BEWET Cancellation Policy

If your plans change and you cannot attend a trip that you’ve already paid for, you can get a refund up to midnight on the Wednesday immediately before the trip. This allows the trip lead to have enough time to notify any members who may have been waiting for a spot to open up. Any refunds after this point are at the Trip Lead’s discretion. If you become sick after the deadline and cannot attend the trip, the trip lead may refund you at their discretion. Being late the meeting spot, no-shows, etc are not eligible for a refund.

In the event a trip is cancelled, the Trip Lead will notify all participants as soon as he/she determines that the trip needs to be cancelled. Trip cancellation is at the Trip Lead’s discretion, which may occur due to weather events, river flows (too high or too low), area closures, wildfires, etc.

BEWET Age Policy

All members or guests rafting in a BEWET guided boat on a river trip must be 12 years or older. Individuals capable of supplying their own equipment and safety navigating the river without the assistance of BEWET may run the river along side the BEWET trip with people younger than 12 in their own boat.

BEWET Fee Policy

Two fundamental requirements are employed when determining the fee for any BEWET activity or event:

  • Expenses are shared

  • No individual member receives financial gain/compensation for activity/event participation

Expenses generally fall into two categories:

  • Overhead expenses (e.g. equipment storage fees, insurance fees, truck servicing / maintenance fees)

  • Trip operational expenses (e.g. camping fees, club equipment losses / breakages, put-in/take-out fees, BBQ briquettes, club truck gas, equipment rental fees, permit fees)

Overhead expenses are independent of the number of trip participants or the number of trips in a year. Trip operational expenses include consumables that may support several trips when replenished. As such, the actual per person expense share is difficult to calculate for any single trip. Therefore expenses will be amortized across all trips in a single calendar year to determine an appropriate per person trip fee. At the end of the year, excess fees paid are redistributed back to club members. Acceptable means of redistribution are; an end of year function open to all members, and/or maintenance/replacement* of club equipment. No individual members are to receive financial gain or compensation from the redistribution.

*Does not include capital expenditures


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