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Backpacking and Canoeing in the Rocky Mountain West and More
Founded by Howie Wolke in 1978, Big Wild Adventures offers fully
outfitted guided backpacking in the wilderness of the American
West and Alaska. You will be hiking and camping in the beautiful
Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Montana, including Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons. Our hiking trips also explore the colorful canyons,
deserts and highlands of Arizona, New Mexico, California and southern Utah,
including the incomparable Escalante and Grand Canyons. Or, you will canoeing and camping in the watery wilds of Florida’s Everglades National Park, Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, Utah’s spectacular Labyrinth Canyon or the wild upper Missouri River in north-central Montana.
Experienced Backpacking and Canoeing Guides
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.
Fully Guided/Outfitted and Well-Planned Adventures
Let our vast experience in organizing, planning, and leading wilderness
backpacking treks set your mind at ease and your body in motion.
Join us for the adventure vacation of a lifetime. Enjoy the magnificent
natural beauty of the real America and the timeless peace and
tranquility of real wilderness!
Yellowstone
We don't just live next to Yellowstone National Park, we know
the wonders of its expansive backcountry better than anyone! Though
most tourists never venture far from their automobiles, our Yellowstone
trips are in true wilderness. In fact, because much of the park
is bordered by large protected national forest Wilderness Areas,
Yellowstone's backcountry includes some of our country's most
remote wildlands south of Alaska. And Yellowstone landscapes are
so varied that each trip is radically different, a truly unique
wild adventure. Join us on one of our guide/naturalist-led adventures
into the wilds of the world's first national park.
Big Wild Trips
There is a list of scheduled trips by region available on
the right side of every interior page of this web site. To view
a chronological list of our trips, click
here. We also offer custom and family trips. For more information,
click here or call (406) 848-7000.
2010 Prices Same as 2009!
Our Trips Are Fun!
No Prior Experience Is Necessary!
 PLEASE NOTE: Big Wild Adventures now owns Wild Horizons Expeditions, which was originally founded and run by Big Wild owners Howie Wolke and Marilyn Olsen. With Howie and Marilyn now again owning Wild Horizons, its trips in the Grand Tetons, Wind Rivers, and Gros Ventre Mountains of northwest Wyoming, plus Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, will be included in our Big Wild Adventures 2010 trip program, giving our clients an even wider choice of unsurpassed wilderness adventure!
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Backpacking and Canoeing with Big Wild Adventures
To
find out everything you need to know to prepare for our
scheduled trips, click
here. You'll find information on connecting and lodging,
food, equipment, and physical conditioning.
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How
to Arrange A Trip
Simply complete the Questionnaire
and return it to us along with the attached contract and
your deposit. We'll then send you confirmation, a complete
list of clothing and other items which you should bring,
and additional information about your upcoming backpacking
adventure. Reservations are taken on a first-come, first-served
basis.
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Big Wild Adventures is happy to send you a list of references
upon request.
Commission Available for Travel Agents.
Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Absarokas, Beartooths, Gros Ventres, Bob Marshall/Rocky Mountain Front, Selway-Bitterroot, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Gila Wilderness, Death Valley Mountains, Grand Canyon, Canyonlands, Escalante Canyons, Upper Missouri River, Labyrinth Canyon, Boundary Waters, Everglades.
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