Scheduling Your Adventure

Reserving Your Dates

Please contact us to discuss your adventure objectives and scheduling.  Your dates are reserved once we receive a non-refundable 30% of the total adventure costs (or the full costs if your adventure is less than 30 days away).  Payment can be made via:

  • Paypal transfer to tkrossiter@[remove this text]yahoo.com .  If paying via this method, please click on the "Personal" tab and then select the "Payment owed" option, as this eliminates transfer fees. 
  • Check payable to "Adventure Spirit LLC" mailed to: 83A North Champlain Street, Burlington, VT 05401
  • Please review our Cancellation & Change Policy listed below
  • Please also review the Declaration of Fitness and Release & Assumption forms links appearing below

Pricing Options

  • 1 person: $240
  • 2 people: $170 per
  • 3 people: $150 per
  • 4 people: $135 per

Additional Pricing Options

  • Weekdays—We are currently offering special pricing discounts for weekday bookings.  Discounts vary according to the dates, duration, and group size.  Please contact us for more information. 
  • Half-days—Rates can be arranged as well—contact us for details.
  • Large Groups—For larger group adventure options (more than 4 people), please contact us to discuss your adventure aspirations and the options and pricing available. 
  • Longer/Custom Trips—Pricing for our multi-day trip offerings such as the Winter Presidential Traverse or Mexican Volcano Mountaineering can be found on the pages describing each trip.  And if you have a specific multi-day objective in mind, contact us to discuss pricing options.

About Guide Pricing

Exploring the web, you’ll find a range of prices offered for guided climbing days.  In making your comparisons, it is important for you to consider the whole range of variables that go into the final pricing—and the final experience.  When comparing pricing, among the many questions to consider are:

  • How much communication will your guide service provide in helping you to best prepare for your adventure?  We pride ourselves on being there as your guide throughout the entire adventure process, from preparation, to the event, to moving onward and upward after that!
  • Will you be communicating with office staff or an actual guide?  When you contact us, you'll be speaking directly with a guide who works in the field full-time and is familiar with the particulars of your adventure, and can help you best prepare for it. 
  • Are there surcharges for longer days/overnights?  Many companies tack on fees for longer days, such as Huntington Ravine climbing or add a charge if the event includes an overnight.  We keep it simple—when you hire us for a day, we're working with you for the whole time.
  • Are there surcharges for specific destinations?  Again, many companies tack on fees for locales such as Lake Willoughby ice climbing or Mt. Washington climbing.  We keep it simple. 
  • What equipment is included as a part of your adventure?  All necessary hardware is included in your adventure with us.
  • What are the teaching and leadership qualifications of your guides?  Our guides are as passionate about climbing as they are about sharing climbing with others.  They have worked to not only advance their climbing skills, but to develop their instructional abilities so as to advance your climbing skills.   

Taking into account these and other factors, we believe you’ll find Adventure Spirit to be the optimal value.  If you have any questions regarding what sets our services above the rest in terms of performance and pricing, please contact us to learn about the Adventure Spirit edge.

Equipment

We have an inventory of helmets, harnesses, rock shoes, boots, and avalanche transceivers for your use, dependent upon the particular adventure.  For larger groups where there are boot sizes that overlap or for exceptionally large or small sizes, it may be necessary to rent additional boots—contact us to discuss those options.    

You will need to bring clothing and personal equipment suitable for the particular adventure you're on.  A useful sheet for planning any winter ice or alpine events can be found here.  A useful sheet for planning any winter overnight events can be found here.  Please contact us if you have any questions—we pride ourselves on being there as your guide throughout the entire adventure process, from preparation, to the event, to moving onward and upward after that!

Cancellation & Change Policy

Our cancellation and change policy helps our guides with job security.  Guides with job security are able to make a career out of it, and hence, excel at it.  With that in mind, Adventure Spirit maintains the following cancellation and change policies.

General

  • A 30% non-refundable deposit secures your adventure dates.
  • Full payment is requested no later than 30 days before your adventure.

Weather Cancellation & Changes

As you probably know, the weather in the Northeast can be fickle.  As the saying goes, "There typically is no such thing as bad weather, only bad preparation," and we will assist you in being prepared for the weather and activities of the day.  If our guides determine that it is unreasonable to continue with your chosen adventure based on current or forecasted weather (and avalanche conditions in some cases), they will attempt to contact you as quickly as possible to present and discuss suitable alternative adventure objectives.  If the weather is clearly deteriorating and we must cancel the day's activities, you can reschedule your adventure for up to one year from the original date planned.

Personal Cancellations & Changes

We maintain the following policies for personal cancellations:

  • For cancellations made more than two weeks from the adventure start date, 30% of the adventure fee is non-refundable and the remainder will be issued as adventure credit valid for one year.
  • For cancellations made less than two weeks from the adventure start date, 50% of the adventure fee in non-refundable and the remainder will be issued as adventure credit valid for one year.
  • For cancellations made less than one week from the adventure start date, there are no refunds or credit given.

We strongly encourage everyone to consider purchasing travel insurance.  Click here for a link to one company we've used in the past. 

Fitness & Liability/Release Forms

For all of our rock, ice, and alpine adventures, please link to the documents below and review them before our adventure.  Bringing signed copies to the event will help to maximize our climbing day.  These forms are required by our insurance company and these forms help us in together creating a positive and safe experience.  If you have any particular questions or concerns regarding your health and fitness and the particular adventure in which you plan to participate, please let us know.