Joy is a Professional Interpretive Guide and a certified Hiking Guide with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG).  She loves to walk and smell the flowers! Seriously, flowers are her favourite. Joy also loves to canoe, rock climb, mountain bike, drink coffee and eat chocolate. Coffee and chocolate are essential food groups in a mountain girl’s diet.

She enjoys an authentic travelling style visiting natural areas, learning local flora, fauna and cultural exchanges and trying new sporty activities. Joy has travelled to the European Alps, Peru and its altiplano, Chilean & Argentinian Patagonia, the South Korean peninsula, and all over the Canadian and American west. Life is one adventure after the next, enjoy it with friends!

Born and raised in the small fishing village of St. Brendan’s, an island off the east coast of Newfoundland, Kristine grew up with the Atlantic Ocean, humpback whales, and icebergs in her backyard. She attributes her rural upbringing for her love of nature and all things wild. Kristine’s first foray into hiking and backpacking began on the East Coast Trail.

Kristine has organized dozens of hiking and backpacking trips, both within Canada and internationally – including Alaska, Iceland and Nepal. She also loves to experience the charm, food scene and culture of Canada’s mountain towns. Field, BC holds a special place in her heart.
As a guide, Kristine loves to help others learn how to minimize their footprint in the outdoors and is an active volunteer with the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative, Parks Canada, and the Alpine Club of Canada’s Access and Environment Committee. A type 1 diabetic for 27 years, Kristine believes that everyone – regardless of background and ability – belongs in the great outdoors. Let her show you around!

Helen Sovdat is an ACMG and IFMGA Mountain Guide and has been actively guiding for over 30 years. She is passionate about the mountains. Over many miles in the outdoors she has come to share some incredible journeys with her groups and made some amazing friends. She believes the lessons we learn in nature can enhance our lives.

Helen is a long-time guide with the Alpine Club of Canada, Canadian Mountain Holidays and is an instructor with the ACMG certification program. She has led a variety of expeditions in Canada and abroad, with travels to the St Elias, Andes, Himalaya, and Altai mountains. She enjoys the challenges of working in a wilderness setting with diverse groups of people. The energy and dedication of the mountain community motivates her to stay active.

An explorer at heart, Helen loves to ski and climb near her home in Canmore, Alberta. There is always something new to discover in the mountains. She has a diverse history of adventures, including long trips to the remote icefields of the Coast Mountains, Columbia Ranges and Rockies. Through her travels she has gained a greater respect for our wild places and is committed to protecting them.

Shannon has been hiking and adventuring in the Canadian Rockies and abroad for over 25 years. She grew up in Calgary and was exposed to camping and skiing as an energetic youth and later pursued hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, rock climbing, mountaineering, back-country skiing and kayaking.

With her Geography degree and passion for all things wild, Shannon has spent her professional life working in environmental education, emergency response and outdoor pursuits. She has worked with Parks Canada, Alberta Parks, the Knight Inlet Lodge, The Alpine Club of Canada and the City of Calgary. She has spent most of her time working and playing outdoors in Canmore, Banff and on the west coast of British Columbia.

Her outdoor passions have taken her around the world to SE Asia, Australia, Europe, South and Central America, Mexico and countless road trips to the US. Shannon loves to plan and organize backpacking and alpine hut excursions and can easily persuade friends and family members to join her adventures.

As a hiking guide, Shannon enjoys sharing her knowledge and passions for flora and fauna, cultural and natural history as well as photographing wildlife and mountain vistas, adventuring safely and simply having fun!

The family story has it that Anne drew had to be lured up her first backpacking trail with M&Ms. This is no longer the case.  Her greatest joy now is sharing the wonderful world of the outdoors with others. Anne drew hails from Berkeley, California.

She has lived and travelled all over the world, but has a special love for western North America and is happy to find her home in the Canadian Rockies. She speaks Spanish and German as well as English, and is now working on Portuguese. Since the M&M days, her personal pursuits have grown to include rock, ice, and alpine climbing and she loves the wide, open spaces of the world above tree-line.