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Safety
Your safety is our top priority on our trips and courses. Safety starts with the initial planning of our trips and courses, and it will continue through to the end of the program. Your guide will make it their business to manage and reduce the risk while in the field with you. Please note that we can not eliminate all risk from traveling in the mountains. Wild carnivores, rock fall, flash flooding, joint strain, heat exhaustion and wild fires are only a few of the risks that can occur when walking across a mountain landscape. While all winter trips and courses will take place in non avalanche terrain, temperatures can be cold. It is important that you follow the direction of your guide while you are in the field. They are pretty good at reading your comfort level, but do speak up if you have a concern. It is standard in the outdoor adventure industry to have every participant sign a release of liability waiver before joining a trip or course. Please read the waiver(s) carefully before you commit to booking a trip or course with us. Thank you.
Hike Banff Release of Liability waiver
This waiver is required for for all bookings and can downloaded. Please read and agree to the waiver before making your booking. We will present you with the waiver when we meet in person. Your guide or instructor will witness you signing this legal document.
Download Hike Banff Release Waiver
Avalanche Canada Release of Liability waiver
For all participants on avalanche safety courses, you will need to read and sign an additional release of liability waiver on behalf of Avalanche Canada. Please familiarize yourself with these waivers before making your booking.
Download Avalanche Canada Release Waiver
School Groups—Acknowledgement of Risk Form
**This form is used is the individual who is attending any of our courses or receiving our instruction, will not be under the direct supervision of a parent or legal guardian.
Hike Banff asks that parents or guardians understand the risks their child (ages 12-18) are undertaking when signing them up for a custodial school group course or trip outing. This is for those minors not traveling with their parent. Please download and read the following two attachments, and contact Hike Banff with any questions before signing the documents.
