Know Before You Go
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Safety first, but fun is number one
We are the Kootenay's backcountry and safety experts. We can help you make the most out of your winter backcountry adventures. Our guided ski touring/splitboarding trips and avalanche skills training courses are the best way to maximize your fun and safety in the backcountry. Our certified guides and avalanche professionals will use their expertise to make your backcountry dreams a reality. The structure of ski resorts is changing, more people are starting to tour the backcountry. We help you get beyond the boundaries and build confidence so you can go further and be safer.
All products
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AST Level 1 2024-25 **Instructor Training**
CourseCongratulations on taking the first step to explore the backcountry! Our guided avalanche skills training courses are the best way to maximize your fun and safety in the backcountry.
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AST Level 2 2024-25
CourseYou can expect our professional guides to show you advanced methods for terrain analysis, companion rescue, route finding, skin track setting, map, and GPS reading, and cover advanced weather forecasting, how to take relevant snowpack observations...
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AST Level 2 **INSTRUCTOR** 2024/25
CourseYou can expect our professional guides to show you advanced methods for terrain analysis, companion rescue, route finding, skin track setting, map, and GPS reading, and cover advanced weather forecasting, how to take relevant snowpack observations...
Lead Instructor
Lead Guide Judson Wright
ACMG SKI GUIDE, CANADIAN AVALANCHE ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL
Judson is the lead guide of Kootenay Backcountry Guides. After finishing high school in Ontario, Judson moved to the Kootenays and started his backcountry journey. While learning to ski tour in the Whitewater and Kootenay Pass backcountry, the seeds of an idea to bring a local ski guiding operation to the Kootenays were planted in his head. He spent the next 10 years exploring the mountains of western Canada and getting his A.C.M.G. guiding certification. Over time Judson fell in love with showing others the incredible backcountry in his backyard. In 2016 he officially launched Kootenay Backcountry Guides with a mission to increase safety in the backcountry and help others get the most out of their winter backcountry adventures.