Bruce Wilson - CFOKE Founder, Guide Trainner and Full Guide Class III

"Since 1989, I have professionally guided on the waterways and in the mountains of British Columbia and Alaska. I feel privileged to live my passion as my vocation.

I have paddled the outer coast of Alaska, kayaked from Prince Rupert to Tofino and enjoyed numerous ski tours through the mountains of British Columbia. I have been continually inspired by the majesty of the land, wildlife and people that call these places home.

The past two years have found me guiding in South East Alaska and the Yukon. These places capture the soul, inspire the imagination and provide a sense of perspective that one only gains through being truly alone.

Winters find me guiding and educating as a Professional Member of the Canadian Avalanche Association. I also teach at Capilano College in their Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management Programs. Additionally, I own and operate my business, Wild Whisper Consulting and Guide Services, where I practice the art of alchemic leadership.

Over the years, I've come to discover that my best friends all sleep on the ground. My elemental life philosophy is; living an unexamined life is far riskier than sleeping on a beach near bears."

Jen McGuinness - Full Guide Class II

Jen McGuinness grew up on the Sunshine Coast, where feeling the sand between her toes, swimming and paddling in the ocean, and hiking through temperate rainforests were regular activities. . In 2004 Jen embarked on a new adventure, creating Summitwave Adventures: mountain and ocean travel based on creativity, health, and conservation of BC's incredible wilderness.

A Diploma in Outdoor Recreation Management initiated Jen's guiding career in 2001. Since then she spends half the year kayaking the BC Coast, including Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Gulf Islands, and the Central and North Coast. During the other half she skis, teaches Avalanche Safety Courses, and works with her dog, Neve, to become an Avalanche Rescue Team. Jen's life motto is to live spontaneously, creativity, and adventurously. She loves to travel and explore and has spent time in Kenya, Europe, and South America.

Currently Jen is on the Board of Directors for the North Coast Cetacean Society, a non-profit organization involved in whale research and habit conservation for Humpback Whales and Orcas in BC. Nature has the inherent ability to draw out our true selves and rouse reflection and awareness in all of us. The more wild and remote the adventure the more Jen feels at home; this where she finds her inspiration, ceativity, and peace of mind.

Norman Hann - Full Guide Class II

Norman Hann was born in Sudbury, Ontario where he grew up canoeing and fishing on the lakes and rivers of Northern Ontario. After a successful university basketball career, and with a Bachelor of Education Norman became a high school teacher and coach. A passion for the wilderness brought him west to British Columbia where he became a certified wilderness guide and educator.

Norman has been guiding on the coast of BC for 9 years contracting with wilderness lodges and running his own guiding business, Tantalus Adventures. This company connects the soul of the individual to the spirit of the outdoors by leading sea kayaking, hiking, sailing, fishing and wilderness viewing trips on the north coast. Norman has recently been adopted into the Raven Clan of Hartley Bay, a small native community on the north coast for his work with the youth in leadership programs, basketball teams and tourism initiatives in that community. Norman lives in Squamish, BC the adventure capital of Canada, and has recently accepted a job coaching the women's university basketball team at Quest Canada in Squamish.

Martin Temple - Full Guide Class II

Martin Temple was born and raised in Vancouver and is now based out of Squamish, B.C. With the mountains and the ocean on his doorstep, it wasn't long before he took an avid interest in the "great outdoors". From exploring the rainforest and waterways of BC to extensive overseas travel, Martin is constantly seeking new adventure and experience. When asked where he'd rather be, Martin will invariably reply, "Out in the wilds, sharing adventures and growing with others." Martin is also a Padi certified scuba instructor and operations manager at a Vancouver based European food import and distribution company. With four years of guiding experience and his many interests keeping him busy, Martin looks forward to and values his time spent paddling the coastal waters of British Columbia.

Jenn Dickie - Full Guide Class II

Jenn Dickie was born in the Yukon, where at a young age she was introduced to the outdoors and spent much or her childhood at the family cabin. After moving to the interior of British Columbia in her early teens she was fortunate to be able to participate in an outdoor education program, where she was introduced to new backcountry activities and wilderness survival skills. Jenn's love of travel and nature has taken her to unique and amazing places around the world, always with a camera in her hand. In 2000 she earned a diploma in Adventure Tourism and began working as an wilderness guide on the west coast of British Columbia. Now a lead ocean kayak guide and a level 2 Paddle Canada instructor, she is the School Director of one of Canada's largest Ocean Kayak companies and teaches at an Adventure Tourism College. Her photographs have been sold throughout BC and published in magazines around the world.

Michelle Boender - Full Guide Class II

Michelle Boender grew up in the Lower Mainland with summers full of adventure on the coast with her family and friends camping, kayaking, surfing, and fishing. With her sense of adventure and appreciation of the amazing natural environment she embarked on a new life adventure of wilderness guiding in 2001 through the Wilderness Leadership Certificate Program and the Outdoor Recreation Management Diploma Program.

With a passion and desire to share her love and respect for the natural environment her guiding career took off in many different directions from kayaking guiding in many of the coastal areas of BC, instructing cross country skiing and patrolling the ski slopes of the coastal mountains, kayaking, sailing and skiing in New Zealand, to sailing the North and South Pacific on a tallship. Through all her many different experiences at home and abroad she has always been drawn back to BC for what it has to offer to explorers of the natural marine environment with its endless islands, inlets and bays and an ecosystem that never ceasses to amaze.

Currently when not out on a trip Michelle lives in Squamish BC, kayak guiding in the summer months, working with a sail training organisation in the spring and fall, patrolling at a local ski area in Vancouver and cooking at a backcountry ski lodge over the winter.

Terry Berezan- Full Guide Class II

Terry Berezan is owner/guide of Kluane Wild Guide Services  Ltd., an adventure tourism company offering trekking and sea kayaking  trips in Alaska, Yukon and Baja, Mexico. He is an outdoor educator,  naturalist and a professional nature photographer.

Terry has been working in outdoor related careers for twenty-five  years. His adventures have taken him to fifteen countries around the  world. Terry views wilderness travel as a privlege. He has a deep  respect for the natural world and is dedicated to the conservation of  wild places. Terry is passionate about guiding, wilderness and sharing  quality adventures with his guests.

Terry and his family live in an off-the-grid solar home in the Kluane wilderness of the Yukon Territory.