Your Guide-Instructor

Our guide operations are led by Kel Rossiter.  Kel is passionate about mountain sports and he is committed to sharing that enthusiasm with others through effective guiding and instruction.  He is both a skilled teacher and lifelong learner, one of fewer than 200 American guides who have acheived International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA) Mountain Guide Certification, and the only one with a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership. You will be working with Kel from start to finish in crafting your adventure experience. With many guide services, you work with random office staff to develop your adventure and then discover who your guide is the morning the whole thing begins. This is not the case here. In developing your experience, you will be working directly with a person who has detailed knowledge of the landscape and the activities, and you will be building a relationship along the way. This is vital in developing the trust and mutual understanding adventure environments demand. By crafting your experience directly with Kel, together you will build a customized, personalized adventure specifically tailored to your interests and aspirations. The result is a safer, more enjoyable, and more rewarding time in the mountains.

For select larger-group events, Adventure Spirit draws on a talented pool of guide-instructors with extensive personal and professional leadership experience in climbing.  More importantly, each is an accomplished instructor.  Combining these climbing and instructional skills, we work as a team to create adventures of the highest caliber.