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Page updated: 6/6/2008
Read this, then apply below
- Are you OK backpacking as few as only 4 miles per day at a slow pace?
- Can you inspire a slow hiker who is physically and emotionally drained to continue?
- Are you willing to help 8 people hoist and adjust their packs after every rest stop?
- Will you do all camp chores (water filtration, tent set-up, cooking, cleaning) while participants are learning
to do these things?
- Can you handle loading your pack up with a tired hiker's personal items at the end of a long day?
- Are you OK escorting trip dropouts to the nearest road and hiking back alone several miles to join the group?
- Can you shake-down a first time backpacker's gear and assure them they'll be fine?
- Can you anticipate clients' needs even before they are aware of these needs?
- Are you able to mediate disagreements among participants?
- Are you sensitive and compassionate? Can you put yourself in someone else's shoes?
- How is your disposition after 4 straight days of rain?
Guide Requirements
- Current Wilderness First Reponder or Wilderness EMT Certification (SOLO, WMA, WMI, NOLS)
- Versed in Leave No Trace principles
- Thorough knowledge of backpacking equipment
- At least 6 weeks of backpacking / camping experience.
- Experience leading groups in an outdoor setting (not necessarily backpacking). Leading NOLS, Ropes, Sea Kayaking, or
summer camp is OK, but leading a project development team in releasing an operating system isn't.
- Can backpack a minimum of 15 miles per day carrying 60 pounds
- Map & Compass Skills
- Valid driver's license
- Patience
Desirable Skills
- Cooking Skills
- Versed in nutrition and weight loss
- Difficult to upset
- MacGyver-like improvisational Skills
- Great sense of humor
- Good Photographer
- Firebuilding Skills
- Good Phone Skills
- A zest for life
How it works
To become a Fitpacking guide, we ask that you join us for a trip as an unpaid assistant.
If you are the type of person that we think would make an excellent guide, we will ask
you back for a future trip with pay.
We pay a pittance unfortunately, but there are worse things than getting paid to
backpack all day. We pay a set amount per week (about $500 for first timers, more thereafter)
along with a per diem that comes to
approximately $25 per day for off trail days ($50-$100 depending upon number of off days).
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