Participating in an Event
This is a brief summary of participant responsibilities. For the complete text click on this link.
General Participant Guidelines:
CORE requires at least four participants for an event to be official, and members must remain with their group, waiting for all participants at junctions or at the trailhead unless otherwise arranged.
Carpool passengers are expected to pay drivers based on coordinator guidelines.
Guests may attend only with coordinator approval, a signed waiver, appropriate gear, and full responsibility taken by the inviting member.
Participant Code of Conduct:
Members must act respectfully and safely at all times, following the Trip Coordinator’s final decisions regarding participation. Any disrespectful, unsafe, or harassing behavior may result in removal from an event or dismissal from the club.
Leave No Trace – Ethics of the Outdoors
Many of us have taken a pine cone or rock, veered off the trail to dodge mud puddles, gotten too close to wildlife or tossed an apple core into the woods. While these actions may seem harmless at the time, until we learn to reduce our impact, the quality of our outdoor experiences and the recreational resources we enjoy are at critical risk. Also at risk is our continued access to wildlands as land management agencies sometimes take restrictive action to protect the resources they manage. Unless, of course, education catches up with behavior, and we all learn to leave the outdoors as unchanged as possible by our presence.
The Solution: Leave No Trace believes that while these impacts are widespread and the causes are complex, the solution is simple: Change behavior through education, research and partnerships one person at a time. Leave No Trace is not a set of rules or regulations. Nor is it simply about remembering exactly what minimum impact skill you can practice in every outdoor situation–how far you should camp from water sources, where to pitch your tent, how to build a minimum impact fire or if you should build one in the first place. Rather, it is first and foremost an attitude and an ethic.
Leave No Trace is about respecting and caring for wildlands, doing your part to protect our limited resources and future recreation opportunities. Once this attitude is adopted and the outdoor ethic is sound, the specific skills and techniques become second nature.