Karsten Delap was recently awarded the The Doug Parker and Roger Baxter-Jones Memorial Scholarship, which paid for his nine-day Alpine Exam in Cascade National Park. The exam saw poor weather, but with good planning they were able to get the exam done. In this video, Delap shows some beautiful footage of the landscape in which […]
Ed Crothers, CIP Director President Woodrow Wilson, a renowned orator and speechwriter, was once asked how long it takes him to write and prepare for a speech. He quipped, “…if you would like me to speak for 15 minutes, I will need 2 weeks; for 30 minutes, 1 week; for 1 hour, 1 day; for […]
In this Elevation Outdoors article, climber/writer Rob Coppolillo talks about the guiding life and the steps one needs to take to become a guide. Coppolillo is close to becoming a full certified guide. He has finished all his AMGA courses, and the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA) recognizes him as an “aspirant guide” […]
We definitely felt like this was the most successful, engaging, and educational Annual Meeting the AMGA has ever held. Apparently many participants felt the same way. Thanks so much to Karsten Delap for capturing some really great photographic moments with our guides, and thanks to our guides for offering feedback. Look for a photo essay […]
The fall/winter 2013 GUIDE Bulletin features an Unroped profile of Petzl Scholarship recipient Andrew Yasso. Here, on The Guiding Life blog, we present an extended Q & A with Yasso with material we didn’t have room for in the print article. AMGA: What steps did you take to become a guide? Andrew Yasso: At Central […]
This is the presentation Outreach & Advocacy Director Scott Massey gave at the Round Table Discussion on Access at the 2013 Annual Meeting. Given the development of new supervision and terrain guidelines for Accredited Businesses, the goal was to educate members on what the new guidelines stated, as well as answer any questions. In addition, he […]
On October 24, the Boulder Weekly published an article on the AMGA and the High Altitude Symposium, which the AMGA facilitated as the opening event of its Annual Meeting. The Symposium was the first of its kind in the world, and received kudos from numerous participants. We are featuring the Symposium in the Mountain Buzz […]
By Jesse Williams, UIAGM / AMGA guiding working with Cloudsplitter Mountain Guides LLC One time, at ski camp, I put a pole in my puffy. Doug, Pete, and I were headed late out of the gate on a week-long traverse of the Wapta Icefields in the Canadian Rockies. It had been a long night of […]
We’re in the throes of finishing up the winter 2013/2014 GUIDE Bulletin. It’s going to be a good one! We’ve fully covered the Annual Meeting in our Mountain Buzz news section, including an overview of the High Altitude Symposium, the awards ceremony, and the round table. We’ll be publishing Scott Massey’s Power Point Presentation in […]
At this year’s Annual Meeting, the AMGA took the educational opportunities they offer to guides to the next level by organizing and hosting a one-day seminar on advanced mountain medicine for guides. Called the Advanced Mountain Medicine for Guides, it brought together experts in the medical industry with an audience of professional high altitude and […]