Your Goals, Your Adventure

The American Alpine Institute offers private trips, courses, and custom expeditions designed around your goals. Climb, ski, or trek on your schedule with IFMGA- and AMGA-trained guides. We build personalized programs for rock climbing, alpine mountaineering, backcountry skiing, ice climbing, glacier travel, backpacking, and beyond.

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Private Pricing

Pricing for private instructional courses is location and ratio-dependent. Following is a breakdown of major program locations and the inclusions and exclusions found in each location.

Washington

Day Trips or Multi-Day with No Group Camping

• 1 participant to 1 guide: $705 per day
• 2 participants to 1 guide: $510 per person per day
• 3 participants to 1 guide: $380 per person per day
• 4 participants to 1 guide: $345 per person per day
• 5 participants to 1 guide: $320 per person per day

Multi-Day Trips with Overnight Group Camping

• 1 participant to 1 guide: $780 per day
• 2 participants to 1 guide: $545 per person per day
• 3 participants to 1 guide: $420 per person per day
• 4 participants to 1 guide: $380 per person per day
• 5 participants to 1 guide: $330 per person per day

Participants in private programs in Washington are responsible for providing transportation for themselves and the instructor from our offices to the climbing venue/trailhead and back.

Two exceptions to our private pricing include a private 3-day skills and ascent of Mt. Baker and a 3 or 4-day skills and ascent of Mt. Shuksan’s Sulphide Glacier route. Once these private trips exceed 2 people, the price defaults to the public rate per person as posted on the Mt. Baker Skills and Climb and Shuksan Skills and Climb program pages. 

Sierra Nevada, CA
Squamish & Bugaboos, BC

Day Trips or Multi-Day with No Group Camping

• 1 participant to 1 guide: $645 per day
• 2 participants to 1 guide: $465 per person per day
• 3 participants to 1 guide: $345 per person per day
• 4 participants to 1 guide: $315 per person per day
• 5 participants to 1 guide: $290 per person per day

Multi-Day Trips with Overnight Group Camping

• 1 participant to 1 guide: $715 per day
• 2 participants to 1 guide: $500 per person per day
• 3 participants to 1 guide: $385 per person per day
• 4 participants to 1 guide: $345 per person per day
• 5 participants to 1 guide: $300 per person per day

Participants in private programs in  BC are responsible for providing transportation for themselves and the instructor from our offices to the climbing venue/trailhead and back.

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Joshua Tree, CA
Red rock Canyon, NV
Moab, UT
Boulder, CO

Half-Day

• 1 participant to 1 guide: $425 per day
• 2 participants to 1 guide: $245 per person per day
• 3 participants to 1 guide: $190 per person per day
• 4 participants to 1 guide: $175 per person per day
• 5 participants to 1 guide: $155 per person per day
• 6 participants to 1 guide: $135 per person per day

Full-Day

• 1 participant to 1 guide: $475 per day
• 2 participants to 1 guide: $325 per person per day
• 3 participants to 1 guide: $250 per person per day
• 4 participants to 1 guide: $225 per person per day
• 5 participants to 1 guide: $200 per person per day
• 6 participants to 1 guide: $175 per person per day

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Ouray Ice Park and Ouray Ranger District

Full-Day

• 1 climber to 1 guide: $595 per day
• 2 climbers to 1 guide: $425 per person per day
• 3 climbers to 1 guide: $315 per person per day
• 4 climbers to 1 guide: $285 per person per day

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Alaska Range and Wrangell-St. Elias Range

Day Rates

• 1 climber to 1 guide: $1100 Per Day
• 2 climbers to 1 guide: $895 Per Person Per Day
• 3 climbers to 1 guide: $695 Per Person Per Day

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Program areas in North America

• Alaska Range, Alaska
• Wrangell-St. Elias Range, Alaska
• Squamish, British Columbia
• Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia
• North Cascades, Washington (including on iconic peaks like Mt. Baker, Mt. Shuksan, Forbidden Peak, and Mt. Stuart)
• Washington State Rock (including Larabee State Park, Washington Pass, Mazama, Mt. Erie, Banks Lake, Peshastan Pinnacles, Leavenworth, Exit 38, Frenchman Coulee, and Beacon Rock)
• Southern Washington Volcanoes (including Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens)
• Eastern Sierra, California
• Joshua Tree National Park, California
• Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada
• Moab, Utah
• Indian Creek, Utah
• Ouray Ranger District, Colorado (including the Ouray Ice Park, Camp Bird Road, and Red Mountain Pass)

NOTE: AAI offers programming all over the world. If you are interested in setting up a private program outside North America, please contact the AAI office at 360–671-1505 for details.

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