Membership information

Step 1:

Accept the reality that the VVCC is a figment of our collective imagination. We have this fine website and a fairly active mailing list to coordinate the activities of like-minded individuals in the Toronto area. We are each responsible for ourselves: there is no club insurance, there are no official leaders. We are not responsible for your safety. By joining a trip you are assessing yourself as capable of looking after yourself. This means that we will take no more responsibility for your safety on a trip than if we just met you at that moment on the river. You and every one of us are individuals making individual choices and responsible for our individual safety. If you're looking for someone to take that responsibility you're better off with a commercial outfitter or a real club. I'm sorry if that seems hard, but that is unfortunately the world we live in and we don't wish to be embroiled in it any more than we can help.

Does the preceding mean that we're a bunch of curmudgeonly soloists? Absolutely not. We like paddling with each other and sharing food, boats and tent space. It means we've got a good thing going and we don't want it spoiled either by people who think this is something it isn't or by lots of forms or lawsuits.

Step 2:

If you've survived that first step, the next is to send a personal profile of yourself from a paddling perspective to . Tell us what kind of experience you have, what kind of paddling you want to do, and anything else you think the others might find interesting about you. There's no vote on your membership in this non-existant organization, this is a self-selecting process. At this point you'll be added to the list and introduced with the profile you send. Congratulations! You're in!

Step 3:

There is no step three.

Step 4:

Sign in to our website as a member. You'll receive your username and temporary password after step two. Once you log on with your temporary password you'll have to pick a permanent one and log in again. After that you should have to log in only rarely -- the site will remember you if you ask it to.

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