Current Contract Openings

Lead Guide:

Responsible for client/hunter management, ensuring clients are fed, watered, and comfortable, with good expectations and moral. To motivate hunter and ensure they are where they need to be, when they need to be to ensure success (hunter wakes early enough to get to stand, gets to bed early enough to be rested, do not overwork hunter early so that they burn out, that they hunt hard enough throughout to ensure success). Ensure vehicles are properly maintained in good order to mitigate the effect of breakdowns. Make daily hunt plans with respect to weather, hunter ability, and ground conditions. To guide 1 to 2 hunters throughout the hunting area, calling, tracking and processing of game. Must be able to skin and cape with a high degree of quality.

Guide\Scout:

Take direction from a lead guide to ensure hunter success. You will be tasked with picking up and dropping off clients from stands, calling for hunters, processing and tracking downed game, supply runs, repairs and maintenance of equipment, camp set up and tear down, checking cameras and collection of firewood, and many other tasks ensuring the hunt goes smoothly. Your key role is to ensure the lead guides plan is executed successfully.

Camp Attendant:

Ensure the camp is not overwhelmed by wind, rain, snow or bears. Camp attendants will also ensure that meals are ready for late arriving guides, coffee is ready in the morning, and that there is sufficient firewood available for stoves. Your core responsibility is to ensure that guides can be guiding, not performing logistical or administrative tasks while in basecamps. Additional pay will be given to attendants who are able to assist in the maintenance and repair of vehicles, or act as a cook in camp.

Content Creation:

Contract to provide videography and editing services, creating quality digital assests for use in promotion, advertising, and documentation.

 

Northern Zone Guiding (Ft. McMurray/Wabasca)

Argo/Float plane Moose Hunts 22 Sept to 07 October:

Roles Available

  • Lead Guide, and

  • Guide/Scout or

  • Camp Attendant

14 to 18 day contract providing services in Northern Alberta. Mobilization will be either completed by floatplane or Argo depending on the specific logistical requirements of hunt. Hunt will stage out of Ft. McMurray. Camp is situated near a small lake, hunts will be done on a combination of canoe and Argo, with 2 to 8km of walking daily.

Equipment Rental Opportunities

(Additional rates paid for equipment you provide to LO)

  • Argo,

  • ATV,

  • Chainsaw

  • Truck

  • Starlink

    Rates will vary depending on equipment condition and quality.

Rates :

shall be negotiated case by case, depending on role, experience, equipment package, and mentoring needed.

Guide/Scout: $150 to $250

Lead Guide: $275 to $500

Restrictions:

Max personal weight of 250lbs.

Contractors are required to provide all of their own personal equipment.

 
 

Mountain Zone Guiding Opportunities

Early Season archery Mule Deer Hunt

Aug 23 - Sept 03

Room for two contractors to operate as a guide or helper on a High Country Mule Deer Hunt, in the opening week. 10 hunting days, 4 setup and scouting days,

As Lead Guide you will be responsible for daily hunt plans, daily pattern of life, and working with your hunter to set up spike camps. You will plan stalks, movement, and glass, while managing your hunters moral, physical limitations and endurance.

These hunts are backcountry mountain hunts, and require guides who are physically fit, appreciate hiking and the difficult nature of the terrain.

Days are alternately spent hiking to new basins, and glassing.

Equipment Rental Opportunities: Truck, ATV

Requirements: Spotting scope, binos, quality backpack hunting gear. Sheep hunting experience an asset, lead guides must have experience planning routes and stalks in mountainous terrain.

Late Season Mule Deer Hunt, November

Room for a contractor to operate as a guide or helper (scout) on a High Country Mule Deer Hunt in the month of November. Exact dates to be determined by hunter and guide availability. There are 2 hunt opportunities in November waiting for guide commitments.

As a Lead Guide you will be responsible for daily hunt plans, daily pattern of life, along with working with your hunter to set up spike camps and prepare meals. You will plan stalks, movement, and glassing, while managing your hunters moral, physical limitations and endurance. Scouts will be tasked as needed scouting, glassing, packing, and building.

These hunts are backcountry mountain hunts, and require contractors who are physically fit, have good knees and backs, appreciate hiking and the difficult nature of the terrain.

Days are alternately spent hiking to new basins, and glassing.

Equipment Rental Opportunities: Truck, 4x4 ATV

Requirements: Spotting scope, bino, Previous LATE SEASON high-country hunting experience is necessary for lead guides (early season high country experience like a sheep opener is not relevant). Must have experience planning routes and stalks on snow covered slopes, and working in backcountry environments in -20C. Scouts require any high-country exp.