Let your kids challenge themselves in a fun, supportive environment while building relationships with their peers. This 9 week camp will offer ample opportunity to build a foundation of skills or take their adventuring to the next level. Each day will be full of hands-on experience and personalized instruction. 

Sign up for one session or the whole summer. Local kids and visitors are welcome~

Let your kids challenge themselves in a fun, supportive environment while building relationships with their peers. This 8 week camp will offer ample opportunity to build a foundation of skills or take their climbing to the next level. Each day will be full of hands-on experience and personalized instruction. This team-based camp is designed for local kids of CB to build rock skills, team skills, and explore their backyards. All abilities and skill levels are welcome. This is a fantastic opportunity for your child to develop climbing skills, strength, mobility, and confidence as well as new relationships with other children who share similar interests.

Consistently ranked as one of top mountain biking trails in the country, the full Monarch Crest Mountain Biking Trail connects several trails to combine for over 35 miles of predominately descending, over 6,000 feet of descent in total.  The trail starts with a shuttle drive to 11,312 feet at the top of Monarch Crest and spends the first few miles traversing along an alpine ridge with exceptional views of the Sawatch, San Juan, Elk, and Sangre de Cristo mountain ranges.  After riding up and down through this above treeline section, it connects to the Silver Creek and Rainbow trails for thousands of feet of descending all the way back to the Arkansas River Valley.  Not sure that you’re ready for the full ride?  It can easily be made easier using a different descent trail, or ridden as an out-and-back trail along the scenic and fun alpine section from Monarch Pass.

Colorado has more peaks over 14,000 feet than the rest of the United States combined!  Locally known as the 14ers, these peaks have made Colorado a mountain climbing destination.  Come experience the challenge and the views of climbing a 14er with Irwin Guides.

Whether it is your first mountaineering excursion or you are a seasoned veteran looking for a challenge, our guides can offer you a safe, fun, experience. Explore the 14ers of the Sawatch Range, which in the summer are non-technical and a great first 14er experience for any hiker.  They can also be climbed via snow routes in the spring time, using snowshoes or skis, crampons, and ice axes.  Or try one of the coveted Crestones routes, two of the hardest summits of any of the Colorado 14ers.  Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle can be climbed separately or combined into a single day, one of Colorado’s 4 “Great Traverses”.  Crestone Peak is also home to the Ellingwood Arete, one of the 50 Classic Climbs of North America.

Why Take a Private AIARE Course with Us

• Private AIARE Courses allow you to choose the date, location, format, and group for your course.
• By choosing your group, you’ll be able to learn and practice all your skills with the people that you’ll be skiing or splitboarding in the backcountry with.
• In a private AIARE course, our instructors will customize the course to the what your group is most interested in!
• Learn from trained professionals who are educators and guides alike. With professional avalanche mitigation experience from the backcountry, ski areas, snowcat, and heli skiing operations, both with and without the use of explosives.

Ski the classic Elk Mountains Traverse from Aspen to Crested Butte, spending the night at two different huts along the way, and exploring all of the ski terrain that they have to offer.  Or choose a 1-3 night trip here in Crested Butte’s backyard ski terrain.

Either way, Irwin Guides backcountry hut trips are private and custom to you.  Let us tailor the trip to the group’s desires and ability levels.

Explore some of the most iconic peaks around Crested Butte with our highly knowledgeable and experienced guides, every Friday throughout summer! Rely on your guide to lead you safely to the area’s most breathtaking high-elevation lookouts while enjoying quality time with fellow adventurers in the community.

Let your kids challenge themselves in a fun, supportive environment while building relationships with their peers. This 8 week camp will offer ample opportunity to build a foundation of skills or take their climbing to the next level. Each day will be full of hands-on experience and personalized instruction. This team-based camp is designed for local kids of CB to build rock skills, team skills, and explore their backyards. All abilities and skill levels are welcome. This is a fantastic opportunity for your child to develop climbing skills, strength, mobility, and confidence as well as new relationships with other children who share similar interests.