Feature  History  Bios  Events  Orgs  Gear  Photos  Forum  Quotes  Reads  Links  Home		This feature article was snagged from . Click here for the previous articles Why Hire a Guide? It’s hard to find time for everything. Although climbing, mountaineering, trekking and other adventures can be enjoyable from the very beginning, the development of competence, and especially of leadership skills, can take years to acquire when you struggle on your own. In the early days of mountaineering in this country, for example, serious participants sometimes dropped out of society, taking seasonal or temporary jobs to finance their passion. Most of us don’t have this degree of obsession, and fortunately we don't need to in order to be safe and have fun. A good guide facilitates fast learning, with less risk and waste of effort than going it alone. A well trained and experienced guide is a multi-purpose resource at all stages of development. Beginning, intermediate and even advanced level skills can be learned, practiced, refined or tested with the help of a professional. A good guide can help you to progress more efficiently and more safely, than you could do by "trial and error". This is especially important to those of us with a full time job, a profession, a family, or other interests! A guide is also a skilled, reliable and resourceful partner, especially for many who live far from where the sport is practiced.
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