Support Your Local Independent Guide Services

When you hire an independent guide, you’re working with someone who has built their career over many years. These professionals have refined their skills through years of time & experience in the mountains. They’re available before and after your time with them and because they’re not overworked or underpaid, they typically have the energy to deeply focus on your experience with them. Independent guides aren’t just young kids in their early 20s dabbling in guiding before they enter “The Real World”. Independent guides are true specialists offering trips and perspectives you won’t find with a large, big-box operations.

Supporting career guides has a ripple effect beyond your own experience. When wages are livable, the industry becomes more sustainable and accessible to people from a wider variety of backgrounds. By backing independent professionals, you’re helping create a healthier, more inclusive guiding community.