NEWS
June 30:Finally the weather is nice in the Rockies but the high mountains are still very snowy. Same goes for the Alps - the Matterhorn is caked in wet snow and the Hoernli Hut hasn't even opened yet as of June 28. Look out for some more trips being posted in the near future - and don't miss the trips that Jorg will be guiding this fall - from Wapta Icefields, Bugaboos to the Pala Dolomites and the High Peaks of Austria. We still have a few spots open.
June 10: Summer is slow to come here in the Canadian Rockies with new snowfall all the way to town level just a few days ago. At any rate, our summer planning is going full blast and we got a bunch of new itineraries to offer. We also lowered our prices for our Haute Route summer and winter trips by partly reducing our service level to what seems to be the market standard (i.e no airport shutles or luggage transfers included anymore in the price) but also by taking a hit on our margin.
Again, we enjoyed coverage in a travel magazine: Our Cortina Ferrata trip is featured in the "Asian Business Traveller" June Issue.
May 5:
We finished our last ski touring weeks this winter last Friday with excellent skiing to the last minute! Our Rogers Pass to Goldstream traverse was a great success and so were our spring skiing trips on the Wapta. But now spring is here and we are in the process of posting a number of new trips for both summer and winter.
Also, our Haute Route Glacier Trek received coverage in Vanity Fair Travel Issue April 2009 - check it out - it's on the newsstands.
December 31:
Maybe a bit of a slower season start in November / December but by now we are back to normal. All classic ice climbs are in good to excellent shape and in the Columbia Mountains (Rogers Pass) the height of settled snow is at 250cm, which is at least average for end of December. Also, from our point of view a blessing, the CD$ has lost a good 20% of its value to both the US$ and the Euro. That means we are selling at a discount again without lowering prices.......

MEDIA COVERAGE:
Business Traveller Asia-Pacific (May 2009): Featured is our Cortina Via Ferrata Trek as one of a series of outstanding adventures.

Vanity Fair Travel (April 2009): On of our all time favorites, the Haute Route Glacier Trek is being featured on page 123 as one of two hand-full of "Great Journeys". That is why we have been running this itinerary for the last 15 years!

Explore Magazine (October 2008):
Jorg is featured in "Explore", probably the most popular Canadian outdoor magazine, representing mountain guiding in a piece about outdoor professions.

Following frequent requests, we finally posted an article that Jorg wrote for Rock and Ice Magazine in 2001 about the mountain guiding profession in the USA - pretty entertaining reading but unfortunately not much has changed in 10 years since!

FEATURED TRIPS
New: Climbing Camp Garda Lake and Cinque Terre / Northern Italy
Our traditional fall climbing camp in southern Europe with Jorg Oct 4 - 11. It's northern Italy again after we had a great trip last year at the Ligurian coast.
As usual, it's an open concept trip with lots of flexibility as to grades and climbs. Main idea is to have good time on sunny limestone and bask in Italian ambiance! New: Pala Dolomites Via Ferrata Trip
Jorg will lead his tradiditonal fall trip to the Dolomites starting September 19 - 29. This time, it will be the remote Pala Range in the southern Dolomites, which offers beautiful high level trails and some of the best via ferratas in the Dolomites. Great to have Will, Alan and Vlad back - I think it's our 10th year together, for Will even 11!
New: Wapta Glacier Trek and Bugaboo Peaks
A 10 day trip that combines two of the highlights of the mountains of Western Canada: The famous Bugaboo Spires and the glaciated divide of the Rocky Mountains in Banff National Park. Jorg will be guiding this trip himself starting Aug 30.
New: Canadian Heli-Ski Touring - Bugaboos and Adamant Lodge
Sample the best ski touring terrain every day with a helicopter lift from a remote CMH Heli-ski Lodge. After excellent feedback from our first season of doing this new trip concept, we will be running two locations now: CMH Bugaboos and CMH Adamants.Check out the 2010 dates and if you bring your own group of 10, we can accomodate any date and duration in 2010!