We ask that you read this, sign it, and return it to our office. You will be living, camping, and traveling out of doors, where you are subject to numerous risks, environmental and otherwise. Activities vary from trip to trip and include hiking, backpacking, camping, rock climbing and mountaineering. Meals are prepared over stoves and sometimes-open fires, water often requires disinfecting before use. Camping hazards may include burns, cuts, titan diarrhea and flu-like illness, and falling timber.
Travel is by vehicle and on foot.
Travel by foot is over rugged unpredictable trail and off-trail terrain, including boulder fields, downed timber, river crossings, high mountain passes, snow and ice, steep slopes, and slippery rocks. Additional risks are frostbite, high altitude illness, sunburn, heatstroke, dehydration, and other mild or serious conditions. Decisions are made by the instructors and participants in a wildness setting, based on a variety of perceptions and evaluations which by their nature are imprecise and subject to errors in judgment. Participants may have free and unsupervised time. Throughout the trip, participants are responsible for their own safety and for the safety of other members of their group.