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Trips & courses

What's running, what comes back every year, and how to get on it.

Guided By Adventure runs a rolling calendar rather than a fixed catalogue — trips are announced in batches through the year, and a handful of favourites come back every season. Everything below is a real departure or a real recurring event.

On the calendar now

Departures for the rest of 2026.

Prices are as published. Multi-day trips take a deposit and payment plans are available on every one of them.

Valemount, BC

Valemount Backcountry Adventure

28–30 July 2026 · and again 1–3 August 2026

Two nights of true backcountry camping in the mountains around Valemount, with a big main hike, hands-on learning and a pre-trip meet-up the evening before. Group food and group gear — camp kitchen and water filter — are supplied, so leave room in your pack. You arrange your own accommodation in Valemount the night before.

Price

$380 + GST · $95 deposit

Format

Backcountry camping, two nights out

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Likely & Quesnel Forks, Cariboo

Likely Historic Adventure

14–16 August 2026

A cedar-scented Cariboo weekend built around a comfortable group campsite with room for tents and small trailers. Explore Quesnel Forks, a preserved gold-rush ghost town at the confluence of the Quesnel and Cariboo rivers, paddle or swim at the lake beside camp, and summit a quiet caribou-country trail.

Price

$360 + GST · $90 deposit

Format

Front-country camping — relaxed

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Canadian Rockies, north of Golden BC

Hut-to-Hut Adventure with Icefall Lodge

4–8 September 2026

A four-night, five-day alpine traverse run in partnership with Icefall Lodge. Guests meet at the Icefall staging area about 45 minutes north of Golden and fly in by helicopter to the first cabin. Glaciers, waterfalls, cedar forest and backcountry hospitality.

Price

$2,200 + GST

Format

Four nights, hut-to-hut — the big one

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Divide Lake trail, South Okanagan

Intro to Backcountry Camping

18–20 September 2026

Three days and two nights learning the basics of wilderness travel in a supportive group. Roughly 6 km in with about 540 m of elevation gain. You hike in together, set up camp as a team, cook proper meals, play with navigation, and leave able to plan your own trips.

Price

From $450 · deposit option available

Format

Beginner-friendly — no experience needed

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Cathedral Provincial Park

Cathedral Fall Backpacking Trip

24–27 September 2026

Late September in Cathedral Park, when the alpine larches turn gold against granite and turquoise lakes. The Cathedral Lakes Lodge shuttle carries you from the trailhead straight into the alpine, so you set a comfortable basecamp and explore on day hikes with light packs instead of hauling everything.

Price

$681.45

Format

Larch season — basecamp style

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Every year

The ones that come back.

Dates for these are released season by season. If one of them is what you're waiting for, say so and we'll make sure you hear first.

Third weekend of June · Wells, BC

The Little Hiking Festival

A whole weekend of hiking, workshops, live music, a pancake breakfast and group yoga in a small Cariboo mountain town where the trailheads are minutes away. Hikes run at every fitness level; kids twelve and under go free.

Late January / early February · Wells, BC

Wells Snowshoe Festival

A weekend of snowshoeing built around the Cariboo Cup — a friendly 5 km or 10 km snowshoe race — plus a night-time walk under the stars, family games, a film night at the Sunset Theatre and a guided snowshoe on the Sunday. Proceeds go to the Wells and Area Trails Society.

June · Coffee Pot Mountain, Prince George

Wander Women — Brunch in the Bush

A deliberately unhurried mountain morning for women: a wander up Coffee Pot Mountain, forty-five minutes of alpine yoga, and a proper curated brunch at the top. Not a race, not a summit push.

Spring · Peachland, BC

Guided By Foundations — Trail Skills Day

A day of trip planning, Gaia GPS in real time, pacing and terrain awareness, plus a wildlife-awareness session with inert bear spray to practise on — wrapped around a good hike in the Peachland hills.

February · South Okanagan

Winter Camping & Travel Course

A three-part course: an evening classroom session, a field day, and an overnight winter camp. Layering systems, cold management, snowshoe technique, winter navigation and how to build a comfortable camp in the snow.

March · Martin’s Pass, above Wells BC

Winter Cabin Adventure

Snowshoe about 5 km to an off-grid cabin with six bunks and a wood stove. Build a quinzee, learn snow-structure safety and camp-kitchen setup. All food, guiding, cabin fees and snowshoes or cross-country skis included.

Outdoor education

Workshops you can book for a group.

The standard Outdoor Skills workshop runs about four hours and covers fire building with a flint, knots for shelters, tarps and food hangs, animal awareness, basic wilderness first aid, backcountry cooking, navigation and water purification. Longer and overnight formats are available.

  • Stand Up Paddle Boarding instruction
  • Outdoor & survival skills workshops
  • Gaia GPS and map-and-compass navigation
  • Avalanche training for snowshoers
  • Intro to backcountry travel
  • Winter safety & travel
  • AdventureSmart presentations
  • Foraging evenings
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Build your own

Custom, private itineraries are put together for families and intergenerational trips, milestone birthdays and retirements, couples and anniversaries, special interest groups and corporate teams — anywhere from Penticton and the Okanagan to the Cariboo and Prince George. Take an existing trip and change it, or start from a blank page.

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Winter 2026/27

Snowshoe dates are announced in the autumn.

Moonlight walks, day trips, the Wells Snowshoe Festival, the cabin overnight and the winter camping course all go on sale before the snow arrives, and the small ones sell out. Get on the list now, or book a private snowshoe day for your group on your own date.

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