This report provides data and narratives for incidents from both backcountry/wilderness-based and facility-based (e.g., ropes courses, climbing towers, etc.) programming that occurred between 1998 and 2000.

The goals of the publication are to:

+ provide a tool to educate interested parties (insurance industry, program managers, public land managers, participants, etc.) about the risk management implication of different adventure activities;
+ provide a significant and comprehensive incident database upon which statistical analysis can be done to provide a collective knowledgebase and reliable information source for the field of adventure programming;
+ provide a central reporting forum for incidents in adventure programming; enhance the collective judgment of the field of adventure programming by examining trends within it.