Guide Training Course - Itinerary
- About the Program: This course is about teaching you how to be the best possible mountain guide you can be. We designed it to provide experienced outdoors people with the skills they need to make a successful transition to Professional Mountain Guide. Working as a guide requires more than just hard (technical) skills, it requires even better soft skills (communication and management). The bulk of SYMG's program focuses on the "soft skills" required to effectively meet the needs of clients, manage groups in the backcountry and how to successfully plan and execute backcountry trips. With successful completion of this course, graduates should be equipped with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary (along with a recommendation from an industry leader) to be hired as a professional guide. At SYMG we feel that a great guide will utilize these skills not only as a guide, but also in any professional environment.
- About SYMG: SYMG is one of the premier guiding services in the world. We have been named "Best Outfitter on Earth" (2007) and "Best Adventure Travel Company" (2009) by National Geographic Adventure Magazine. We have planned and executed trips for over 20 years in California's Sierra Nevada and have run countless other trips throughout North and South America. The course instructors represent our most senior guides and directors, each of whom has years of experience in the adventure travel industry.
- Prerequisites: Must be proficient at backpacking and comfortable in remote wilderness settings.
- Grade: Easy-Difficult: As a Professional Mountain Guide your fitness level is expected to be at a peak, with some days throughout the course being potentially difficult.
- Accommodations: 3 nights camping in the front country in the Sierra National Forest near SYMG Headquarters; 3 nights camping in the backcountry of the Ansel Adams Wilderness in the southern Yosemite area.
- Equipment: SYMG will provide all group camping/cooking gear and any specific equipment needed throughout the course. Tents, sleeping bags, pads and backpacks can be provided upon request.
- Meals: SYMG will provide all meals except dinner on nights 1-3.
- Cost of the Trip: $1195 per person
Small group surcharge of $300 on group size of 2
- Included: Expert Instruction, meals noted above, campsites, permits, course materials, group camping equipment.
- Not Included: Transportation to and from activities, dinner on Days 1-3
