Big Wild Adventures -  Guided Wilderness Backpacking
 

Backpacking adventure vacations in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Alaska

Custom & Family Backpacking Trips

CUSTOM AND FAMILY TRIPS are built around your personal or group interests. Here is a personalized guided wilderness experience for individuals, groups, or families. We arrange the trip dates and location to suit your needs. We are glad to run Custom/Family trips in virtually any remote and wild corner of North America. In other words, feel free to fantasize about your ultimate dream trip...and we will arrange and run it for you!

Whether your interest is nature study, wildlife photography, fishing, scrambling to high summits, wilderness survival, navigation, relaxation, or perhaps an exceptionally rigorous expedition, Big Wild can provide you with the ultimate backpacking adventure.

CUSTOM TRIP PRICES, 2009
1 person: $600 /day 4 people: $1,300 / day 7 people: $1,800 / day
2 people: $800 / day 5 people: $1,500 / day 8 people: $1,900 / day
3 people: $1,100 / day 6 people: $1,700 / day  
     
FAMILY TRIPS (for adults with children 18 and under)
2 people: $700 / day 5 people: $1,300 / day 7 people: $1,500 / day
3 people: $1000 / day 6 people: $1,400 / day 8 people: $1,600 / day
4 people: $1,200 / day    

Please note that there may be an extra charge for custom and family trips outside Montana and Wyoming. Custom and family trips can be as rigorous or relaxed as you like, and can be nearly anywhere in North America. Depending upon your needs, interests, and schedule, we will be happy to suggest specific areas and routes that we believe would provide a wonderfully satisfying and unforgettable adventure! Our minimum charge for custom and family trips is for 4 days.

Scheduled Trips 2009
Below, we've listed our trips by region. Trips listed under Yellowstone Backpacking are also listed under the state in which they occur. You'll find complete information on each trip by clicking on the regional heading above each section.

For a chronological list of our adventures, click here.

Yellowstone Backpacking
Northern Yellowstone Wildlife and Wildflower Extravaganza: June 15-20.
Northeast Yellowstone's Wolf Country:
June 29-July 3.
Yellowstone's High, Wide & Wild Gallatin Range: July 19-24.
Yellowstone's Remote Corner Through Hike: August 12-21.
Southwest Yellowstone's Wild Waterfall Wonderland: September 13-19.
   
Montana Backpacking
Northern Yellowstone Wildlife and Wildflower Extravaganza: June 15-20.
Glacier Park's Wild Sister, The Rocky Mountain Front: July 5-11.
Yellowstone's High, Wide & Wild Gallatin Range: July 19-24.
Peaks and Lakes of the Rugged Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness: July 13-17.
Montana’s Rooftop—The Mighty Beartooths: August 2-7.
   
Wyoming Backpacking
Northeast Yellowstone's Wolf Country:
June 29-July 3.
Grand Tetons Alpine Magic:
August 3-7.
Yellowstone's Remote Corner Through Hike: August 12-21.
Big Vistas of the Wild Absarokas:
August 24-29.
Southwest Yellowstone's Wild Waterfall Wonderland: September 13-19.
   
Arizona Backpacking
The Grand Canyon, Rocks of the Ages: October 18-24.
   
California Backpacking
High Mountains of Death Valley National Park: April 5-12.
   
Utah Backpacking
Redrock Canyons of the Wild Escalante:
Spring 2010.
Grand Staircase Backcountry, Canyon and Mesa Magic: Spring 2010.
   
New Mexico Backpacking
Gila Wilderness, Big Pine Country: April 19-25.
Gila Wilderness High Peaks Special: October 4-10.
   
Alaska Backpacking
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, The Biggest Wild: June 3-11.
   
Montana Canoe Trips
Canoeing the Upper Missouri River, Lewis and Clark's Wilderness: May 10-17.
   
Florida Canoe Trips
Watery Wilds of the Living Everglades: Feb 7-14, 2010.

NOTE: Our Death Valley and Gila wilderness trips are offered only in odd numbered years. In even numbered years, our spring backpack trips are the Escalante Canyons and Grand Staircase backcountry areas of southern Utah.

List prices include our complete gear package and there is a $200 discount if you bring your own (see equipment list and/or questionnaire for details). Also, we offer a $100 discount for the second trip in a calendar year. Scheduled trips are for persons ages 16 and over. Exceptions to the age requirement will be made by us on a case-by-case basis.

 Big Wild Adventures • 222 Tom Miner Creek Road • Emigrant, Montana 59027
 (406) 848-7000 • Email: info@bigwildadventures.com