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Offering courses, climbs, and ski experiences for over 40 years in the US and internationally.

11/03/2026

California Mountain Guides Blog: Second in an eight-part series on avalanche education, Caleb writes about weather as the constant variable: how it affects snowpack temperature, how heavy new snow falls and where, how su... https://f.mtr.cool/kkycp10vxq

11/01/2026

Our team is in Nepal. Today the trek begins.

Tim Keating and Jim Weeg are starting up the Khumbu Valley with our guests, through Sherpa villages, past monasteries, all the way to 17,600 feet at Everest Base Camp.

This week has not been a normal lead-up. A hard storm swept the Khumbu, with deep snow and days of grounded flights, and a fire destroyed the Good Luck Hotel in Dingboche, one of the valley's older lodges. Everyone got out safely. Our guests and guides are in Nepal and adjusting to all of it, the way you do in the mountains.

We are starting the trek, and we have been planning for the possibility of having to adjust the trek in some ways along the way. Fourteen days on the classic. It is always an adventure. This one is surely going to be a unique one.

We will share what we can from the trail.

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween from the mountains.

Out here the scariest sound isn't a creaking door. It's a headlamp flickering with three hours of ridge still to go.

Check your knots, trust your partner, and save us some candy.

10/30/2026

Every single-day ski trip we run is custom, and every one is private. That is the whole model.

You pick the date. You pick the objective, or we pick it together based on the snow. One guide, your group, nobody else's agenda. Bear Valley sidecountry, Mt. Shasta day tours, ski mountaineering instruction, December through May.

Your day, your pace, your line.

https://californiaskiguides.com/day-ski-board-tours/

10/28/2026

December is almost here, and our Level 1 courses start with it.

Three days at Mt. Shasta or Bear Valley. Terrain, snowpack, and decision-making in small groups, with an instructor next to you when you make the call.

This is the winter you learn to read the snow.

https://swsmtns.com/avalanche-level-1-course/

10/27/2026

California Mountain Guides Blog: In this article, David highlights some of the wildlife found around Mt. Shasta. Many animals and plant species call the land around Shasta home. https://f.mtr.cool/x03qpuss84

10/26/2026

Thinking about making the mountains your work? The Pro 1 is where that starts.

Our Pro 1 Avalanche Course on Mt. Shasta taught in partnership with the American Avalanche Institute is five days of professional-level training: daily ops meetings, field data, hazard evaluation, and terrain management alongside instructors from both SWS and AAI. It's pass/fail, and it's the real thing.

Booking runs through AAI, linked right from our course page:

https://swsmtns.com/pro-1-avalanche-course/

10/24/2026

Thinking about leaving the resort this season? Good instinct. Now do it with someone who'll teach you efficient skinning, kick turns, reading terrain, and knowing when the snow says no.

Our intro backcountry clinics are the on-ramp. No ego, no hazing. Just skills and good days.

The first step out the gate is the hardest. We'll make the second one easier.

https://swsmtns.com

10/22/2026

Level 1 teaches you the vocabulary. Level 2 teaches you to think in it.

Three days on snowpack, weather, terrain, and the human factors — the part where smart, experienced people still get it wrong. For backcountry travelers ready to make the calls, not just follow them.

Small ratios. Honest feedback. Big terrain.

https://swsmtns.com/avalanche-level-2-course/

10/22/2026

Well done all who helped on this one! We’re so happy to see a positive outcome from what could’ve turned out very differently.
Thank you all the responders who so willingly helped the individual who so desperately needed it!

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110 Alpine Street
Mount Shasta, CA
96067

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm
Saturday	8am - 6pm
Sunday	8am - 6pm

Telephone

+18887976867

Website

http://www.swsmtns.com/, http://www.swsmountainguides.com/

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