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Skiing with better skiers makes you a better skier. And the same is true of skiing with better route finders, snow scientists, rescuers, steep skiers, and alpinists. TGR film crews don’t just show up on location and rip the gnar—they trust guides, and, to be fair, private snow safety experts, of whom there are scores. But guides are also available to the skiing masses. Many of Volken’s students backfill between classes with guided days as they progress from intro to ski touring to avalanche training to rescue clinics to steep-skiing instruction. “The trend we’re seeing now is with urban skiers who want to progress their knowledge as quickly as possible,” Volken says. “That started before COVID, but it’s certainly accelerating now. Backcountry skiing used to be composed of a small number of participants with a high degree of sophistication. Now it’s composed of a high number of participants with less sophistication. But with all the resources available to them nowadays, that will improve. Guiding is one component.”

In the Tetons, Sarah Carpenter—who bought the American Avalanche Institute from Newcomb—is seeing that same trend play out. “I would say the thought process goes like, ‘OK, the avalanche class I just took is one learning tool. Now I want to hire you as a guide as another tool.’ Before, it was mostly the DIY crowd taking an Avalanche 1 class and never coming back for more training. There are other benefits. I don’t know how many people are hiring guides to get a lay of the land and find good snow, but, man, is that a good thing to do.”  ANDIEZ Personalized African Girl Precious Unique Special Lovely Forgiven Poster

North American touring and ski mountaineering guides both welcome and actively encourage questioning. Route-finding and decision-making are collaborative. The goal, Exum guide Brenton Reagan once told me as I shadowed a steep-skiing camp in Grand Teton National Park, is to train clients so that they can pursue ever more difficult—and fun—terrain. In the short term, that’s self-serving. The guides hope the clients book those adventures with them. But in the long term, it’s about clients growing as ski alpinists instead of plateauing like so many recreationists do. A few former Exum clients have gone on to become guides themselves.

As admirable a goal as it is, DIY backcountry isn’t for everyone. But our public lands are.

So, guiding: a chance to ski with elite mountain folk and float more untracked powder, all while accelerating your learning. That concept probably would have caught on sooner stateside had it not been so hard to find skilled ski guides. Until recently, guided skiing in the United States was a crapshoot. Because just anybody could do it, just anybody did—and clients didn’t think to ask about experience. Sometimes you lucked into connecting with a pro who, even though they’d never gone through any accreditation process, guided at an elite level. Other times, you were placing your life in questionable hands.

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