GUIDES

Trainings & Certifications:

• AMGA Apprentice Rock Guide
• AMGA  Apprentice Ski Guide
• Wilderness First Responder
• Denali Mountain Guide
• Weston Backcountry Snowboard guide and ambassador
• Alaska Heliskiing Guide

Jack Klim is from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (The U.P). His folks raised him to be prepared for anything and embrace the harsh winters up North.  The Great Lakes were a humbling place for jack to grow up but he moved west to pursue adventure and earned a Bachelors degree at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO.  Over the last 5 years he has built a strong foundation working for the Colorado Outward Bound School, leading 30-day mountaineering courses and now teaching staff trainings by delivering Alpine Skills curriculum.  Since graduating he has cut his teeth in the San Juan Mountains teaching avalanche courses and ski guiding out of where he currently calls home, Silverton, CO. Jack has worked hard to travel the world with his brother climbing and skiing exotic volcanos in Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Washington, and Oregon.

Jack is passionate about creating memories in the mountains with extraordinary people! Developing relationships through deep-bellied laughter and sharing philosophies over a warm cup of coffee high up on Denali, is the essence of my Jack’s spirit.

“Do not ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs are more people who have come alive”

-Howard Thurman.

Trainings & Certifications:

• AIARE Course Leader
• Wilderness EMT
• Apprentice Alpine Guide
• Aspirant Ski Guide

• Born and raised in the potato fields and alpine peaks of Southern Colorado Erin’s passion for the high windy places has been a driving force throughout her life. Working as a professional guide, rescuer and educator have taken her around the world, from the endless deep pow of Japan to the windswept ridges of the Andes  and the remote magic of the Icelandic West Fjords. She loves nothing more than sharing wild places with great friends. Erin is a wilderness EMT, an AMGA aspirant ski guide and apprentice alpine guide, AIARE avalanche course instructor and WFA & WFR instructor

Trainings & Certifications:

• AMGA Certified Rock Guide
• AMGA Certified Alpine Guide
• AMGA  Assistant Ski Guide
• AMGA Certified Single Pitch Instructor
• AMGA SPI Program Provider
• AMGA CWI Program Provider
• AMGA/IFMGA Aspirant Mountain Guide
• Wilderness First Responder
• Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician (NR-EMT-B)
• Wilderness Advanced Life Support (WALS) trained
• Wilderness Medical Associates Lead Instructor
• Ski Patroller at Durango Mountain Resort
• La Plata County Search and Rescue; Technical Rescue Team & Winter Response Team
• Rigging for Rescue the Technical Rescue Seminar workshop
• Rigging for Rescue Waterfall Ice Rescue workshop
• Rigging for Rescue Patient Care in Technical Rescue workshop
• AIARE Level 3 Certified
• AIARE Level 1 & 2 Course Leader
• Leave-No-Trace Master Educator
• Profesional Member of the American Avalanche Association
• Camp-USA Athlete Ambassador
• Backcountry Access Athlete Ambassador
• LEKI USA Ski Team Athlete

Trainings & Certifications:

• M.A., Recreation Administration, University of Nebraska‐Omaha, Omaha, NE, 2000
• B.S., Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Emphasis in Resource Management,  Minor in Anthropology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 1998
• Green Mountain College – Director of Adventure Programs · 2005 to 2015 · Poultney, Vermont
• AMGA Ski Guide Course
• AIARE Course Instructor

Bruce brings over two decades of in the outdoor recreation guiding and leadership industries in both administration and education contexts.  He was the Director of Adventure Programs for 10 years at renowned Green Mountain College in Vermont as well as the Director of the University of Wisconsin – Stout Outdoor Adventure Program.  Today he splits his time between Durango and Idaho.  In Durango,  Bruce is a ski instructor at Purgatory Resort, a raft guide for one of Durnago’s local rafting companies, and avalanche instructor with KMG.  Bruce is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Recreation, Sport and Tourism Management with the University of Idaho; College of Health and Human Performance.

Trainings & Certifications:

• AMGA Certified Rock guide
• AMGA Certified Alpine Guide
• AMGA Certified Ski Guide
• IFMGA Licensed Ski & Mountain Guide
• Wilderness First Responder
• AIARE Level 3 Certified

Trainings & Certifications:

• AMGA Single Pitch Instructor
• Wilderness First Responder
• AIARE level 1 & level 2

“Cutting his teeth on the granite of northern Colorado, Aidan made the trek to the Southwest in search of something more wild. Here in Durango, Aidan has found himself on the boundaries of both: the desert of the four corners, and the alpine tundra of the San Juan Mountains. But climbing is only half of the job.

Aidan realized he had a passion for teaching when he began coaching parkour movement classes as a teenager, and carried his love to a planetarium where he taught academic lectures for the public. Eventually, Aidan made the obvious connection that he could make a living climbing and teaching simultaneously, as a guide. Since starting his guiding career, Aidan’s stoke has continued to grow exponentially, and since there’s more excellent climbs in the world than there are days in a lifetime, his fire may never burn out.”

Trainings & Certifications:

• AMGA Certified Rock Guide
• AMGA  Certified Alpine Guide
• AIARE Level 3 Certified
• Wilderness First Responder

Trainings & Certifications:

• AMGA Certified Rock Guide
• AMGA  Certified Ski Guide
• AIARE Course Leader
• Wilderness First Responder