Employment With International Alpine Guides
Looking for employment in the guiding and avalanche instruction world?
An experienced guide perhaps looking for a new opportunity?
Looking to grow with an International guiding company that has extensive experience running trips around the world?
International Alpine Guides offers opportunities to the newer and more experienced guides alike.
Domestically, we are one of California’s largest and most diverse mountain guiding companies with bases in:
Mammoth Lakes in the Eastern Sierra
Truckee in the North Lake Tahoe area
Mount Shasta (Spring & summer)
Our permitted terrain ranges from SPI rock guiding, to ski guiding, to complicated glaciated alpine guiding. We offer work in all disciplines and have large and vibrant programs in rock guiding, alpine guiding, ski guiding, backpacking and AIARE avalanche instruction. We are committed to the guiding profession as a viable career and are looking for committed mountain guides and instructors who feel the same.
IAG offers:
A very competitive pay scale tied to your level of AMGA and other professional training that in most cases exceeds national averages
An employer who values your work and backs that up by following and exceeding all California labor laws such as mileage reimbursement, employee (W4) status with workers comp & legal recognition of hours on overnight work assignments
Employment contracts with minimum guaranteed days
Continuing education benefits with direct financial help towards AMGA and other continuing education courses
Rental Assistance
End of season bonuses
Diverse guiding in the nations most diverse mountain terrain
Career path development with international guiding work and mentoring from IFMGA guides.
A fun and rewarding work environment with a top notch team of professionals
Please browse our current job postings below:
Posted 3/1/24
Now Hiring Part Time Office Assistant in the IAG Office!
Love talking to people about the Sierra’s, Yosemite, and beyond?
Come join the International Alpine Guides office team! Our Office Assistant is responsible for responding to trip inquiries on the phone and via email, booking our rock climbing, mountaineering, skiing, avalanche, and backpacking trips. They are also responsible for working with our Office Manager with pre trip logistics and any other office tasks at hand.
We are looking for someone who is excited about the trips we do, is comfortable talking on the phone, has strong writing, organizational and people skills! Office and sales experience highly recommended. Knowledge of Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra is extremely valuable!
IAG is a full-service international guide service offering trip discounts, rental reimbursement, pro deals, & yearly bonuses.
Starting salary: $23/ hr. Hours: 24-30 hrs a week (depending on the season) Wednesday-Saturday.
Join one of the largest mountain guiding companies in California!
Send inquires with a resume and cover letter why you want to join our team ATTN: Beth Jeffery to info@internationalalpineguides.com
We are currently hiring for the following guide positions for the upcoming Spring/Summer 2024 season & beyond:
Posted 1/2/24
International Alpine Guides is now accepting applications for backpacking guides to join our Summer 2024 team!
Do you love summer in Yosemite and the High Sierra’s? Are you an outdoor professional who is passionate about backpacking, making gourmet food under the painted Sierra sky, and sharing that adventure with others? Join the IAG Backpacking Team!
Backpacking guides typically work independently and will be responsible for all trip prep, planning, cooking, and safely guiding clients on our scheduled and private trips.
Requirements:
· Previous experience guiding or instructing in an outdoor environment.
· Previous experience in the areas we guide including: Mt Whitney, Yosemite and the JMT!
· Current WFR, CPR, & Ca Food Handler certification
· Familiarity with outdoor equipment including white gas stoves
· Impeccable backcountry cooking skills
· Ability to trip plan & navigate terrain without using social media or an app.
· Able to attend summer guides training at the beginning of May, and available to work June-September 2024.
International Alpine Guides is owner run and operated since 1978. We are Mammoth Lakes only full-service mountain guide company and one of the most established in California.
Compensation:
· Among some of the highest guiding wages in the industry for the best professional guides!
· All trip mileage
· Rental Assistance for Full Availability guides
· Uniforms
· Ability to join all technical guide trainings, and all domestic trips at no additional cost.
Is this you?
Send a cover letter and resume to Jessica Miller Jess@internationalalpineguides.com explaining why you want to work with us, and experience on the trails we guide.
Posted 10/10/23:
Eastern Sierra Based Ski, Rock & Alpine Guide - Year Round
We are looking for qualified guides to lead guests on ski tours, alpine rock routes as well as teach rock & mountaineering courses in the Sierra Nevada year round from this coming season from mid-Dec through mid-October. This is a full time 10 1/2 month position. AMGA ski, rock & alpine course or above required. WFR required of course. LNT training required (we can help provide this). 4 years professional experience working in avalanche terrain and a Professional Level 1 Avalanche course is a big plus.
We are looking for friendly, flexible and professional individuals who would love to spend the Spring/Summer season safely guiding our guests in the Eastern Sierra and High Sierra.
We offer a very competitive pay structure that includes:
Some of the highest pay in the industry: $285 to $425 per day depending on level of AMGA training/certification & assignment
Mileage
Benefits for continuing education in the guiding profession, such as help paying for AMGA courses
End of season Bonuses
Opportunity to guide on some of our other terrain such as Tahoe rock and Shasta Glaciers
Rental Assistance
If interested in this position shoot an email to Connor Chilcott at: Connor@internationalalpineguides.com
Posted 10/10/23:
Mount Shasta Guide - Late April through July or August 2024
We are looking for qualified guides to lead guests up basic alpine snow routes as well as ski descents on Mount Shasta for this coming season from Late April through either end of July or perhaps into August. This is a full time 3+ month position. AMGA alpine skills course or above preffered. WFR required of course. LNT training required (we can help provide this).
We are looking for friendly, flexible and professional individuals who would love to spend the Spring/Summer season safely guiding our guests on beautiful Mount Shasta. This is a perfect first alpine guiding job.
We offer a very competitive pay structure that includes:
Some of the highest pay in the industry: $310 to $425 per day (on overnight trips) depending on level of AMGA training/certification & assignment
Mileage
Benefits for continuing education in the guiding profession, such as help paying for AMGA courses
End of season Bonuses
Rental Assistance
If interested in this position shoot an email to Connor Chilcott at: Connor@internationalalpineguides.com
At International Alpine Guides we have a strong team of mountain professionals, but are always interested in talking to new faces about joining our team. We are, at times, looking for outdoor professionals who share a love for the mountain lifestyle and are avid climbers, skiers & backpacker/adventurers. We have different categories of guides including:
Alpine Guide
Ice Guide
Rock Climbing Guide
Ski Guide
AAI Avalanche Instructors (Professional level 1 + 4 years working in avalanche terrain.)
Backpacking Guide
We operate at the highest standards in the mountain guiding industry and require our lead guides to have specific training and experience depending on the type of activity and terrain they will be guiding. We believe in the AMGA standard of practice which is scheduled to be fully implemented in 2022 and we plan to require all our guides to be compliant with those standards by then. In the meantime, we do have certain standards as move towards the SOP. Please contact me for more information. We are also interested in bringing on new guides.
What we can offer is:
A very competitive pay scale
Educational benefits towards AMGA and other courses
Mentorship
A fun and rewarding work environment
If you are interested in joining our team shoot an email to: Connor@Internationalalpineguides.com
Dave Miller
Owner/Director
IFMGA lisenced mountain & ski guide
