Our guides are all certified Wilderness First Responders.
Wilderness First Responder is a 76-hour Wilderness First Responder (WFR) training program, which exceeds the current guidelines of the Wilderness Medical Society for a Wilderness First Responder Curriculum. Course participants will be trained to manage injuries and medical emergencies in wilderness situations, or in developing countries, any time or anywhere that back-up resources aren’t readily available, where you’re hours, or days from help, where environmental extremes – heat, cold, altitude pose a threat to rescuers as well as the victim, when you’ve got to improvise – make do- with what’s at hand, and where medical evacuation is either arduous, or simply not an option. This training is the most effective emergency medical training available in the world today.
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- contribute to the protection of the natural environment,
- preserve the cultural heritage,
- and bring direct economic benefits to local communities.
Our bilingual naturalist guides are all native residents. They lead small groups of 14 or less travelers on well-designed yet flexible itineraries with expert natural history interpretation. They proudly share their personal insights into their culture and community.
Trained by field scientists, the lead guides have a distinct advantage as life time residents in addition to the long term employment of more than 11 years with Canyon Travel. The combination of these experiences has enabled the lead guides with outstanding interpretive abilities and the most extensive field knowledge.
They are also warm and gracious individuals, delighted at introducing travelers to their families and to other community members, visiting their homes and sharing enriching cultural exchanges that unfold naturally.
Travelers may observe culturally sensitive presentations of ceremonial dances and music, pottery firings, fields being cultivated with plows fashioned from oak limbs, corn grinding on stone metates and they may sample delicious corn tortillas hot off the grill. Canyon Travel’s lodge partnerships with local communities bestow travelers with invitations to traditional ceremonies, community gatherings or to attend just about any festivity including children’s birthday parties. The guides dine with travelers, in a congenial breaking of bread, and if there isn’t a festivity to attend perhaps they’ll make their own around a bonfire with guitars and under starlit skies.
