Cloud Nine Guides
YOUR MOUNTAIN GUIDES IN CANMORE & BANFF
Ultimate mountain experiences for inspired adventurers.
Located in Canmore, Alberta, the gateway to Banff National Park.
Join us for single or multi-day adventures in rock climbing, waterfall and glacier ice climbing, mountaineering, backcountry ski touring, splitboarding, and licensed avalanche education.
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Our team of IFMGA and ACMG Certified Mountain and Specialty Guides are recognized as senior professionals and educators with an exemplary safety record in trips and programs provided across the globe. With decades of local experience in the mountains of Western Canada, we provide trips, programs, skills courses, and experiences for all ability levels from novice to expert.
Browse our selection of featured trips below, and contact our full time Program Managers by phone or email any time for additional trip information or booking assistance.
YOUR BEST WINTER STARTS HERE
AST 1 - CANMORE, BANFF & LAKE LOUISE
Get backcountry-ready this winter. Weekend courses Nov–Mar in Canmore, Banff & Lake Louise, or go private with your crew. From $335/seat.
AST 1 - GOLDEN
Your crew, your dates, Golden’s legendary terrain. A private AST 1 for groups of 4+, run by our local ACMG guides. From $395/seat.
AST 1 - REVELSTOKE
Learn about avalanche terrain where the snow runs deep. A private AST 1 for your Revelstoke crew of 6+, on your dates. From $395/seat.
AST CONNECT+
Got your AST 1? Turn it into real backcountry mileage with educational ski & split touring days that build your skills and confidence toward AST 2. From $259/day.
AST 2 - BANFF & LAKE LOUISE
Ready for bigger lines? Learn about trip planning and travel in challenging and complex terrain on the Icefields Parkway & Lake Louise Group. From $849/seat.
AST 2 - GOLDEN & ROGERS PASS
The Holy Grail of AST 2 Courses: two parts Selkirks, a dash of the Purcells all on your doorstep. Game on. From $1,239/seat.
Private Ski & Splitboard Guides - Canmore • Banff • Lake Louise
Your day, your goals. Your guide picks the best terrain for the day, teaching you whatever you'd like to learn along the way. Banff, Lake Louise & 93N. From $215/person.
The Wapta Ski Traverse
Canada’s classic hut-to-hut ski traverse, high on the Continental Divide. 3–5 days across the Wapta Icefield with guiding, huts & meals included. From $1,100/person.
SUMMER Adventures - Trips & COURSES
L1 - Outdoor Lead Lesson
Level 1: Take your climbing from Gym to the Crags. Learn to lead on real rock on this Learn to Rock Climb Series Course, provided with our partners at the CCC. $245/student.
L2 - Multi-Pitch Systems Course
Level 2: Ready for longer routes? Learn the systems and skills to climb sport multi-pitch safely and efficiently. $525/student.
L3 - Rock Rescue Systems Course
Level 3: Know what to do when things go wrong. Essential rescue skills for single and multi-pitch climbing. $525/student.
L4 - Trad Rock Systems Course
Level 4: Learn to place high-integrity traditional and natural protection, leading your first trad pitch with our Guide beside you all the way up. $525/student.
The BMC
The Premiere Intro to Mountaineering: 6 days from first crampon steps roped up on a glacier to short-roping summits, with your private crew of 4+. $2,500/student.
CREVASSE RESCUE SYSTEMS
Travel glaciers with confidence and competence. Learn to read the ice, move as a rope team, and respond to a crevasse fall on this 2-day course. From $529/seat.
Mount Athabasca
Summit an Icefields Parkway giant (3,491 m) via the AA Col or a technical North Face route. From $617/person.
Mount Aberdeen
Two summits above Lake Louise: climb Mount Aberdeen & Mount Haddo with our IFMGA Mountain Guides. From $445/person.
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