How this site is paid

Enquiries

The Wilderness Ledger is funded by the operators it lists, who pay for a qualified enquiry. When you ask about availability, a person reads it and it goes to that one operator. Travellers pay nothing extra: the operator's price is the operator's price, and the referral fee comes out of their side, never added to yours. Nothing an operator pays changes what is on the record about them.

Client relationships

Many of the places listed are clients of Ben Taft's photography and film work, and in some cases a stay was part of that commission. That is how he came to be there, it is stated on the About page, and it does not put a place on the list: plenty of clients are not on it.

Gear links

Some links to gear in the packing lists and gear guides are affiliate links. If you buy through one, the site earns a small referral fee at no extra cost to you. Every page that carries one says so at the top, and the links are marked rel="sponsored" so search engines treat them as what they are.

Only gear Ben has actually used is linked. A referral fee never decides what is recommended, and the disclosure line on a page is the signal that a link may earn one.

Insurance, flight, hotel and car links

The trip-insurance line under a Ledger's terms, and the flight, hotel and rental-car links in the Book the legs block on the getting-there pages and the trip builder, are affiliate links. If you buy through one, the site earns a small referral fee at no extra cost to you; the page says so beside the link. Ben has not stayed at, insured with, flown with or rented from these on your behalf; they are where a search starts, not a recommendation.

Ferries and the regional airlines

BC Ferries, Hullo, Pacific Coastal Airlines and Harbour Air run no referral programme, so their links are plain and always will be; the site counts the click and earns nothing. The merchants a link can go through are Amazon, Amazon.ca, REI, MEC, Backcountry, B&H Photo, Ulanzi, Peak Design, SmallRig, WANDRD, Burton, World Nomads, Allianz Travel Insurance, TuGo, Booking.com, Expedia, Discover Cars, Viator, Skyscanner, BC Ferries, Hullo, Pacific Coastal Airlines, Harbour Air.

Questions

hello@wildernessledger.com, and a person reads it.