Southwest Backpacking Adventures

Four Season Guides

Backpacking Your Way Through Adventures

Wilderness Wonders

Join Four Season Guides for the backpacking adventures of a lifetime. Our backpacking tours will take you to some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. Enjoy the well known Rim to Rim Backpacking adventure through Grand Canyon, or get off the beaten path and explore the Canyons of the Escalante in Southern Utah or Yosemite National Park. We provide all the necessary gear and our friendly, professional guides will handle all the dirty work leaving you more time to fully enjoy your surroundings. Backpacking is our specialty, and our guides have explored thousands of miles of trails and routes in the canyons, mesas and mountains of the Southwest. And with many of our guides having been with us for a decade or more, you can be sure you are traveling with the most experienced folks in the business!

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Select a Backpacking Trip for your Next Adventure

Discovering The Wild

Rim to Rim Backpacking Tour
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance: 24 miles
Starting At $2,395
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Half Dome 3-Day Backpacking Tour
  • Duration: 3 Days / 2 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 5/10
  • Distance: 18 miles
Starting At $1,675
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Coyote Gulch Backpacking Tour
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 5/10
  • Distance: 25 miles
Starting At $2,025
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Hermit Loop 4-Day Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 7/10
  • Distance: 27 miles
Starting At $2,025
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Hermit Loop 5-Day Backpacking
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 7/10
  • Distance: 32 miles
Starting At $2,215
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Vogelsang Alpine Loop 4-Day Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance:~25 miles
Starting At $1,950
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Kanab Creek Wilderness Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 5/10
  • Distance: 25 miles
Starting At $1,950
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Deer Creek/Thunder River Loop Backpacking
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 9/10
  • Distance: 30 miles
Starting At $2,240
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Escalante Backcountry Traverse
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance:~ 35 miles
Starting At $2,075
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All-Women's Kanab Creek Wilderness Backpacking
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 5/10
  • Distance:~ 28 miles
Starting At $2,275
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Canyon Classic 3-Day Backpacking
  • Duration: 3 Days / 2 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance: 17 miles
Starting At $1,700
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Canyon Classic 4-Day Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance: 24 miles
Starting At $1,950
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Vogelsang Alpine Loop 5-Day Backpacking
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance: 38 miles
Starting At $2,250
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Red Peak Pass Loop Backpacking
  • Duration: 6 Days / 5 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 9/10
  • Distance: 48 miles
Starting At $2,350
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All-Women's Grandview Loop Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 7/10
  • Distance:~ 20 miles
Starting At $1,950
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Vogelsang to Half Dome Backpacking
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 7/10
  • Distance: 35 miles
Starting At $2,250
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Bears Ears Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance: 25 miles
Starting At $1,975
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Egypt & the Golden Cathedral Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 5/10
  • Distance: 25 miles
Starting At $2,025
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Grandview Loop Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 8/10
  • Distance: 27 miles
Starting At $1,950
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Winter Rim to Rim Backpacking
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 7/10
  • Distance: 45 miles
Starting At $2,315
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Half Dome 4-Day Backpacking Tour
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 5/10
  • Distance: 18 miles
Starting At $1,950
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Thousand Island Lake Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance: 2 miles
Starting At $1,975
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Havasupai Gardens Backpacking
  • Duration: 3 Days / 2 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 4/10
  • Distance: 16+ miles
Starting At $1,700
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Merced River Loop Backpacking
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance: 35 miles
Starting At $2,150
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Tuolumne Meadows & Waterfalls Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 3/10
  • Distance: 15 to 20 miles
Starting At $1,875
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Yosemite Falls & Snow Creek Backpacking
  • Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance:~25 miles
Starting At $1,895
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All-Women's Escalante Backcountry Traverse
  • Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
  • Trip Style: Backpacking
  • Difficulty: Level 6/10
  • Distance:~ 35 miles
Starting At $2,075
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Exceptional Guides

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Our guiding staff consists primarily of seasoned veterans who have been guiding professionally, full-time, for a decade or more. In addition to their extensive experience, our guides are fun, accommodating, approachable, entertaining, polite and just plain good people.

All-Inclusive Tours

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We’re at work, you’re on vacation! We take care of all the logistics associated with a backcountry adventure and handling all the dirty work. Gear, food, permits, transportation…we have you covered and it’s all included.

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The Southwestern U.S. is our home and our passion. We’ve been exploring this region for decades and know it intimately. This is our niche and nobody does it better.

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