Upcoming Trips and Courses

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  • On-line Anchors Course

    A two hour online session to check learn or refresh your anchor knowledge and to test some of your...

    16 SPOTS LEFT
    Apr 29, 2025 (day trip)
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  • Rock Refresher

    Refresh skills and tighten up safety systems with this one-day rock refresher course. Perfect for...

    2 SPOTS LEFT
    May 18, 2025 (day trip)
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  • Combined Alpine Skills

    Perfect for the budding mountaineer! Over four days, participants will gain the basic skills necessary...

    6 SPOTS LEFT
    May 22 - 25, 2025
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Acknowledgement

We at Island Alpine Guides are grateful for the privilege to live, work and play on the unceded, traditional territories of the First Peoples listed below, who have been the stewards of these lands for millennia:
 
Da’naxda’xw, Ahousaht, Scia'new, Ditidaht, Cowichan, Ehatteshaht, Gwa'sala-Nakwaxda'xw Band, Halalt, Heiltsuk, Hesquiaht, Homalco, Hupačasath, Huu-ay-aht, K'ómoks, Ka:'yu:'k't'h'/Che:k:tles7et'h', Klahoose, Kwakiutl, Kwiakah, Kwicksutaineuk-ah-kwaw-ah-mish, Lyackson, Malahat, Mamalilikulla-Qwe'Qwa'Sot'Em , Mowachaht/Muchalaht, Namgis. Nanoose, Nuchatlaht, Nuxalk, Pacheedaht, Pauquachin, Penelakut, Qualicum, Quatsino, Snuneymuxw, Songhees, Stz'uminus, T'Sou-ke, Tla'amin, Tla-o-qui-aht, Tlowitsis, Toquaht, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseshaht, Tseycum, Uchucklesaht, We Wai Kai and Wei Wai Kum.

Important - Please Read

All Island Alpine Guides courses and trips take place in an outdoor, wilderness environment. This means that as a participant you will be encountering various risks, dangers, and hazards, some of which include avalanches, cornices, crevasses, cliffs, trees, creeks, rockfall, difficult travel conditions, weather, illness, equipment failure, wild animals, becoming lost as well as the possibility of mistakes being made by IAG guides and instructors.

To participate in these activities you will be required to read and agree to our waivers as part of the registration process. You will also be required to sign the waivers at the start of the course or trip. In doing so you will waive or give up certain legal rights including the right to sue or to claim compensation following an accident.

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Testimonials

Thank you to our instructor, Mike, for sharing his expertise and lifelong mountain knowledge — from hoar frost to facets, from convexities and overburden, to runout zone and debris field. He made the companion rescue interesting and challenging....
Thomas & Waltraud Radetzki, Sooke, BC » AST1 Washington - for Skiers and Boarders
Your guide, Jen Olson, is a gem. Her calm confidence and ability to take charge made all of us feel safe in a terrain that was quasi unknown to us. Not only is her skill set insanely broad but most importantly, Jen is capable to teach those skills...
Genevieve Renart, Victoria, BC » Women's Mountain Skills Fly-In
The course was exactly what my partner and I were looking for. I left feeling very confident in our ability to top rope outdoors. I appreciated Dane's emphasis on safety and always taking the time to explain exactly why a certain technique or tool...
Rowan , Intro to Rock 102 - Comox Lake Crags » Intro to Rock 102