Backcountry Basecamps
Comfortably explore your boundaries.
Our tent based, backcountry basecamps will take you deep into the backcountry. Basecamps are heli or snowmobile accessed programs, optimally positioned deep in the mountains and designed to maximize your downhill time.
A deep backcountry experience, but with a daypack!
We provide heated group basecamp tents, all cooking gear, meals and can provide private sleeping tents.
Basecamps are some of the highlights of our winters. We love to explore remote zones far off the beaten path. We offer a variety of backcountry basecamps in prime backcountry locations each winter. We can also create the experience you seek if you have a location or plan in mind. Contact us for details!
2024 Basecamps
Remote multi-day ski mountaineering with a daypack!
Helicopter accessed remote backcountry touring basecamps. Every year we select a handful of prime ski /splitboard mountaineering venues for our backcountry basecamp program. They are designed to deliver the ultimate ski mountaineering experience.
April 23-30, 2024
Flying from Golden, BC to a remote location (To be Decided, based on conditions.) The camp will be set up in a venue that will provide excellent access to big, glaciated, north facing terrain—the key elements for an incredible spring ski and splitboard mountaineering trip.
This a small group trip with a 4:1 client to guide ratio.
-Heli flights included
-Two ACMG Guides
-Eight spaces available
Price $3500 +5%tax
Itinerary
April 21, 2023- Meet in at departure location in BC. Welcome dinner and meet and greet your trip companions.
April 22- Fly into camp location, set up camp, avalanche safety briefing and warm up ski.
April 22-27-Ski objectives around the camp.
April 27- Breakdown camp and fly back to Golden.
Included
- Pre-trip support
- ACMG certified guides
- Tents
- Cooking equipment
- Breakfast/ Dinner (Self catering for a reduced price available.)
- Group safety equipment (communication device, rescue kit, first aid supplies, GPS, maps)
- Avalanche Canada Mountain Weather Forecast
Not included in price:
- Individual lunches, snacks
- GST 5% tax
- Personal ski touring boots, skis, skins or splitboard
- Personal avalanche safety equipment
- Transportation to meeting location
- Additional charges to due changes in itinerary or group size
- Trip cancellation, travel insurance, medical insurance
Private Basecamps
Have a group of friends and want to do a custom trip? Here are some ideas:
South Coast Basecamp-
Helicopter accessed three to five day basecamp programs starting from Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton. Explore the high country of the Sea to Sky corridor. Glaciated peaks, a deep snowpack and distinctly rideable terrain, make these trips special. The Tantalus Range, Elaho, Mystery Creek and the Manatee Group are all possibilities.
Price: From $1795/person+ GST Max ratio four guests to one guide
Kootenay Basecamps-
Helicopter accessed three to five day basecamp programs starting from Nelson, Slocan, Kaslo and Nakusp. Come explore some of the best skiing and splitboarding in the Kootenays.
Price: From $2300/person + GST Max ratio four guests to one guide
Columbia Mountain Basecamps-
Our Columbia mountain backcountry basecamps are four day basecamps take place in the Monashee, Selkirk Cariboo and Purcell mountains. Venues like, the Valhallas, the Horshoe Glacier in the Purcells, Moberley Pass and Bachelor Pass in the Selkirks, Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier area in the Cariboos and Frisby Creek in the Northern Monashees are all on the list. These basecamps are accessed via helicopter from Golden, Revelstoke or Valemount.
Price: From $2300/person + GST Max ratio four guests to one guide
Backcountry Ski Traverses
The Pinnacle of the ski touring experience
Imagine a self-propelled journey through a mountain range. We offer a variety of ski traverse experiences, from tent based to hut to hut trips. Late winter and early spring are the perfect time to capitalize on longer days, warmer temperatures and well settled snowpacks. Each year, we strap on our pack and head for an adventure or two, join us for a trip of a life time.
Traverse Ideas
Wapta Traverse-
The Wapta traverse travels north-south along the Wapta and Waputik Icefields stopping at four ACC huts along the route. The traditional route, starts Peyto Lake and travels over the glaciated crest of the Rocky Mountain Divide and finishes at Great Divide Lodge below Sherbrooke Lake.
Price $1995/person + GST Max ratio six guests to one guide
Spearhead Traverse-
A must do for the Coast Range skier. Over the course of three days, we’ll traverse the Spearhead Range, from Blackcomb to Whistler.
Price $675/person +GST max ratio 5 guests per guide
Mount Currie to Wedge Traverse-
We’ll start this trip with a quick heli bump to the summit of Mt Currie and traverse our way back to Blackcomb ski resort. We’ll cross incredible glaciated terrain over the course of 27 km and ride some epic pow along the way.
Price $1300/person +GST max ratio is 6 guests to one guide
Northern Selkirks Traverse-
We’ll start this trip with a helicopter flight into Ventego Lake near the south face of Mt. Iconoclast. Over seven days we’ll travel north and finish either by Stitt Creek or over the Adamants coupled with a flight out from Fairy Meadow.
Price $3250/person +GST Max ratio four guests to one guide
Includes
- Pre-trip support
- ACMG certified guides
- Tents
- Cooking equipment
- Breakfast/ Dinner
- Group safety equipment (communication device, rescue kit, first aid supplies, GPS, maps)
Not included in price:
- Individual lunches, snacks
- GST 5% tax
- Personal ski touring boots, skis, skins or splitboard
- Personal avalanche safety equipment
- Transportation to meeting location
- Additional charges to due changes in itinerary or group size
- Trip cancellation, travel insurance, medical insurance
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