let's not.
I am a participant in another "inherently dangerous" activity - horses. I have enough of the beasties so that if someone wants to join me on a trail ride or pack trip or have me go along and pack their moose out for them, I can. I also think it's fun to hook up the team to a sleigh and take the neighbors for a spin. Probably stupid, but since I don't charge for this, I just do a standard verbal spiel about "this is an inherantly dangerous activity - even the gentlest horse can unintentionally hurt or kill you. Please don't sue me if that happens." People I know who do this stuff for a living carry huge insurance policies and everyone has to sign a "I know I could die from this" waiver.
Fortunately my health insurance does not list equine or SCUBA activities as not covered. I was thinking I want to get back into flying ultralights, though - better check on that one. Nah - lack of insurance isn't going to stop me from doing it.
I am a participant in another "inherently dangerous" activity - horses. I have enough of the beasties so that if someone wants to join me on a trail ride or pack trip or have me go along and pack their moose out for them, I can. I also think it's fun to hook up the team to a sleigh and take the neighbors for a spin. Probably stupid, but since I don't charge for this, I just do a standard verbal spiel about "this is an inherantly dangerous activity - even the gentlest horse can unintentionally hurt or kill you. Please don't sue me if that happens." People I know who do this stuff for a living carry huge insurance policies and everyone has to sign a "I know I could die from this" waiver.
Fortunately my health insurance does not list equine or SCUBA activities as not covered. I was thinking I want to get back into flying ultralights, though - better check on that one. Nah - lack of insurance isn't going to stop me from doing it.