Your dates . your people . any route
Private and custom trips.
A family who wants the whole hut. A design team that needs three days off the grid. A 40th birthday with a hot spring and a cake carried in a bear canister. We plan it with you and nobody else joins.
At a glance
How private pricing works
- Same day rates as the group trips, from $360 to $480
- Just two of you? The rate is x1.15. Solo is x1.6
- Six to ten of you get x0.9 on the day rate
- Custom routes are priced at the nearest trip's rate
- No planning fee if you book
per person$650 to $5,730
a 2 day Big Sur for ten, up to 7 days of overland solo with lodgesFour steps, pinned to the board.
Most private trips take two calls and about three weeks to plan. Permits are the slow part, so earlier is better.
- 01
A first call
Twenty minutes with a guide. Who is coming, what they have done, what the occasion is, what would make it perfect.
- 02
A sketch of the route
We send a hand drawn route with two date options, the day by day and a price from the same rates on this site.
- 03
Deposit and permits
A 25 percent deposit holds the dates. We file permits, book ferry seats or lodges and plan meals around allergies.
- 04
The packing call
Two weeks out we go over gear, fitness and the weather. You get a printed trip card for everyone in the group.
Trips we have built before.
- A three generation family on the Eastern Sierra overland, with a lodge night for grandma
- An eight person engineering team on a two day Big Sur coast backpack, phones in a dry bag
- A 40th birthday on the Sierra hut to hut, with the cake carried up by Ash
- A father and two teens on the Channel Islands kayak camp
- A custom fall loop linking two hot springs and a ghost town
gift trips come with a printed postcard
Ready to start? Send the basics on the trip desk form and pick "Private group" or "Custom trip".