Backpacking Tours

Wild Horizons Expeditions’ Backpacking Tours

Founded by avid outdoor lovers for outdoor lovers, Wild Horizons Expeditions boast backpacking tours for one and all. Owned and operated by Paul and Cindy Knight, Wild Horizons Expeditions has paved the way for backpacking enthusiasts to enjoy backpacking tours over the years, bringing them closer to nature’s wonders.

Paul Knight is an avid mountain climber, skier and hiker, with extensive experience in wilderness operations like first aid techniques and compass and map reading, with this experience backed up with his professional Ski Patrolman career. Cindy Knight, an enthusiastic hiker as well, has well versed knowledge about wildlife fauna, which come quite handy once dealing with the outdoors. She is a registered nurse as well, further emphasizing Wild Horizons Expeditions’ focus on safety, as well as educational experience with regards the botanical wonders present outdoors.

Offering scheduled custom backpacking tours through the areas of Arizona, Southern Utah and Wyoming, Wild Horizons Expeditions’ backpacking tours stands to be among the most popular tour packages offered. With locations specifically chosen, where crowds and people aren’t around, Wild Horizons Expeditions Backpacking Tours are known to provide true wilderness experiences for one and all. Wild Horizons Expeditions provide the necessary equipment for their backpacking tours, ensuring trekkers a comfortable and fun filled outdoor backcountry experience. The equipment includes backpacks, sleeping bags, tents, ground pads and meals, and are “complemented” to a client’s physique, limitations and capabilities considered.

Backpacking tours are known to provide trekkers with a genuine outdoor experience, rivaling any other outdoor activity. No previous backpacking experience is required to take part in Wild Horizons Expeditions’ backpacking tours, as able guides “talk” backpackers through the backpack trek. But clients would have to be in perfect physical condition though, as backpacking calls for strenuous activity, as well as dealing with harsh weather conditions.

Potential clients for Wild Horizons Expeditions’ backpacking tours are made aware that they would be carrying a 35-30 lb pack, which they should consult their physicians about before signing in.

As modern conveniences like showers and indoor plumbing aren’t available outdoors, clients for backpacking tours must also forego a few comforts when signing up for Wild Horizons Expeditions’ backpacking tours, which is of course the whole point of backpacking tours.

It has been said that the rewards of a wilderness vacation last a lifetime. With Wild Horizons Expeditions backpacking tours, these rewards are easy to attain, benefiting clients with a worthwhile outdoor experience, which are both educational and fun filled.