Pre-Booking Information & FAQs
Read through our Pre-Booking Information to assess if an Alpengirl Adventure is right for you.
Essential Eligibility Criteria
All participants will be required to meet the Essential Eligibility Criteria in order to join a trip.
Complete our Health History and Emergency Contact Form (available in in the CampMinder application)
Complete the Acknowledge and Assumption of Risk & Release Form (available in the CampMinder application)
First Aid, Healthcare, & Insurance
Participants are required to be healthy upon arrival to their trip. They must arrive physically and mentally well, with the ability to participate in all activities, and without injury or communicable illness.
Due to living, eating and sleeping in close proximity, we must start with and maintain a healthy environment for the group. Because of the wilderness-based nature of Alpengirl’s adventures, there are no basecamp facilities nor extra health care staff hired to care for participants who are ill or injured and unable to participate in activities.
Participants agree to contact Alpengirl if any medical or health conditions change before the start of the trip session which might affect your ability to join us.
Health Benefits
The beauty of our program is living in the great outdoors.
We’re breathing in the fresh air, soaking up the sunshine and taking time to bask in the sights and sounds of nature without distraction from our regular day-to-day life at home. We’ll connect with our group, rely on our guides and peers, and we’ll recognize and hold onto all the good that we receive from being outdoors in a small, supportive, female empowerment group.
Stay At Home Guidelines
Unfortunately, illness, injury and other unforeseen events may occur prior to your trip that may preclude a participant from joining their group. In this case, please notify Alpengirl right away and discuss if there are any special arrangements that can be made to join us at a later date. Stay at home guidelines for illness:
- Fever, cough, sore throat or shortness of breath, or any other communicable disease symptoms.
- Cold, earache, migraine headache, rash, vomiting, or diarrhea.
- Feeling well, unusually tired, low activity level, pale, or lack of appetite.
*COVID-19: Health leaders have declared an end to the pandemic and we have adjusted our policies as such:
- Testing: We are not requiring pre-trip testing for COVID-19. Our staff will not be administering tests for COVID-19.
Trip & Travel Insurance
Accidents, injuries, illnesses and other events or situations can occur before or during your trip which may prevent you from starting your session or staying with us. You may incur costs and/or losses due to trip delay, cancellation or interruption or early termination, medical treatment or evacuation on a trip or otherwise, or costs incurred from cancelled flights, lost baggage, or other costs.
We HIGHLY RECOMMEND that participants consider purchasing trip and/or travel insurance that may include coverage for paid program costs or other fees and cover some of the costs and/or losses as described above. NOTE: Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) plans may require purchase within 7-21 days of paying a trip deposit.
Participants can choose any 3rd party insurance program or company that they prefer in order to best protect their investment this summer. You can also select a plan through Travmark Insurance through this link. For any questions regarding Travmark’s insurance options, please contact agent Mark Ceslowitz.
Alpengirl’s cancellation and refund policy and insurance information is provided in the Terms of Agreement section of the Registration Form.
Outdoor Medicine & Wilderness First Aid Certifications
All Alpengirl staff carry Wilderness First Aid or Wilderness First Responder certifications, and carry a fully stocked first aid kit at all times. Staff may provide you with wilderness first aid care but are not qualified to make medical diagnoses and must follow wilderness medical protocol as written by licensed medical doctors and approved for program use.
Alpenguides will assess your illness or injury and will determine if you need to see a doctor in order to continue participation.
What Is Wilderness First Aid?
Wilderness first aid certification courses are specifically designed for people who care for patients that are remote – over an hour’s time away from an ambulance or hospital. Alpengirl is considered remote much of the time.
Alpengirl’s guides are required to have a minimum certification of Wilderness First Aid (WFA) or Wilderness First Responder (WFR) and some guides may even have Wilderness EMT certifications.