Terms & Conditions

A booking is created when you submit the booking form and complete payment (deposit or in full) through our payment processor, Stripe. Your booking is confirmed once payment is verified and you receive a confirmation email with your booking number.

You must be at least 18 years old to book and to participate in a TCT trip. By booking, you confirm that you are 18 or older.

Our trips are physically demanding, multi-day backpacking trips in remote terrain with limited or delayed access to emergency services. When you book, you self-certify that you are reasonably able to complete the trek's stated mileage, elevation, and difficulty. You agree to honestly disclose relevant medical conditions, limitations, and allergies on the participant health form we send before your trip.

TCT welcomes hikers of all backgrounds and makes reasonable efforts to accommodate disabilities and medical needs where it can do so safely. Because these are wilderness trips, some terrain and conditions cannot be modified. We assess fitness and eligibility individually based on the specific trek and the information you provide, and we may decline or cancel a booking before departure where participation would create a safety risk to you or the group that cannot be reasonably managed. How refunds are handled when TCT excludes a participant before departure is covered in our Cancellation & Refund Policy (Section 8).

Trips can be booked with a deposit (currently $250 per person) or paid in full at booking. The deposit counts toward your total trip price. If you pay a deposit, the remaining balance is due 28 days before your departure date. Bookings made within 28 days of departure require payment in full. All payments are processed securely through Stripe; TCT never receives or stores your card information directly.

If a balance payment is not received by its due date, there is a 7-day grace period; after it, TCT may cancel the booking and release the seat. Full deposit, balance, and refund terms — including what happens to amounts already paid — are in our Cancellation & Refund Policy.

Cancellation terms, refund eligibility, the non-refundable deposit, and TCT's own right to cancel or modify a trip are covered in our Cancellation & Refund Policy, which is part of these Terms.

By joining a TCT trip, you agree to:

• Follow your guides' instructions, including on matters of safety and pace.
• Practice Leave No Trace principles on trail.
• Come prepared with appropriate personal gear for the trek's conditions — TCT partners with outside gear-rental providers for hikers who don't own their own equipment, but bringing suitable gear is your responsibility.
• Conduct yourself respectfully toward guides and fellow participants.
• Honestly represent your fitness level and any relevant medical conditions.

Weather, trail conditions, permitting, and group safety can change quickly on a multi-day backpacking trip. TCT may adjust an itinerary, campsite, route, mileage, direction, trailhead, or timing — including on short notice — when we judge it necessary for group safety or logistics. An ordinary adjustment of this kind is not a cancellation and does not by itself entitle you to a refund. We'll communicate changes as clearly and as early as we reasonably can.

A genuinely material change — one that substantially alters the location, character, difficulty, or core experience you purchased — is different: in that case you may accept the change, transfer to another available departure if offered, or receive a full refund. See the Cancellation & Refund Policy for material changes and for TCT-initiated cancellations.

Backpacking is an outdoor activity with inherent risks. Every participant must complete and sign Triple Crown Treks' Liability Waiver & Assumption of Risk Agreement before participating. That signed waiver — not these website Terms — is the controlling document for assumption of risk, release of liability, indemnification, and emergency medical consent. Completing it is a condition of participating, regardless of payment.

TCT guides sometimes take photographs and video during trips for operational and safety purposes. We will use images or video that personally identify you in our marketing only if you have given explicit, opt-in consent. That consent is an optional checkbox in your pre-trip participant forms and is off by default — if you don't opt in, we won't use identifiable images or video of you in our marketing.

You can change your mind at any time, including after your trip, by updating that choice in your participant forms or emailing hello@triplecrowntreks.com; we will respect your withdrawal for future marketing use. Your choice never affects your booking or participation.

The TCT name, logo, and the content of this website (text, photography, itineraries, design) belong to Triple Crown Treks LLC and may not be copied or reused without permission.

You agree to use this website only for its intended purpose — learning about and booking TCT trips — and not to attempt to disrupt it, access data that isn't yours, or misuse the booking, contact, or waitlist forms.

The operative release and limitation of TCT's liability are contained in the signed Liability Waiver & Assumption of Risk Agreement (see Section 7). Nothing in these Terms is intended to expand or replace that waiver; to the extent these Terms and the signed waiver address the same subject, the signed waiver controls on matters of risk, release, and liability.

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of your booking or use of this website, are governed by the laws of the State of California, and any such dispute will be handled in California. Risk, assumption of risk, release of liability, and related matters are separately governed by the signed Liability Waiver & Assumption of Risk Agreement, which is also governed by California law. These Terms are intended to be consistent with that waiver.

We may update these terms as TCT's trips or policies change, with a new effective date shown above. The version of these Terms and of our Cancellation & Refund Policy in effect when you confirm a booking governs that booking; we will not apply a later, less favorable cancellation change to a booking you have already confirmed.

Questions about booking or these terms: hello@triplecrowntreks.com.