Valued Partners in the Industry
Kling Mountain Guides works for and with the best outfitters and companies in the business. Let us take you around the globe. Whether it be climbing, skiing, trekking, or any other mountain adventure. Check out the companies that Josh Kling and Kling Mountain Guides works with below.
Guide Services, College Programs, and Outfitters
Kling Mountain Guides is proud to have partnered with The Durango Rafting Company. These guys and gals are the only rafting company located in Durango that makes family fun their #1 priority! Check these guys out for some great river adventures. Float down the Animas River through the heart of Durango with professional raft guides who specialize in family rafting trips.
Josh Kling and Kling Mountain Guides is privileged to work with San Juan College's Outdoor Leadership and Recreation program (OLER) . This is the fifth year that Josh has worked with OLER at San Juan College. The OLER program at San Juan College is designed to provide an Associate of Arts Degree in Outdoor Leadership with a variety of transfer options. All Outdoor Leadership classes are not limited to degree seeking students, Faculty/Staff and community members are welcome and encouraged to participate in the classes. Please visit the above link for more information.
Mountain Trip was born in the mountains of Alaska in 1973, and has been guiding climbers on Denali since 1976. Come climb the highest peak in North America with Josh Kling and Mountain Trip! Mountain Trip is an authorized concessionaire of Denali National Park and Preserve.
Gear Shops and Retailers
Backcountry Experience is Durango's premier climbing, skiing, camping, and hiking, shop. It has been located on the edge of rugged Southwest Colorado since 1989. The store is a full line, family-owned, completely stocked backpacking, mountaineering, rock climbing and backcountry/telemark ski shop. With the Southern Rocky Mountains and high desert around, and the canyons and big walls of Arizona and Utah to the west, the staff loves to play hard and have fun too. They carry such brands as Backcountry Access, Millet, Black Diamond, La Sportiva, Arc'Teryx, Petzl, Metolious, Yates, Camp , Mountain Hardwear, Beal, Mount Belle, Kayland, Asolo, Evolv, Acopa, Asana, to name a few! The Kling Mountain Guides office is located inside of Backcoutry Experience at 12th and Camino Del Rio.
Colorado is filled with great mountains and great beer and Ska Brewing is the best! Kling Mountain Guides is privileged to be able to team up with multi-award winning Ska Brewing in Durango.
Get read for your next adventure with Crossfit Durango! Whether you are climbing long rock routes in the Black Canyon, alpine objectives in Alaska, or high altitude peaks in South America Crossft Durango can get you ready! Jacob and his team of certified trainers make you feel at home while helping to achieve you goals and get ready for your next adventure! Don't train with the ordinary, train with the Extraordinary!! check them out!
Lodging and Resorts
The Best Western Rio Grande Inn is located in the heart of historic downtown Durango. With amenities such as complimentary breakfast and complimentary cocktail hour, an indoor heated pool, hot tub and sauna, and high speed internet, what more could you ask for! Check out their website for more information.
Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort is YOUR HOME MOUNTAIN! If you are looking experience what Durango and Southwestern Colorado have to offer, than you have come to the righ place. KMG is the official mountain guide service of Purgatory Mountain. Check out the great programs that we offer on the slopes of Purg!
The Best Equipment
Kling Mountain Guides is proud to be able to outfit all of our course participants with BCA products. BCA's mission is to save lives, not just pump products. They are an industry leader that sets the bar high! BCA sees its self as having a responsibility, making sure people are equipped not just with products, but with education. That’s why they have invested so much in research and education. If you have not been to their site, check it out!
Kling Mountain Guides is proud to be able to be working Oboz Footwear! All our guides and instructor are now wearing Oboz shoes on all KMG trips and courses! Where do Oboz come from? Wel combine the words “outside” and Bozeman” and you’ve got “Oboz.” Moreover, you’ve got something that speaks volumes about Oboz as a company and their priorities. Outside is where there heads are, dreaming of the next peak to climb or river to float. And Bozeman, Montana is where they live, play and of course, work on making Oboz the best shoes out there! Check them out!
Professional Organizations
The mission of the American Institute for Research and Education (AIARE) is to “Save lives through Education.” AIARE provides the best training in avalanche education for backcountry enthusiasts. This is a must have if you wish to rip the pow-pow safely! Make sure that whoever you choose for an avalanche instructor is up-to-date with the most current in avalanche education.
KMG's owner and lead guide, Josh, is a Professional Member of the American Avalanche Association. The American Avalanche Association is comprised of dedicated professionals engaged in the study, forecasting, control and mitigation of snow avalanches. Make sure that whoever you choose as an avalanche course instructor they are at least a Professional Member of the American Avalanche Association.
Kling Mountain Guides is privledged to Avalanche Deployment (AD) program for the Mercy Regonal Medical Center's branch of Flight for LIfe, CO.
Kling Mountain Guides is a Partner Guide Service with Leave-No-Trace. Our “office” is comprised of the mountains and desert, so we take LNT very seriously.Two of our staff our Leave-No-Trace Master Educators, the highest level of LNT training. We are excited to offer Leave-No-Trace Life Time Trainer courses along with Leave-No-Trace Awareness workshops. If you or your organization is interested in a LNT course, call us to see if we can help you become more LNT!
Kling Mountain Guides is proud to be helping with the coordination of the Flight For Life® Colorado Avalanche Deployment Program. The AD Program was developed to rapidly deploy an avalanche team to the site of an avalanche where someone has been buried. Team members go through a rigid training program. By training with KMG's AIARE and AMGA trained instructors and guides, FFL is showing their commitment to the highest quality of avalanche education. This is also tremendous testimonial to the quality of avalanche education that KMG puts out. Come train with the company that trains with the best!
Government Agencies
Kling Mountain Guides LLC is an authorized permit holder in the Wrangel-St. Elias National Park.
Kling Mountain Guides LLC is an authorized permit holder in the Cedar Mesa Grand Gulch BLM, Indian Creek BLM, and Moab Castle Valley BLM districts.
Kling Mountain Guides LLC is an authorized permit holder in the San Juan National Forest and Manti-La Sal National Forest.
Kling Mountain Guides LLC is an authorized permit holder in the Dalla Mountain Park, Durango CO.
