Adventure with Aspen Expeditions’ Expert Guides
Aspen Expeditions is a four season, technical mountain guide service based in the heart of the magnificent Rocky Mountains in Aspen, Colorado, where we have been guiding and teaching rock, ice, ski & alpine mountaineering skills since 1977. With our ski town heritage, we specialize in worldwide adventure skiing from the deep snows of Hokkaido, Japan, the fjords of Iceland and Norway, remote Alaskan glaciers, famed European hut traverses to the jagged peaks of the Andes and classic South American volcanoes.
Summer
Unforgettable Summer Adventures Whether you have no experience or lots of experience, Aspen Expeditions has an amazing Summer season adventure for you! We offer privately guided custom mountain and gravel biking, hiking, backpacking, hut trips, rock…
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Winter
Winter Mountain Guiding Adventures If you are looking to ski on one of Aspen’s four ski areas, call the Aspen Skiing Company… If you are looking to do anything else outdoors in the winter, call…
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Expeditions
Unleash Your Passion for Adventure Aspen Expeditions has a long history of providing smaller privately guided, custom expeditions locally in Colorado and around the globe. It’s in our name after all. Operating in a world…
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“Fantastic lift assisted backcountry day with Nate. Very knowledgeable, timed the entire day to perfection and found some epic powder. Will definitely be back!”
— Timothy Fox
“I have done three climbs with AE, the Bells Traverse with Nate E, Capitol with Nate E, and Pyramid with Britt. I had a great time on all three trips and felt very safe the whole time. Would highly recommend!”
— Jeff Hughes
Popular Winter Adventures
All-Inclusive Braun Hut Trip
The Braun Hut System, just a few miles from Aspen, offers skiers and riders a backcountry escape deep into the heart of the Rocky Mountains Backcountry skiing up to one of the huts, where one…
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Lift-Accessed Backcountry Skiing
Aspen has some of the best lift-accessed backcountry skiing available in our country For many resort skiers and snowboarders, there is something decidedly romantic, wild west and even risque, perhaps, about riding a chairlift up…
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AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course
The AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course provides a complete introduction to the avalanche phenomenon, avalanche terrain, decision making, and rescue In a continental snowpack such as the Elk Mountains, AE’s customized instruction maximizes student learning…
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Trip Journal
Four Pass Loop Trip Report
The Four Pass Loop is an iconic 26-mile circumnavigation around the Maroon Bells that, as…
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Snowmass Mountain Trip Report
The Elk Mountains are home to some of the most aesthetic high peaks in Colorado….
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Mount Elbert via the Black Cloud Trail
Summiting the highest peak in Colorado, Mount Elbert, is no easy feat. Most people that…
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Japow: Japan Powder Skiing
Pow Pow, Japow!! Says Mako, our local Japanese certified ski guide, in his deep voice…
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