Backcountry Basecamps and Traverses
Guided Adventure.
Our tent based, backcountry basecamps and traverses 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 a group a heated basecamp tent, all cooking gear, meals and can provide private sleeping tents.
Basecamps and traverses 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 remote locations each winter. We can also create the experience you seek if you have a location or plan in mind. Contact us for details!
2023 Basecamps
Remote backcountry skiing 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 backcountry experience. We provide private sleeping tents, a heated group basecamp tent and cooking equipment.
March and April is the window for these trips.
Kemano Icefield Basecamp-
This helicopter accessed five day basecamp will take place in March 2023, deep in the Northern Coast Range. Extensive glaciation, lots of vertical and plenty of options blue bird and storm skiing days make this location a perfect choice for a backcountry adventure.
Price $2800/person +GST Max ratio four guests to one guide
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 fat 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 Horshoe Glacier in the Purcells, Moberley Pass and Bachelor Pass in the Northern Selkirks, Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier area in the Cariboos and Frisbee creek 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
Included
- Pre-trip support
- ACMG certified guides
- Tents
- Cooking equipment
- Breakfast/ Dinner
- 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
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.
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