WARNING!
DEALING WITH ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR ON THE TRAIL
Dreamride operates in an extreme environment. While we do our best to adjust daily to the skills and interests of our small groups, we do not permit inappropriate or unwanted interference with decisions concerning logisitics and safety. Reasons are obvious to most, but there are stupid people out there and some of them ride a mountain bike. Our guides, instructors and supervisors are in charge for your SAFETY. We are also in charge of getting Search and Rescue to fly you to the hospital if you do something stupid.
Ignorance is no excuse to do something stupid.
During our booking and evaluation process we try to eliminate, or safely allow for, "rogue" behavior. If you are a jerk, or are bringing in a group of jerks, and you actually understand that you can be a problem in a sexually or racially mixed group of professionals, then book a private package, please. This way we can allow for anti-social behavior (or a really good sense of humor), but not for dangerous behavior, which will get you ejected really fast. We welcome the anti-social, especially those who love nature, who KNOW they can be a problem with some "types" when taken too seriously. We understand! Give us a chance to serve you the right way, and give others a chance to enjoy their vacation.
Some "buddy" (that includes women, by the way) groups come out with very different abilities. Some bring along psychological tensions caused by the stresses of survival in an urban environment that would lead a person to want to go on a mountain bike vacation in the first place. Ego is standard equipment for "buddy" groups, conciously or unconciously. While resulting behaviors can be quite healthy and entertaining, even food for the funnies, they can sometimes cause problems with other riders who are not party to the "clic." A mix of egos compounded by a desperate attempt to "have fun" can be dangerous. Our accidental studies of "strange mountain bike buddy behavior" led us to a separate tour business for couples only (Super Elite and private couple packages are now available). Two friends, male or female, mixed or no, usually facilitate additional guests in the group quite easily. Couples seem to be able to keep their "little secrets" to themselves and due to their "coupleness" are not competing for sex or a place in the natural order of the tribe.
A group of three to five "buddies", however, is a different animal. Testosteron and estrogen dares, jokes, threats, and even latent and repressed sexuality or hostility rise to the surface in inappropriate displays of cruelty and veiled mean ego-war-phalanx behavior that would have Freud saying, "I told you so." Groups of human beings can be lead by a Satan, a Lt. Calley, or a Fletcher Christian into shooting women, children and old men in a ditch, giving up the ship for a short life on Pitcairn Island, or cast out in the middle of nowhere with no protection from the wrath of natural law.
All this is getting to is: BE CAREFUL WHO YOUR BRING WITH YOU ON YOUR TRIP! If you and/or your buddies form a gang on the trail or are openly cruel and bigoted to others in a group, we simply cannot allow you to ruin the day for the other fine people we serve. If you are "crazy like this," no problem, just book a private package so that we can best serve you in your insanity.
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