Otherwise valid release forms are signed by minors, or by non-parental adults on behalf of minors. Safety talks are given by the most junior guide, or assigned as a penalty. Outfitters treat their guides as independent contractors when properly classified as employees. Guides are not properly screened, trained or supervised. There is no emergency response plan prepared in advance, or such a plan is not properly implemented.
Common sense is ignored when on a trip with commercial clients.
Outfitters and guides agree to take lawyers as clients. It doesn't matter whether you are a whitewater rafting, sea kayaking or horse packing outfitter. While you may be competitors with each other, you are also members of the same industry - with more interests in common than not. If the industry suffers as a whole, you all will suffer individually. While there is nothing wrong with healthy competition, knives in each other's back will hurt the client respect and credibility of all.