📣 NEWS: We have a new member in our team of women hiking / trekking guides: Sara McLean! 🥳
🎒 Sara will be our West Coast Trail Lead guide this summer. You will be in great hands as she has guided it 5 times already!
🎒 Sara and I shared the guiding of a group of 7 in July 2022 and I saw first hand how much dedication and care she has for guests. And this past summer again. Sara is a professional at what she does; the safety and wellbeing of each guest is her first and foremost priority.
🎒 Sara is an ACMG Hiking Guide living in Canmore. She grew up in Calgary and competed in cross-country skiing until she was 20.
After her racing career, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of Calgary. During this time, she also became more interested in remote backpacking trips in the Rockies.
She got her Apprentice Hiking Guide certification in 2021 and completed her Hiking Guide Exam in 2023.
Outside of guiding, Sara’s summer hobbies include trail running, scrambling, and rock climbing. In the winter she works as a ski patroller – the perfect combo of seasonal jobs!
🎒Pictures of Sara: cooking.. as yes we guides cook for our guests on the trail 🥘 🧑🍳 and Sara paying close attention to guests footsteps as they cross a cold rushing Rockies stream, ready to catch or lend an arm.
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#wct2025 #westcoasttrail2025 #acmgguide #acmghikingguide #womanguide #womenguides
🏜️Run Day 2: Zion 🤩 10 mi / 16.5 k with 574 ft / 175 m elev.gain of single trail along the canyon ridge at sunrise 🌅 👌🏽😍
🏜️ It was quite rocky (I don’t mind rocks 😅) with low cactuses ready to catch your ankles🌵so I was very focused and barely took any pictures. Distance felt like a breeze compared to previous day. 😆
‘Sunny’ Suzanne Stroeerevening presentation by @sstroeer was very inspiring. I mean who swims accross the Colorado river alone at night (the 2nd time) to do a wilderness Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim 😳👍🏽
And Yes whatever you let your mind believe - for success or not on a run or adventure or life! - it will be it.
🏜️ side note, I got 2nd in my age category that day 🙌🏽🥳 (2/50) Pas mal pour un vieux cheval 🐎 🐴 no podium, no prizes, just interesting to know where I place 🙂
#desertrunning #trailrunning #trailfest #runninginrocks #runwithviews #iloverunning
Fall colours are beautiful but no it’s not my favourite season after only a 2.5 months summer! 🤪#sorrynotsorry😂
Here on a 14k hike with 1200m elevation gain, through a forest of aspens turned yellow then larches also yellow on a stunning day!👌🏽👍🏽
It pays to stay fit friends, mountains ain’t flat so keep at it so you get the views! 😅
The last 3 pics are of a different area and hike.. glad they warn of cows along the road coz.. there were cows!!🐮😂
I 💚 🐮🐮🐮and could have stopped to pet them 😅
#outdoorfitness #fallfitness #hikingfitness #getoutsideeverytimeyoucan
⛰️ Some jogged, some walked, some ran, all had a blast on our beautiful Canadian Rockies trails! 🇨🇦
Everyone was respectful and kind
- to each other,
- to our beautiful National Parks and wild spaces
- to our guides and crew
and all left no trace, took only photographs and memories!!
Seeing everyone’s smiles, waves and happy jumps at the final dinner video had me grin ear to ear.
This why I 🧡 doing what I do: make people feel:
- Happy,
- Healthy and
- Energetic
(despite the hours spent in the office organizing it all 🙂)
#run #jog #move #forestbathing #healthinmovement #womanguide #canadianrockies🇨🇦
What a week!! this post to express how much energy the Vacation Races - Global Adventure team gives me!
Do you know who they are? Check their website for details but in a few words Vacation Races offers runs in and close to 🇺🇸 National Parks.
As an extension to this, they offer Global Adventures which means a run / race per day (some people jog or hike) then local activities in the afternoon and this in many different countries around the 🌎 .
Will you join one of the two Banff trips I’m organizing for them!? 🤩 we still have a couple of open spots!
#strongertogether #vacationraces #globaladventures #runningvacation #activevacation #teamworkmakesthedreamwork💯
⛰️ 🏕️ August 8-12, join me for a 5 day Trek in the beautiful Canadian Wilderness!
The Dogtooth Trek is set up by the Alpine Club of Canada.. link for details and to register:
https://alpineclubofcanada.ca/adventure/dogtooth-trek/
Difficulty level: this camp is for novice multi-day hikers or strong day hikers.
Price: CAD 1,450 + tax
Included: 5 days of guiding in an area with low to no trails (my fav!), food & cooking, your every day safety, nature & wilderness interpretation and mountain stories, some sweat, some laugh 🙂, answers to all your questions prior to registration AND a pre-trip group meeting online!
#trekking #wildernesstrek #alpineclubofcanada #explorecanada #neverstopexploring
Presentations part 3
🚨🇨🇦 Presentations part 3: The ACMG - Association of Canadian Mountain Guides - requires guides from all streams (Alpine, Rock, Ski, Hiking etc..) to have an 80 Hour Wilderness First Aid (=2 weeks) which has to be renewed every 3 years (5 days minimum). Some are surprised of how intense it is.. The body is complex, no wonder it’s intense!
🚨In case of an emergency out in the wild and at times hours away from a road or hospital, this training enables us to decide if we need to evacuate - and how - or not and give our guests the best level of care until EMT or health professionals take over.
🇨🇦 Our Canadian National and Provincial Parks also require us to have this training and certification in order to guide in parks.
🚨 So when you visit our Canadian Rockies this summer or another country or park anytime, do me a favour and ask those you hire as “guides” if they are trained in case something happens to you. Many people call themselves “guides” but don’t have any training..
(filmed while down south May 10, 2024 - tongue typo when I say “help us”.. all our guiding is about you, not us but I guess if something happened to us we could tell our guests what to do to help us 🙂 )
#guidesprerequisites #guidestraining #femalehikingguide #femmeguide #acmg #acmghikingguide #wildernessfirstaid #firstresponder
🌳🌲We live in a city with such beautiful parks, come discover them during our: - MONDAYS and/or - ☀️NEW☀️TUESDAYS full days or - Wednesdays EVENING HIKE Series! / WHEN: from now until July / MIN. participants 6 / MAX. participants 12 / PRICE: Drop-In FULL DAY: CAD 90 / Evening CAD 30 / 10x punch card: CAD 785.00 for Full Days / 5x punch card: CAD 405.00 for Full Days / #hike #dayhike #Movement #FreshAir #NewFriends #TrailStories #Nature #MondayFunday #tuesdayfunday #50plus #fiftyplusfitness #fiftyplusandfabulous
