GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

To participate in a peak climbing, hiking, skiing, or other, travel activity with Pete Yamagata, the founder and owner of the PETE'S THOUSAND PEAKS website, the following stipulations must be agreed to and adhered to:

You are personally and legally liable and responsible for your own safety and well-being, as generally agreed on any official Sierra Club (Sierra Club Waiver) or California Mountaineering Club (CMC Waiver) outing. I am not in any adequate financial position, so I cannot accept any liability or responsibility for loss, injury, death, search, rescue, evacuation, or any medical expense. Incidents and accidents are a distinct possibility of any such travel or related activity. Aside from perhaps minor road or highway travel events and injury covered by normal automobile insurance, all such injurious events are agreed to be beyond the control of anyone associated with this website.

You must have your own gear, water, food, and necessary personal items. Deficient equipment, or ability, is cause for denial of participation.

In regards to applying for participation in an activity, this is not a fraudulent offer or a fraudulent website, and you are expected to be truthful and honest, too, accordingly. Misrepresentation or fabrication as to ability or experience is then remanded to immediate summary review. Termination of the event, or the subject's participation, will therefore be, then, an option of the trip leader. Undue slowness or apparent lack of skills, arising from any such deception, is also sufficient cause for summary expulsion from the activity, at any point of the outing.

The assumption is made for all to possess reasonable expectations to summit, or to continue with the group. If you are unsure of your ability to keep pace with me or the group, it is your responsibility to determine this, as to not delay the group or diminish the chances of completing the trip objectives. I regard a reasonable pace as roughly two miles an hour on good trail, and a thousand feet gain an hour, with trail or cross-country. This is an average hiking and climbing speed, over a lengthy period of time.

Persons making good faith efforts to attend will never be left to tend to their own ways or misfortunes, and every effort to provide safe extraction from remote or inaccessible areas will be made by me, personally. I do not have a cell phone or other communication device, so my efforts to contact or reach outside assistance will be subject to delay.

Since this is not any form of commercial activity, there is no fee, charge, payment, or any form of reimbursement, due from, or owed to, any party for the conduct of the climb, hike, or ski.

All applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations will be adhered to, rigorously. Violators will be warned, then barred from ongoing, or further, activities.

Other such conditions may be imposed at any time. The participant is free to then disagree and depart from the activity.

You are free to leave the activity or group at any time, to then proceed on your own responsibility. Leaving the leader, or leader's delegate, with or without notice, is assumed to absolve any and all, responsible, from any and all, further responsibility or liability. Once you leave us, you are on your own!

Transportation is the responsibility of the participant. I can sometimes personally provide rides from about this part of Northern California. I have room for up to four others for day activities, and a ride for one or two, with backpacks or overnight gear. The sharing of transportation fuel costs is considered a courtesy, and may be waived for good behavior and the success of the outing.

Any camping fees are to be shared equally. Lodging, dining, and other travel related costs, on all day use activities, multi-day events, and road trips, are solely the responsibility of the recipient.

Our overall objective is to travel, climb, hike, and ski, safely and successfully. I am not a guide service or chauffeur. We go together as friends, and the reason is to climb peaks!

YES, I AM AGREED, AND AM FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MYSELF, AND WISH TO JOIN UP WITH PETE'S CLIMBS!!

NO, I DISAGREE--PLEASE SPARE ME FURTHER FROM THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS!