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Trails Disclaimer Redux I want to reemphasize this point Without limiting the Warranty Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability above, before undertaking any outdoor activity described on these sites, it is your personal and exclusive responsibility to ensure that the activity is appropriate for you, that you have researched the activity description, and that you have proper training, proper equipment, and proper physical conditioning to safely participate in the planned activity. TahoetoWhitney and contributors to these sites are not responsible for any harm to persons or property that results from your use of these sites, including without limitation, use of any content on these sites. Personal Note On a more personal note, my goal is to get you going backpacking. I completely agree with, and will defend the legal disclaimer above, but I do want you to see the wonders in nature, and within yourself. But you must begin this venture by fully understanding the inherent risks and dangers of wilderness travel. Let's try to put them into layman's terms, to the extent I'm capable. Backpacking is Dangerous From the dangerous conditions and drivers on the High Sierra Roads and Highways on your way up to your trailhead at Lake Tahoe, to a random rockfall landing on your head when you are finally exiting Mount Whitney, backpacking involves a wide range of serious dangers to your life, limb, and property. Backpacking involves hard physical work across rough terrain that is inherently dangerous. You can die, break your body up, or damage your gear. Backpacking itself presents multi-faceted challenges to your health and metabolic safety. From maintaining the fundamental physical exertion levels required for the time and distance of your trip while preventing overheating, physical breakdown, and exhaustion on the trail, to keeping yourself warm, properly fed, and secure in camp against weather, animals, and insects, backpacking presents real dangers to your basic health and welfare. Failure to maintain your basic physical security against exhaustion and weather is a deadly combination. In the meantime you have the daily dangers of lightening strikes, dangerous fords, getting lost, and falling off a slippery trail aside a long drop over a cliff. Learning to properly confront each of these situations, and other unexpected dangers inherent in wilderness travel, involves serisous risks and the danger of accident, injury, and death. So don't bite off more than you can chew. When you do bite off a piece of the trail, understand that backpacking is dangerous. Stay within yourself by doing trips appropriate to your skill level, your gear capacity, and your experience levels. Even when you are doing everything "right," things can go very wrong. Any failure of planning, judgment, or fitness on your part will be very costly to your comfort, can be very painful, dehabilitating if not deadly, and may endanger other hikers and any personnel called out to rescue you, or retrieve your body. So I'll tell you this personally: Beware! Danger walks with you down every trail. Warning: Backpacking is Dangerous! |
