Glen Alpine save those that would operate in any respectable home.

No liquors are sold, and visitors are frankly told that "If they must have liquid stimulants they must bring them along." In order that those who desire to sleep may not be disturbed by the thoughtlessness of others, music is prohibited after ten o'clock.

One of the delights of the place is the nightly camp-fire.