Custom Trekking

Yes! All the places we guide are rugged. But we can almost always create itineraries that work for folks first or second time in the backcountry.

• Professional Mountain Guide with over 17 years climbing experience around the world & advanced wilderness medical training.

• All group gear: tents, group shelters, cooking equipment, water purification, first aid kit, emergency communication device, maps, compasses, GPS, Bear spray, bear-safe food storage.

• Airfares to or from your home city, whether on scheduled or charter flights.

• Personal gear: clothing, backpack, etc

• Food and accommodations.

• Guide’s travel (for custom international trips or certain custom Alaska trips.

• Tips for guides.

If backpacking isn’t your thing, no worries — for Alaska trips we can basecamp and never switch sites. For trips in Nepal or elsewhere this isn’t an option.

For Alaska basecamp trips we’ll fly in, transport our gear to a beautiful site and then spend the days in camp, cooking beautiful meals, going on day hikes to cool vistas, crafting, playing cards, reading, in good conversation…whatever the moment calls for.

We’ve been teaching people how to move through the mountains for over a decade. Anything you want to learn we can help you get there! Even if you consider yourself an expert backpacker, we can likely teach you a bunch of useful tools to smooth out your systems.

In Alaska, almost all backpacking trips we guide start and end with a plane. Alaskan bush pilots are some of the best on the planet and they’ll put us down either on the tundra (with massive tundra tires) or on a lake (with floats). From there we’ll go on our way and the plane will take off out of sight and sound.

We’ll arrange a pickup spot with the pilot — but thanks to modern technology we can text via satellite from the field to change plans if needed. Way better than the old days when you just had to hope everything worked out.

We have people come on our trips by themselves all the time! There’s nothing like travel through remote wilderness to build community. Our prices are based on double occupancy of rooms. if you’re traveling alone we’ll ask you to pay a one time solo - travel supplement to cover the extra cost of the room. Please inquire for updated pricing.

Indigo Alpine Guide trips are most often run by the owner Jack Bynum and his closest and most trusted friends. All the people who work for IAG have over a decade of experience guiding trips in the most remote places on earth, have wilderness medical training and advanced guiding certifications.

For Day Trips:

If you cancel for any reason prior to 30 days before the course start, you may rebook a later date for 100% credit, subject to availability, or receive a refund. If you cancel between 7 and 30 days prior to the course start, you may reschedule subject to availability. Between 7 and 30 days there are no refunds. If you cancel inside of 7 days from the course start, there are no reschedules or refunds available. This includes, but is not limited to:

– Injury/illness (positive cover exposure excepted)

– Weather, mountain and travel conditions (please see #4 below)

– Personal scheduling changes

For Multi-day Trips:

You may cancel up to 120 days of the scheduled travel date and receive a full refund minus a $500 per-person service fee. If you cancel between 120 and 60 days of travel, there is a 50% cancellation fee. Within 60 days of travel, there is a 100% cancellation fee. We highly recommend purchasing travel insurance as we are not able to make exceptions to this policy in cases of family/medical emergency or of the trip being canceled.

We always encourage folks to purchase trip cancelation insurance in addition to the mandatory medical evacuation insurance. We require that you have at least $200,000 in medical evacuation insurance. Your insurance policy should cover hazardous sports and we recommend that your policy cover search and rescue. Since we cannot confirm each client’s policy individually, it is your responsibility to make sure your policy will cover you while you participate in your activities of choice on the expedition.

For US citizens, we recommend Global Rescue. You will have a choice of purchasing it with or without the cancellation coverage–so make sure to select the one that gives you the coverage that you need. Other commonly used companies include World Nomads and Squaremouth.

You are welcome to seek out other insurance options, as these are only recommendations. When selecting a policy, please make sure they insure all the activities you’ll be participating in (many don’t include roped climbing, skiing, mountaineering, etc).