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Colorado Backcountry

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Specializing in custom trips, we scale the day’s objectives to you. We offer a spectrum of activities from relaxing and scenic family outings, high-value skills clinics, adventurous day trips, and multi-day mountain traverses. Colorado Backcountry is Crested Butte’s only locally owned hiking, biking and skiing guide service. Owned by Ben and Janae Pritchett since 2006, Colorado Backcountry’s team of thoughtfully-selected and exceptional guides bring over 40 years of combined experience exploring the mountains around Crested Butte. After over a decade of teaching mountain bike skills camps all over the western U.S., Ben and Janae decided in 2015 to join forces with some of mountain biking’s best instructors to launch the Backcountry Bike Academy, a mountain biking school in Crested Butte dedicated to delivering the ultimate mountain bike skills clinics in the industry.  

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If you love to hike, there’s no better place for a guided adventure than the backcountry around Crested Butte. We believe in experiencing nature in small, private groups. You can expect plenty of people on the popular trails, but with our guides you can get away. Just you, your friends or family, and nature in all her glory.

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Few ski destinations offer such an amazing blend of amazing terrain, reliably soft snow, and incredible ski town culture. The backcountry around Crested Butte delivers time and time again. Join us for a day trip, a summit attempt, a private backcountry skills session, a hut trip, or AIARE avalanche training.

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Gunnison & Hartman Rocks Guided Mountain Biking

Hartman Rocks, near Gunnison, offers some of the most under-rated, highest-quality guided desert mountain biking in Colorado. Hiding amongst the granite boulders and sage brush you’ll discover over 50 miles of beautifully-maintained flowy trails laced with slickrock features. The vertical relief is modest, less than 1200 feet from the highest and lowest parts of the zone, so it’s a great place to acclimatize enroute to Crested Butte.

Crested Butte Guided Hiking

If you love to hike, there’s no better place for a guided adventure than the backcountry around Crested Butte. We believe in experiencing nature in small, private groups. You can expect plenty of people on the popular trails, but with our guides you can get away. Just you, your friends or family, and nature in all her glory.

Wildflower Tours

Crested Butte is Colorado Wildflower Capitol for good reason. Flowers bloom from April through August. Our team of naturalists can show the best bloom on any given day. Private tours range from gentle stroll to far-flung escapades along alpine ridges, and everything in between.

Explore The Crested Butte Backcountry

Few ski destinations offer such an amazing blend of amazing terrain, reliably soft snow, and incredible ski town culture. The backcountry around Crested Butte delivers time and time again. Join us for a day trip, a summit attempt, a private backcountry skills session, a hut trip, or AIARE avalanche training.

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Avalanche Safety
Backcountry/XC
Cycling & Mountain Biking
hiking
Skiing/Snowboarding

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info@coloradobc.com

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(970) 349-0800

https://coloradobc.com/

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