Barbara Schomer Preserve Trip Organizer Permit Application

Permit Application for those requesting to organize a trip to Sarah Furnace Cave.

Name
NSS Member
MAKC Member
Emergency Contact Name
Equipment
Any fees involved with this trip?
Has the trip organizer read and understood the access guidelines, management plan, and agreed to comply?
This is a Legal Agreement—Read Before Signing. I would like to organize a caving trip to Sarah Furnace Cave on the Barbara Schomer Preserve of the MAKC. Other trip participants will accompany me, no more than ten.
Risk of Harm. I acknowledge that caving is inherently dangerous. I understand that among the risks of harm from caving and the trip is injury, disease or even death that can result from (for example) rockfall or ceiling collapse (whether in natural cave passages or in mined areas of a cave, slips, falls, uneven floors or pits, lack of light, becoming lost or stuck or trapped, drowning, hypothermia, bad air, contact with wild animals (for example, bears and bats), equipment failure and failures to rescue, and from my or others' actions or inactions.
Assumption of Risk. I assume all risk of any harm (including injury, disease, or even death) that I may suffer in connection with the trip.
Liability Release and Waiver. I forever release and waive all legal claims against each caver in connection with the trip, even if the caver was negligent.
Promise Not to Sue. I promise not to sue a caver and the MAKC in connection with anything that happens during this trip.
Indemnity and Defense. I promise to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless any caver and the MAKC for liability or expense related to any harm (including injury, disease, or even death) that I may suffer in connection with the trip.
Duration, Successors, Choice of Law, Forum. This agreement does not expire. It applies to my successors, heirs and assigns and benefits, MAKC, cavers' successors, heirs and assigns. Pennsylvania law governs (except its choice of law rules). Pennsylvania courts have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute relating to the trip or this agreement.
I have carefully read this agreement. I am voluntarily agreeing to it, and I intend to be legally bound.