Welcome to the Canadian Rockies Mountain Guides!
We are small independent guiding service
We specialize in custom climbing courses and guided mountaineering trips across Western Canada and abroad. We provide services for all mountain sports including rock climbing, ice climbing, mountaineering, via ferratta and back-country skiing. We are licensed by Avalanche Canada to provide Avalanche Skills Training (AST 1 & 2) courses as well.
What sets us apart is that we are a small operation that focuses on providing our clientele highly personalized service. With CRMG's, you will be dealing with one person through your initial contact right through to the day we are climbing or travelling together. We are not a guide booking agency or a mountain school where your guide may have varying levels of certification and/or experience. Your initial contact with us will be directly with an experienced, fully certified ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide.
Our two guiding seasons break down roughly into winter and summer. In the winter, we provide ice climbing guiding services offered either as private guided ascents or ice climbing courses. In addition to winter ice climbing, we offer backcountry ski guiding service and Avalanche Skills Training courses licensed through Avalanche Canada.
Rock Climbing is one of the most rewarding physical problem solving activities in the mountains. We can teach you the technical skills you need to develop your own self sufficiency or accompany you on your chosen route(s). The Canadian Rockies has literally hundreds if not thousands of rock climbs around the greater Bow Valley areas of Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise. There is phenomenal early season rock climbing at the Skaha bluffs in the southern Okanagan as well as the sweeping coastal granite of Stawamus Chief in Squamish.
If you have an alpine climbing objective(s) we can facilitate your mountain goal(s). Alpine granite of the Bugaboos of the Purcell mountain group, high quality alpine quartzite of the Selkirk mountain group in the Roger's Pass. There is a short list of ultra classic Canadian Rockies alpine climbs, please inquire and we can provide suggestions based on the time of the year and conditions to make your dreams reality and can plan a trip well suited to your needs and abilities which will make the most of your valuable time here in the mountains. In addition to private guiding, we have over 15 years of experience teaching rock climbing, mountaineering, glacier travel, crevasse rescue and rock rescue courses, please have a look at our Rock Climbing Courses Page.
If the listed courses are not what you are looking for, we can personally tailor a custom made program by defining your goals and achieving your objectives in a time frame that suits you or your group; in an appropriate environment conducive to success.
Winter Avalanche Courses
AST 1 Avalanche Skills Training 1 - Canmore / Calgary
You will also learn the most current and effective techniques in avalanche companion rescue where in the unlikely event that things were to ever go wrong, you are equipped with the knowledge and hands on skill to deal with an organized avalanche response.
AST 2 Avalanche Skills Training 2 - Canmore / Calgary
The AST Level 2 is all about taking the information you’ve learned on your AST 2 and taking it to the next level in a more complex mountain environment. You will be in real avalanche terrain making real decisions about how to move through that terrain while learning concepts which minimizes your exposure when its most important.
Ice Climbing Courses
Basic Ice Climbing Day Course
This program is designed to get you started ice climbing if you are brand new or relatively new to the sport. You will learn about ice climbing equipment and how to walk in crampons as well how to swing tools, front point, and transition into stances while staying in balance.
Learn to Lead Ice Climb Course
Taking the step to learn how to lead ice how lead ice is a profound leap in terms of skill and confidence. Leading ice is serious business and it requires commitment and the appropriate set of skills to move safely over this complex terrain.
Learn to Lead Multi-pitch Ice Climb Course
This program is for ice climbers with an experience level where they able to competently lead single Grade 3 or 4 ice routes minimum. You do not have to have necessarily climbed multi-pitch routes in the past to take this program.
Rock climbing Courses
ROCK CLIMBING DAY EXPERIENCE
This day will give you an introduction to sport of rock climbing.
You can expect to learn the fundamentals of safety and how to use the equipment in stunning settings around the Banff, Canmore, Kananakis or Lake Louise areas of the Canadian Rockies.
LEARN TO LEAD SPORT CLIMB
This program will provide you with the skill set required to learn how to lead on bolted sport routes or more popular termed sport climbing.
We will discuss site safety, hazards will identified, discussed and managed appropriately. On this as in all of our programs, we will work together to mitigate those hazards with situational awareness, good technique and personal protective equipment.
LEARN TRAD ROCK 101
Leading with 'trad' or traditional gear involves an extensive skill set, very solid movement skills and poignant protection placement strategies. This program is considered an intermediate to advanced level program so participants will want a few years of climbing experience which include being able to competently climb up to 5.8-5.9 sport routes and have a rudimentary understanding of anchor systems.
ROCK RESCUE SKILLS
Rock climbing is a subset sport of Alpinism - the main credo of our sport is self reliance. Multi-pitch rock climbing and big alpine wall climbing requires lots of experience, planning, a solid partner and a diverse set of skills not the least of which is be able to deal when things go sideways.
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Rock Climbing Courses
Rock Climbing Day Experience Course
This program is designed for beginners who wants to give rock climbing a try and finally understand what the all the hype is about.
Learn to Lead Sport Climb Course
This program will provide you with the skill set required to learn how to lead on bolted sport routes or more popular termed sport climbing.
Learn Trad Rock 101 Course
Leading with 'trad' or traditional gear involves an extensive skill set, very solid movement skills and poignant protection placement strategies.
Rock Rescue Skills Course
Rock climbing is a subset sport of Alpinism - the main credo of our sport is self reliance. Multi-pitch rock climbing and big alpine wall climbing requires lots of experience,
Avalanche Courses
AST 1
You will also learn the most current and effective techniques in avalanche companion rescue where in the unlikely event that things were to ever go wrong, you are equipped with the knowledge and hands on skill to deal with an organized avalanche response.
AST 2
The AST Level 2 is all about taking the information you’ve learned on your AST 2 and taking it to the next level in a more complex mountain environment. You will be in real avalanche terrain making real decisions about how to move through that terrain while learning concepts which minimizes your exposure when its most important.
