Gear Checkout Policies
- Any active Explorers Club member is entitled to borrow club
equipment for him/herself and at most one non-member. To be
considered an active member, the member must satisfy the
following basic conditions:
- He or she has attended at least two official club trips
- He or she has spent at least one hour in service to the
club or has organized and led an official club trip in
addition to the abovementioned attended trips. Service to
the club may include helping to organize or clean the
storeroom, attending a purchasing trip, staffing the
Explorers Club table at an activities fair, creating flyers,
volunteering at a social
gathering, submitting trip photos, or driving during an
outing. (If you have a creative idea for other
contributions, mention it to an officer.)
Because we purchase gear in part using membership dues, we
ask that half those using the equipment for any trip be club
members.
- Gear checkout and return must be properly recorded using the
equipment checkout log located on the desk in the storeroom.
(The gear checkout form is available online at our
Forms/Files
page.)
- The borrowing club member may be assessed a fee related to
the replacement cost of the borrowed equipment if that equipment
is not returned in a timely manner, as per the indicated
expected return date. Extensive damage to borrowed gear, or loss
of gear altogether, may induce a charge upon the borrower
pending review by the club leadership.
- At the discretion of the president, quartermaster, or other
club officer, trip leaders may be granted special gear access
privileges. Trip leaders have priority access to gear that is
being used for a publicized club-wide event.
For non-Explorers Club organizations wishing to check out gear, please click
here
for our policy. |
