Waiver of Responsibility and Disclaimer

Know and respect your limits. Do some research before you go: Know how long and difficult of a hike the letterbox requires. Know the weather forecast. Learn from rangers the local trail conditions. And if you ever find yourself on a dangerously rocky part of a trail that's wet and slippery, use common sense and turn around. No letterbox is worth the danger of getting injured!

If you are lucky enough to see wildlife, do not approach or disturb it. Do not feed the animals—even if it is small, cute, and apparently harmless. Animals that lose their fear of humans can and will cause problems with future hikers and letterboxes.

More common risks include venomous creatures such as snakes and spiders, biting insects such as mosquitoes and ticks that spread diseases such as the West Nile virus and Lyme disease, poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac, and stinging nettle. This, of course, is not a complete list of things that can go wrong in the outdoors. There's also lightning, hypothermia, avalanches, flash floods, falling trees, and so on. And even if it were possible to list all the possible things to go wrong, the human race is very inventive in thinking up new ways to hurt themselves.

Trailhead break-ins are a possibility, so do not leave valuables in your car—or at the very least, keep them hidden from view. You are solely responsible for your vehicle and its contents.

Atlas Quest supports a policy of not knowingly placing letterboxes in areas that will create undue risk to the letterbox hunter or environment—however, as conditions may vary, it is the responsibility of the letterbox searcher to become thoroughly familiar with the conditions in the area to be searched, to adequately prepare for those conditions, and to conduct oneself safely and responsibly with respect to those conditions and with respect to his or her personal abilities and limitations. Atlas Quest and the individual letterbox sponsors assume no liability for events which may occur related directly or indirectly to one's searching for a letterbox. You are responsible for the safety of yourself and your companions.

Do not let children hunt for letterboxes unsupervised.

By reading and utilizing the letterbox clues posted on this website, you acknowledge the above conditions, accept responsibility for your own actions, and agree to hold non-liable the clue writers, website authors, and letterboxing organizations and further, agree to provide this disclaimer to any person with whom you share these letterbox clues.