How to Reserve Your Space:
Please call our
Rafting Reservation Office at 1-800-462-7424 to ask questions, check on
availability of the trip, dates that interest you, and to make
reservations.
Many of our trips fill up months in advance while
others may have last-minute space availability. We will send you an invoice
with detailed trip information and hold your space for ten days, while waiting
for your deposit to confirm your reservation.
Deposit and Balance Due Payments:
A minimum
deposit ranging from $50 to $100 per person (please see 2004 Trip Calendar
& Price List on next page) is due within 10 days of your booking to confirm
your space. Trip balance is due usually 60-45 days in advance of the trip.
Reservations made within 60-45 days of your trip require full payment and may
not be eligible for refunds should you have to cancel.
Cancellations and Refunds:
Due to our
limited trip sizes, we turn away others once your reservation has been
submitted. If you must cancel your trip, please notify us as soon as possible.
Upon receipt of a written notice 59-31 days or more prior to your launch date,
you will receive a full refund less your deposit. Any cancellation made within
60-30 days of the trip will not be eligible for a refund. You may, however,
substitute another person with no penalty. Deposits from partial group
cancellations may not be applied to remaining participants. We highly recommend
trip cancellation insurance.
Non-Performance:
Mariah Wilderness
Expeditions reserves the right to cancel any trip due to weather, water
conditions, or other good cause beyond our control. Should this become
necessary, your unused monies will be fully credited toward another trip. If we
determine on the day of your trip that conditions exist on a particular river
to make it unsafe or unrunnable, then we reserve the right to change rivers, if
possible, rather than reschedule your trip. If we must cancel your trip due to
insufficient reservations, your money will be credited to another trip. All
credits shall be limited to the amounts actually paid to Mariah Wilderness
Expeditions and will not include any other expenses incurred by
participants.
Transfer Fee:
If you find that you must
change the original date of your trip, no transfer fee will be charged as long
as the trip you are transferring from is not full and we have not been turning
others away. If we have been turning others away, your transfer will be treated
as a cancellation and will fall under our general Cancellation Policy.
Responsibility:
While most of our trips are
not strenuous, they can be a dramatic change in routine and do involve some
risk. Participants are responsible for selecting a trip appropriate to their
abilities and be of sufficient good health to undertake the trip. Each
participant, or the parent or legal guardian of a participating minor, must
sign a Waiver and Assump-tion of Risk form before beginning a trip.
Equipment:
We use high-quality professional
river equipment, Coast Guard approved life jackets, and full safety and
emergency gear. On most of our trips we use PADDLE BOATS with six to eight
rafters plus your guide. We have a 100% excellent safety record, and use oar
and paddle combination rafts on the North Fork, Merced, and Tuolumne when the
water is high. We always use the oar and paddle combination rafts on Cherry
Creek. The Raft Express on the South Fork uses OAR BOATS and PADDLE BOATS. The
INFLATABLE KAYAKS that are used on the South Fork are high quality and
durable.
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