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High quality friends, around the world!
Mountain Trip has always felt more like a family than a company, a family within a village of like-minded friends and kindred spirits. We'd like to introduce you to some of the other villagers... |
Clothing and Gear for Alpinists |
Patagonia
Patagonia's Mission statement speaks volumes: "Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis." Patagonia has shown that you can make "doing the right thing" a sound business model. They make awesome clothing for the types of trips that we run, as well as very styley casual clothes. They have invested in some of the most cutting edge social and environmental programs in the industry and we think they are great!
www.patagonia.com |
Equipment for Alpinists |
Black Diamond
Mountain Trip is proud to support Black Diamond, Ltd. The mission of Black Diamond is to design, manufacture and bring to market innovative technical products that answer the real needs of passionate climbers and skiers. To be one with the sports they serve and indistinguishable from them. To focus their tireless efforts on the protection and preservation of the wild country we depend on for solace, recreation and our business. What began with a backyard anvil and a hammer in 1957 has grown into a global company that stands for the spirit of the sports we live, their values and goals, past, present and future. We feel that they really act responsibly and make some great gear!
www.blackdiamondequipment.com |
Technical Footwear |
La Sportiva
Mountain Trip is proud to be in partnership with La Sportiva. La Sportiva boots have been keeping the feet of our guides and many of our climbers warm for years and we believe in their products. We pursued this partnership solely because we found that most of our guides were wearing their products while trail running, pulling down on rock routes, scratching up frigid ice lines and in the big mountains. Obviously, you should choose the boot that best fits your foot, but we encourage you to consider La Sportiva boots and shoes, as they work great for us.
www.sportiva.com |
The Gang at TAT, in their element. |
Talkeetna Air Taxi
Climber owned Talkeetna Air Taxi (TAT) has been shuttling climbers in and out of the Alaska Range for decades. We choose to fly with them because of the unparalleled level of service that they have consistantly provided us and because they now feel like family. Paul Roderick is the Director of Operations and his staff includes some of the most skilled pilots flying in the bush. If you have extra time on your hands in Alaska, definitely take a scenic flight into the Alaska Range. We get to see a small slice of the Range on our flights to and from the mountain, but there is so much more to see!
www.talkeetnaair.com |
Clint on one of the hundreds of routes in the Ouray Ice Park. |
San Juan Mountain Guides
Clint Cook and his company, San Juan Mountain Guides take an educational approach to professional instruction and guiding that will contribute to a lifetime of safe and successful climbing. They offer year round rock, ice and mountain guiding and instruction in and outside of Ouray Colorado and are a licensed guide in the world famous Ouray Ice Park. Clint and one of his lead guides, Kevin Koprek, both guide for us in Alaska and are really fun to climb with.
www.ourayclimbing.com |
Nate and Keeton Disser enjoying the winter in SW Colorado |
Southwest Adventure Guides
Southwest Adventure guides is owned an operated by Nate Disser, who also works for us in Alaska. SWAG is a year-round guide service, guiding spring and summer rock climbing, mountaineering and mountain biking trips and courses in Southwest Colorado and Southeast Utah, as well as high altitude mountaineering expeditions and courses in Peru, Bolivia, and Alaska. In the winter months they conduct avalanche courses, backcountry skiing, ice climbing and winter mountaineering trips in Southwest Colorado, as well as international high altitude climbing and trekking expeditions in Mexico, Ecuador, and Argentina.
www.mtnguide.net |
TASP is our teammate for offering Alaska Adventures to people with disablities.
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Telluride Adaptive Sports Program
TASP has been an institution in the Telluride region since 1995. This non-profit organization provides ski instruction and year round outdoor therapeutic and adventure opportunities to people with disabilities. In 2009, we teamed up with TASP to run an "Alaska Adventure" trip that enabled disabled athletes to join us in the Alaska Range for ski mountaineering and glacier travel instruction. The trip was such a success that we ran two more such adventures in 2010 and will continue to offer this unique opportunity on a yearly basis.
www.tellurideadaptivesports.org
Read TASP staffer Silvie Fadrhonc's article on the TASP and Mountain Trip Alaska Adventure |
Climbing Equipment for the Extremes |
Forty Below
Forty Below® overboots are used on expeditions to the world’s highest and coldest places since 1973. Proven in 40 below and colder environments, these are the most trusted overboots in the world! Our mission is warm feet and happy toes! Joel Attaway is a long-time friend of ours and a connoisseur of cold places. If you have any fit questions, or want information on how to keep your beer cold, call Joel! If you visit his site, be sure to read Todd’s guide tip on using “pee bottles” in cold environments under this link.
www.40below.com |
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We hope you'll support these good folks!
Todd's personal, ongoing cause! Skills is a non-profit alternative school for children with Sensory Processing Disorder, located in Bayfield, CO. Heavy doses of Occupational Therapy and a low teacher:student ratio help kids regulate themselves in their daily environments. Todd's helping them with their website- more on this soon!
We are donating ALL PROCEEDS from our first Denali climb of the 2010 season to this school, as they are in desparate need of a new facility in order to continue serving the children of SW Colorado. Click HERE for more information on our Benefit Climb.
Paul and Denise Fejtek (Denali '07) are climbing Mount Everest with us in 2010 in an effort to climb the Seven Summits to raise funds for the Challenged Athletes Foundation.
Along with their efforts, the Everybody to Everest Team consisting of 25 trekkers are raising money for CAF as well & will meet up with them at Base Camp. Please visit the Everybody to Everest site HERE. To make a charitable donation to the CAF, please click HERE.
Our friend Ania Lichota (Denali '07, Vinson '09) is joining our 2010 Everest team to help raise funds for the United Nations Children's Fund. Please visit her website HERE for more information or click on the image above to make a donation to UNICEF.
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Hats off to our friends