Beth Dempster best expresses the intrinsic rewards we as guides
receive from our work...
“Working as a guide brings
two important rewards. One of them is filling my soul with needed sustenance –
an outdoor fix that carries me through the long winter. Since I could do this
on my own, the second reward – although more subtle – is in many ways more
important. It arises through the many people I have met on Sea to Sky
adventures. For each of us, regardless of our skills and reasons for
participating, trips have involved new experiences and new challenges, all
within a new and different setting. And what a setting! It’s a wilderness
environment (which entails extra risks as well as extra beauty) with a group of
people that begin as strangers and leave with connections. Challenge,
wilderness, and cooperative companionship – it’s a rich combination that brings
out a unique and remarkable energy. It’s a mingling of helping hands,
campfires, thunderstorms, good food, triumphs, struggles, sore muscles,
late-night conversations and laughter. To be a part of such rich experiences,
more especially, to be able to facilitate and enable them, is a reward that is
unmatched in my other endeavours. Even after all these years, guiding for Sea
to Sky continues to be a joy and a privilege.”
