Given that this is a publicly announced event, Im considering the benefit of liability waivers for participants. This passage from a document used by the Joshua Tree National Park Association should get all you prospective meeter-uppers stoked for the campout: I understand that the Institute activity in which I and/or my child is enrolled will expose participants to certain risks. These risks include, though not exclusively, the following: personal injury, including death, and loss or damage to personal property; heat exhaustion or heat stroke; contact with harmful plants, animals or insects that may result in bites, stings, or lacerations; contusions or broken bones; hypothermia, drowning, slipping and falling; falling objects, avalanche and rock slide; the hazards of carpooling with other participants or staff to various locations; traveling by vehicle (perhaps 200 miles in one day) and on foot in a desert wilderness area and over roads, trails and rough and unstable terrain; the forces of nature, including weather and temperatures conditions which may include extreme heat and severe exposure to the sun; and errors of judgment and other acts and omissions, including carelessness, of Institute staff (including volunteers, and instructors), other participants and third persons over whom the Institute has no control.… Accidents and illnesses may occur in remote areas without easy access to medical facilities equipped to deal with the emergency. The risks described above are inherent in the activities – that is, they cannot be eliminated without altering the value and very character of the experience. I understand that other risks may also be encountered.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 03:18:10 +0000
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