2026 JOB POSITIONS

Your Job Description

You thrive in the wilderness. Connecting people with the natural world, providing outdoor adventure experiences while educating and leading is your thing. You strive to maintain high standards of safety, planning, and training with a friendly and knowledgeable professionalism.

What does good look like?

The role is simple: connect your clients with a safe and healthy wilderness outdoor adventure that they’ll remember fondly for years to come. Responsibly get them in and out of the backcountry and home to their loved ones.

Tasks

Seasonal Guiding opportunity for experienced lead guide only. Backpacking and hiking trips, the job also includes packrafting and sea kayaking trips, and rafting trips.

Prep and pack, backcountry cooking, and guiding clients, from novice to experienced guests in various regions throughout Alaska.

We have a gear and equipment manager who handles most of the trip packing and unpacking and gear repair. Approximately 50% of our clients do their own food.

Thanks.
Season typically runs June through mid-September.

Preferred Technical Qualifications

Recommended age 25 or greater with a minimum of 3 years trip leading experience including a diversity of terrain and routes. Maybe waived for exceptional candidates.

Wilderness resume showing a minimum of 50 days outdoor adventure per year.

Demonstrated ability to currently and safely lead off-trail routes and trips

Wilderness First Responder and CPR certification (both must be current)

Swiftwater rescue is preferable, 3 years experience, lead guide position.

Any other applicable qualifications like Avvy rescue, SAR, team management training.

Demonstrated ability in the following: wilderness travel, backpacking, camping, route-finding, navigation teaching and leadership, backcountry equipment (including backpacking, kayaking, packrafting, rafting), natural history, environmental consciousness, judgment and decision-making, improvised rescue, general outdoor skills.

Requires excellent people skills, solid organizational skills, and a strong knowledge of outdoor activities and outdoor equipment.

Preference will be given to Alaskan residents, and to candidates seeking multiple seasons of employment and who are pursuing further guide education and certification.

Excellent physical fitness.

You do well with our audience. Nearly all of our clients are adults; most are working professionals or recently retired, and many have children and spouses. What experiences do you have in relating to this audience?

Office Admin

Office Administrative Assistant

Position is an office gig .. mostly computer-based, replying to emails, dealing with organizing documents, trip planner documents, compiling forms, confirming arrangements with vendors such as air taxis, lodging, etc. Coordinating with clients on trip planning information.

You need a laptop or desktop, some understanding of modern office admin tools and project management software.

You’ll need to be an EXCELLENT self-starter, organizer and communicator. An eye for detail and willingness to pay attention to minutia are absolutely a must.

You’ll respond to client emails and help steer them to the trip that best matches their interest/needs.

Some basics are email management. Access to a printer is preferred.

With some training you’ll help organize trip logistics, calling vendors such as air taxis and hotels to make arrangements for our trips.

You’ll coordinate with our guides and gear personnel to provide the info they need to prepare and run trips.

You’ll also be our primary “Fact Checker”, confirming all our dates and schedules and rosters align.

Work your own hours, just make sure the work is done in a timely responsible manner.

Pay (negotiable) starts @ $20/hr, or up to $25/hr depending on experience and performance. Starting out approx 20 hours/week, though that’s flexible.

As an independent contractor, you pay your own taxes.

Not required, but … we’d prefer you to be in Alaska and preferably in the Anchorage-Matsu Valley area.

Summer is our busy time and we’re unfortunately now having to scramble to find someone this close to the season start. Please be able to start asap.

Please get in touch ASAP.

Thanks so much.

Gear Manager

We are looking for a motivated, responsible person to help out with our outdoor gear packing and prepping and cleaning and maintenance. It’s a casual environment, but we still need to get things done. Your schedule is somewhat flexible, but must fit within trip dates; ie, if a trip starts on July 1, you can pack for that on June 28, or 27, etc, but it needs to be complete and organized ahead of time, in a timely manner.

Additional tasks could include shuttling clients in our van to McCarthy and/or Glennallen if needed (maybe once or twice a summer).

Communication skills with our crew are critical. Organizational skills are equally so.

Pay starts @ $25/hr. In recent years this position paid nearly $7000 in 3 months and it’s only getting busier. As an independent contractor, you pay your own taxes.

Hours are flexible, and often should be coordinated with guides and their trips. Morning seems to work well.

Requirements: clean gear, organize gear repair, some basic gear repair/patches (we can train you), pack for trips and decommission, clean, dry, and put away gear after trips. Additional things like manage inventory, order/purchase food and other items for trips,

Gear is mostly backpacking equipment and packrafting gear.

The location is in Anchorage in the U Med district.

You’ll need a driver’s license and a good driving record.

Contract runs May 15-Oct 10 (can vary).

Thanks.