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Eaton Lake Hike
This is a difficult hike due to the distance, gained elevation, and different surfaces covered.

Where soul rests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGaomytuLw

Would you like to leave the crowd behind on July 1st, drive a little further to Hope, hike on a steep trail, to reach a beautiful and wild lake with cold water, and treat yourself to a cold dip or swim?

Difficulty, Distance, and Elevation:
Difficult, 8.7 km trail (loop), 962 meters of elevation gain with multitude of trails type, including loose rocks.

Meeting At: Eaton lake Trailhead.

Parking: We are meeting and parking at the trailhead:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Qe6raPv1tc9e8BNP7?g_st=ic
Transit Access: Not transit accessible. Please arrange for carpool and reserve your parking pass.

Carpool List:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bOrFBbT9xQ3U1ns5CUyasv3FjjGE9e-uDuhxOTRSnu4/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Recommended Hiking Clothing, Footwear and Gear:

  1. Hiking Boots or Hiking Shoes
  2. Small Daypack or Hiking backpack + ample amount of water, Lunch + Snacks
  3. Sweater or a Hoodie
  4. Sunglasses and a Hat, Sunscreen if required (all optional)
  5. Light Jacket (optional)
  6. Bug protection
  7. Swimming gears and towel, should you choose to dip into the water.

## Legal Disclaimer, Assumption of Risk, Release of Liability, and Insurance Recommendation

Important: This event is organized informally by volunteers. The organizer, any assistant organizers, drivers, carpool participants, volunteers, and other attendees are not professional guides, outfitters, medical providers, rescue personnel, travel advisers, or paid event operators. Nothing in this event notice, any message, route description, gear recommendation, carpool arrangement, or verbal discussion should be treated as professional advice, a guarantee of safety, or an undertaking to supervise, rescue, guide, instruct, transport, or protect any participant.
By choosing to RSVP, travel to, attend, or participate in this hike, each participant acknowledges and agrees that hiking, border travel, carpooling, remote forest roads, and outdoor activities in remote alpine terrain involve inherent and unpredictable risks. These risks include, but are not limited to: getting lost; route-finding errors; slips, trips, and falls; snow, ice, snowfields, and steep terrain; rockfall; landslides; unstable ground; stream crossings; flooding; trail or road failure; falling trees or branches; wildfire or smoke; extreme cold or heat; dehydration; altitude, fatigue, illness, or medical emergencies; wildlife encounters; poor visibility; sudden weather changes; road, traffic, and border delays; vehicle incidents; and limited or delayed access to emergency assistance.
Each participant is solely responsible for deciding whether they are fit, skilled, equipped, insured, and prepared to participate. Each participant must make their own independent decisions before and during the event, including whether to start, continue, turn back, separate from the group, travel on snow or other hazardous terrain, or seek assistance. Participation is voluntary, and each participant accepts full responsibility for their own safety, health, conduct, decisions, property, transportation, border eligibility, and expenses before, during, and after the event.
Travel insurance is strongly recommended. Because this hike takes place in the United States, participants should confirm before departure that they have adequate travel medical, emergency medical, evacuation, rescue, repatriation, and trip-interruption coverage. Coverage may be available through an employer benefit plan, a credit card, or a privately purchased travel insurance policy, but each participant is solely responsible for verifying the terms, limits, exclusions, deductibles, pre-existing-condition rules, activity exclusions, and whether hiking, evacuation, rescue, ambulance, hospital, and cross-border medical costs are covered. Emergency medical treatment, ambulance transport, evacuation, rescue, and related services in the United States may not be free and can be extremely costly. The organizer does not provide, arrange, verify, recommend a specific provider, or guarantee any insurance coverage for any participant.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, each participant agrees to assume all risks and costs arising from participation in this event, including risks caused by ordinary negligence, errors in judgment, acts, omissions, route choices, weather decisions, communications, planning, transportation arrangements, or any alleged failure to warn, supervise, assist, organize, coordinate, or protect participants. Each participant releases, waives, discharges, indemnifies, and agrees to hold harmless the organizer, assistant organizers, volunteers, drivers, carpool participants, and other attendees from any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, expenses, injuries, death, property loss, rescue costs, evacuation costs, medical costs, legal fees, or any other liability arising directly or indirectly from the event, except where such release is prohibited by applicable law.
By RSVP’ing “Yes,” attending, or participating in any part of this event, each participant confirms that they have read, understood, and accepted this disclaimer and that they are participating voluntarily and at their own risk. If a participant does not accept these terms, they should not RSVP, attend, travel with the group, or participate in the hike.

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