About Big Wild Wilderness backpacking is the most rewarding way to experience a bit of the original America. It's simply walking through the wilds while carrying food, tent, sleeping bag and clothing in a modern, comfortable backpack. And because you do it on your own two feet, you'll feel a dramatic sense of accomplishment. It's also the camaraderie of small groups sharing wonders of nature that few others ever experience.
Our trips are planned to allow plenty of leisure time, including opportunities to explore the wild with only a light daypack. Even our strenuous trips have one or two layover days, where we spend two nights in a row at the same camp. Backpacking is suited to anybody who is healthy, reasonably fit, and open to new ways of viewing and experiencing the natural world.
Big Wild Adventures is a licensed guide and outfitter with the U.S Forest Service, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management. Big Wild Adventures is an Equal Opportunity Service Provider. We have run over 500 multi-day treks since our inception in 1978 and are widely regarded as the leading backpacking company in the United States! We arrange all trip details, secure all required permits, provide transportation from town to and from the trailheads, outfit our guests with quality equipment, and supply three hearty meals daily plus snacks.
All Guides are professionals with many years of wilderness leadership experience. Your guide will not be an inexperienced young adult. Our guides are trained in wilderness medicine and emergency search and rescue procedures. They are also naturalists who enjoy sharing their knowledge of each area's unique flora, fauna and geology. We emphasize safety, the utilization of low-impact hiking and camping techniques, and exploring seldom visited, little-known wilderness haunts. Our guides are also glad to provide any desired instruction in a variety of wilderness skills.
Wildlife: Viewing wildlife - large and small - is an integral part of the wilderness experience. Our guides know how to spot critters, and they know where to look, depending upon the season and conditions. Although we cannot guarantee any particular level of sightings on any given trip, wildlife is important to us, and chances are great that a Big Wild Adventure will provide an opportunity to watch native animals in their unspoiled natural habitats.
Wilderness: All of our trips are in a wilderness environment with no roads, automobiles, houses, telephones, etc. We specialize in exploring truly remote country. Our guides know the secret wild places, off the beaten path, where few other humans are encountered. In other words, we don't simply hike and camp along major trails; we explore and discover the magical hidden wonders of real wilderness!
Our Conservation Philosophy: Many of America's remaining public wild lands are rapidly disappearing. Logging, mining, road building, resort development, livestock grazing, all-terrain vehicles, subdivisions and more are squeezing our wild lands and wildlife into increasingly small enclaves.
Though our trips are generally within protected areas, it is the policy of Big Wild Adventures to support the efforts of those organizations working to save unprotected wild lands and to restore the American Wilderness. Our guides are well versed in wild land conservation, and are happy to share this information with our groups. In fact while many outdoor companies support and contribute to conservation groups, Howie and Marilyn plus our other guides are working conservationists on the front lines of political and educational efforts to protect wild lands and wildlife habitats. For example, Howie and Marilyn run a small non-profit conservation organization called Big Wild Advocates, which promotes wilderness and wildlife habitat protection and restoration, and Howie is now board President of the national conservation group Wilderness Watch, which promotes proper stewardship of existing designated Wilderness. Big Wild Adventures is also a leader in practicing and promoting low-impact wilderness use techniques.
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