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Tom Wolfe

ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide and Owner of Sawback Alpine

Tom Wolfe is a mountain guide based out of Canmore, Alberta in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He started Sawback Alpine Adventures in 1995, initially running mountain hiking trips and later, as an IFMGA certified mountain guide, leading ice climbing and ski adventures throughout the Canadian Rockies, on sail-to-ski journeys in Norway and beyond. Tom worked as a heli-ski guide in northern British Columbia for close to ten years, juggling shifts heli-skiing with weeks at backcountry ski lodges. Eventually Tom settled on his first love, guiding ski touring trips, and has never looked back.

Trip Review

Discover Svalbard: Skiing The Northernmost Slopes on Earth

In Svalbard, the mountains rise straight out of the Arctic Ocean, the sun refuses to set, and every ski line feels like the edge of the map.

Tom Wolfe

ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide and Owner of Sawback Alpine

Location Review

The Best Canoeing in Canada Is Also Its Wildest

With over two million lakes and rivers, canoeing Canada’s labyrinths of waterways unlocks a vast wilderness you can’t get to any other way. And the best of the best may just be located in the country’s heart, and soul.

Tom Wolfe

ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide and Owner of Sawback Alpine

Trip Review

Why You Need to Go Hut-To-Hut Skiing in the Canadian Rockies

Deep within the heart of the Canadian Rockies lies the Wapta Icefield. This snowy wilderness is home to not one, but two of the country’s most popular hut-to-hut skiing tours—the Wapta and Bow-Yoho—just yearning for your turns.

Tom Wolfe

ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide and Owner of Sawback Alpine

Location Review

Discover the Best Remote Backcountry Ski Lodges in British Columbia

With the best skiing B.C. has to offer, backcountry lodges are your perfect unplugged getaways hidden deep in Western Canada’s jaw-dropping alpine paradise.

Tom Wolfe

ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide and Owner of Sawback Alpine

Tom Wolfe

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