Arc’teryx Trips help you experience remote and magical outdoor playgrounds while honing technical skills.
Pull out your credit card now if you want to be one of the first to travel with Arc’teryx on its just-announced, immersive travel experiences: Arc’teryx Trips. Sign up, and you’ll build technical expertise in the sport of your choice in a stunning location. And you’ll join elite-level guides, instructors, and like-minded adventurers.
In 2020, Arc’teryx will run 11 small group trips to 10 locations, from Canada’s Chilcotins to Corsica. And if these bespoke trips are anywhere near as popular as Arc’teryx’s Academies, they will sell out before you finish reading this story.
Arc’teryx Trips
With Trips, Arc’teryx plans to fill what it sees as an unserved niche in branded adventure travel. Where REI and Butterfield & Robinson’s excursions cater to adventurous beginners and affluent explorers, Arc’teryx Trips will cater to intermediate to advanced participants in the sports for which Arc’teryx makes gear.
Jurgen Watts, Arc’teryx senior manager of brand partnerships and spokesperson for Arc’teryx Trips, said the idea for Trips came from an ongoing conversation about how to enhance consumers’ positive experiences with the brand. With the company’s well-established guide relationships in adventure epicenters around the world, pairing the two made sense, he told us.
“We’ve asked our guides to take the muffler off,” Watts said. “Our guides have been asked to teach the whole time and to let people absorb as they can. We want people to come away feeling that they’ve learned a ton. That will be a win for us.”
Arc’teryx Trips: Guides, Locations, Cost
So, customers save the time and effort it would take to plan a trip. And they won’t have to stress about being guided by a surly, cigarette-smoking Chamonix local berating them up Cosmiques Arête.
Instead, Arc’teryx hand-selects IFMGA-certified guides and brand athletes in curated locations. In the Chilcotins, for example, runners fly to a remote lake in a floatplane to start the trip. Meanwhile, Wind River alpine climbers horse pack to base camp. And in Chamonix, rock climbers stay in a private alpine hut and have a one-on-one guided experience unique to their skill set.
All Trips will have four to 12 guests, and costs range from $2,300 to $7,600. That does not include travel or all the gear. Because these are intermediate-to-advanced treks, Arc’teryx leans on travelers to have some of their own trusted equipment, like harnesses, shoes, and helmets.
Arc'teryx Trips
- Italy: Climb Dolomites, June 21-27, 2020
- Canada: Climb Ghost River, June 21-27, 2020
- Canada: Trail run Chilcotins, July 16-18, 2020
- France: Mountaineer Chamonix, July 19-26, 2020
- Canada: Trail run Chilcotins (women only), July 19-21, 2020
- Wyoming: Mountaineer Grand Tetons (women only), July 31 to August 5, 2020
- Wyoming: Climb Wind River, August 21-28, 2020
- Wyoming: Trail run Titcomb Basin, August 29 to September 3, 2020
- Switzerland: Trail run Matterhorn to Grindelwald, September 2-10, 2020
- France: Trail run Corsica, September 4-12, 2020
- Canada: Hike Tombstone Range (TBD)
- Book private trip (TBD)