About White Mountain Adventures

We are an active travel and activity company with a strong commitment to learning about nature in the outdoors. Since 1987 we have been leading trips and running events which focus on nature and ecology and on gaining a better understanding of the world around us. All of our programs, including corporate team building events, embody this ethic and whereever possible we incorporate this into our programs. Our primary goal is to stimulate not only your body but also your mind... and to leave you with lifetime memories of your experiences.

White Mountain Adventures is accredited by the Mountain Parks Heritage Interpretation Association. The association recognizes those businesses that encourage excellence in the interpretation of nature, history and culture in Canada's Rocky Mountain national parks and surrounding areas.

About Our Company and Guides

Our base is the mountain town of Banff, Alberta inside Banff National Park. It is centrally located in the midst of some of North America's most majestic mountain ranges.

Most of our corporate events and programs take place in Bow Valley corridor which includes Banff, Lake Louise, Canmore, Kananaskis and Calgary, but any of the programs we offer here are also available in other locations. To visit our teambuilding and corporate event site click here.

Our hiking, walking, sightseeing and touring programs are available in Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho and Waterton National Parks, as well as numerous provincial parks in Alberta and British Columbia.

* Most national and provincial parks now require companies to be licensed and insured. White Mountain Adventures has permits for all of the areas we operate in.

Our trip leaders are the heart of White Mountain Adventures and each guide is selected based on their skills, knowledge and unique personal characteristics. All of our guides are local residents and when you join one of their trips you'll be on the inside track to all of the local flavor and culture. You'll benefit from their expert safety training, guiding and interpretation qualifications. White Mountain Adventures is also the area's leader in interpretive training. Our guides spend considerable amounts of their free time training with us and taking extra courses ranging from natural history to native culture. Our guides love to learn … and they love to share this with you.

For more information on our key staff, please see below.

White Mountain Adventures is proud to be the recipient of the following awards:

2003 Grand Prize Winner Heritage Excellence

2004 & 2005 Alberta Tourism Award Finalist for Sustainable Tourism

Gordon Stermann - President and General Manager

Owner and founder of White Mountain Adventures. In addition to being the chief bottle washer, Gord is active in the planning, operation and promotion of our multi-day adventures. He occasionally leads some of the active adventures and teambulding programs and is still our main recruit for trail maintenance at Sunshine Meadows.
email:gordon@whitemountainadventures.com

Tomoe Yamagata - Sales and Events Director

Tomoe joined our team in March of 2008 and heads up our Teambuilding Event Sales and spends considerable time putting together many of the teambuilding events. Her enthusiasm and high energy help to create the right atmosphere of fun, excitement and anticipation during our corporate events.
email:tomoe@whitemountainadventures.com

Caroline Green - Multi-Day Program Operations and Accounting

Caroline has been with us since early 2006 and plays a critical role in seeing that all of our multi-day adventure trips run smoothly. It's her skill that makes the trips we run look like they're effortless!
email: caroline@whitemountainadventures.com

Kristi Beetch

A long-time resident of Banff, Kristi had been one of our part-time guides when she decided to make a major career change and turn to guiding full-time in 2000. Needless to say, we're very happy she did. She became a certified ACMG Hiking Guide in 1998, as well as a Professional Interpreter with the Interpretive Guides Association (IGA) in 2001. Kristi has a great rapport with guests, knows the Bow Valley well, and we only wish she had made her career change 10 years earlier!

Eva Sylvestre

Born in Switzerland, Eva worked as a teacher for 10 years. In 1989 she came to Banff for a short visit... She never left! Keeping with the tradition of Swiss Guides in the Rockies, Eva became a member of the A.C.M.G in 1997 and is also a Professional Interpreter of natural and human history with IGA. When she's not out guiding, you'll still find her doing exactly the same: enjoying the beauty of the Rockies by hiking, canoeing, snowshoeing and skiing!

Paul Price

Paul has worked with White Mountain Adventures since 1992 while he has also pursued other careers. Fluently bi-lingual Paul has spent part of his time as an elementary school teacher, much of it as a park ranger in Kananaskis Country, and also a good portion of it a hiking, skiing, and multi-day adventure guide with White Mountain.

Dave Booth

Dave joined our team in 2003 after spending many years in the British Military. He and his wife Sue have recently taken over the Ambleside Inn B&B in Canmore. Dave is extremely versatile and loves the variety of different work that White Mountain Adventures offers him including hiking and heli-hiking, snowshoeing, leading teambuilding activities, and conducting interpretive guide walks and tours.

Michael Turcot

Michael is a long time resident of the Bow Valley and like many of his fellow colleagues pursues a variety of interests, mostly related to the outdoors. He has been guiding for us for 4 years now and his past managerial experience is also finding a good outlet as a corporate event leader.

Mark Thorsteinson

Mark originally began working with us 2 years ago strictly on the team building event side of things and now finds that he has an equal interest in guiding hiking groups as well. He is great as an event leader and his creativity helps us put that little bit of something extra into our programs.

Paul Sylvestre

It's taken quite a few years but Paul has finally realized that the kind of work his wife Eva does is a heck of a lot of fun. He's been guiding now for 2 years, has incredible knowledge of the area and simply loves working with people! Paul is also a professional interpretive guide with the Interpretive Guides Association, a day hiking guide with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides and has lived and hiked extensively in Banff National Park for 32 years.