Hi, I'm Colton
I believe spending time outdoors can help us grow, heal and learn. It's somewhere we can connect to and ground us. It's a place with real risk and consequences but it's where I've had the most fun in my life. I want to share my passion for the outdoors with others.
I grew up in Canada and was lucky enough to get involved in programs and meet people who gave me the tools to access nature. Through personal experience and learning at school, I know the incredible healing and transformative benefits nature can have for healing people, as well as the learning opportunities that nature can provide. I want to share my passion using clinically backed- approaches to help people learn, grow and heal through the great outdoors.
About me
Theory
Studied different academically proven ways of healing and facilitating programs effectively
Experience
Range of experience working different types of guiding across Canada
Passion
Invested in promoting safe outdoor recreation through extra curricular activities
What Makes Me Unique
Highlights of past adventures
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Backpacking and Koh Tao
Oct 2022 - May 2023
After graduating from university I felt that I needed to expand my worldview and really see different perspectives. I settled on Southeast Asia as a general area and travelled through South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Bali, Thailand and Vietnam. The backpacking started in October and ended in Mid December. Travelling through these countries really opened my eyes to how lucky I am and taught me how grateful I should be for what I have. After that, I moved to Koh Tao, Thailand where I got hired as head rock climbing instructor at Goodtime Adventures.
Glory'ole cave trip
Aug 22 - 25 2020
This multi-day underground caving trip was my final cave trip of the summer of 2020 before I went back to school. It took a lot of logistical planning and training hard skills to prepare for the technical aid climbing required. The longest climb of this trip was a section of the cave called ‘Reality Check’ which was over 10 pitches long. After this, we got to our base camp which is where we would go to sleep for the following nights. Our crew of 6 camped on a bed of soft sand where the crew dug out small pits to put our sleeping bags in. I drilled 2 holes to put in temporary cams to hook in the hammock I brought. For the next days, we split up into smaller teams to tackle different projects like surveying new parts of the cave or bolting up a new line of a potential lead. When we finally hiked out everyone was exhausted and feeling the warm sun on my face and changing into clean clothes was one of the most refreshing feelings I can remember.
Canmore, Alberta
June 04, 2022
This picture is from a canyon in Bow Valley, Canmore. I started canyoneering in the summer of 2020, and it quickly became my favourite leisure activity. It brings some of the adrenaline of rock climbing with the exploration aspect of caving or scuba and it has its own aspect of play. I don’t know of any other activity that brings such a pure childlike sense of play into people's life. Between the rappelling, sliding or cliff jumps into deep water it makes for a full day of fun.
Ice Climbing,
Jan 17,2021
Thunder Bay is at the northern tip of Lake Superior and I lived there for 5 years. This small city has some of the most amazing access to outdoor recreation that I have ever witnessed. Incredible biking, surfing, camping, hiking, rock climbing and incredible, towering frozen waterfalls in the winter. I learned how to ice climbing in Thunder Bay and spent a lot of my winters going out to practice my technique, I eventually got to know the different areas so well I got hired as an assistant instructor to help guide the students at Lakehead University to go ice climbing. The ice climb on the right is the first-ever WI3+ that I lead climbed.
Pukaskwa Ontario
May 13 - 29th, 2022
Pukasaw national park is a 1,878 km² park on Lake Superior. In the final year of my university degree in Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism my group and I had the opportunity to fully plan a 1-week trip in the wilderness down the Pukaskwa river which is filled with white water. We would be using tandem canoes to cover the majority of the distance including class 3 rapids and higher but we would not attempt the class 4 and above rapids. The logistics of planning this trip were challenging as we also had to plan training days to learn all the white water maneuvering and rescue skills that we needed not to mention we had to be very precise in what food we brought and how much because we had plenty of overgrown portages to complete including one that was nearly 3km which needed to be done at least 3 times per person but we obviously also didn’t want to under pack. Overall, I learned a lot about expedition planning, logistics and leadership.
Star Chek, BC
Aug 11, 2018
Star Chek is a classic 3 pitch climb in Squamish and was my very first multi-pitch. Fun fact I actually forgot my shoes the first time I completed it and had to do it barefoot, ever sense that experience I have been very diligent about checking a gear list before going out on big adventures I added this as one of my key highlights because it opened my eyes to the places climbing can take you and how free it can make you feel. I return to Star Chek once a summer and bring a new climber to give back the same experience that changed my life.
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