Seasonal/Summer - Wilderness Guide

Do you love Jesus and the outdoors? Are you looking your next summer opportunity? We want you to join our team at AEI Base Camp, sharing the love of Christ with our clients and spending the summer in the heart of the Rocky Mountains!

  

Positions are seasonal from mid May through early August. We are thankful for the staff that served with us in years past; many of them continue to return each summer.

Wilderness Guide: All Experience Levels 

As a Wilderness Guide, you will facilitate and gain skills in several high-adventure mountaineering areas, including: backpacking, rock-climbing, orienteering, high and low ropes course, hiking and peak summits. 

These individuals conduct wilderness experiences that are safe, enjoyable, and challenging for a variety of different groups. When not serving a group, guides are also responsible for maintaining and improving equipment and facilities. Guides need to have (or will gain) a broad range of knowledge concerning the outdoors as well as strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Even if you don't have a history of outdoor experience, we want to hear from you! You will learn an incredible amount working at AEI.

All new staff will be required to have Wilderness First Aid and CPR certifications, an ACCT Level 1 certification (provided), and be in excellent physical condition.

 

Minimum age is 18. Benefits include food, lodging, Colorado Compensation Insurance and a bi-weekly salary.

 

Qualifications:

- Follower of Jesus
- Takes initiative & looks for leadership opportunities
- Has discernment & utilizes critical thinking
- Ready to handle living and guiding at high altitude (min. 10,000 ft elevation)
- Team player - we are a small family at AEI Base Camp
- Handles group facilitation and public speaking with confidence
- Willing to live off-the-grid / in a remote environment for the duration of employment (we are about 1 hour from town)
- Follows direction well and open to guidance from peers and leadership

Preferred: (not required)
- Strong outdoor skills in any of the following areas: backpacking, rock climbing, orienteering, high / low ropes, summiting peaks, ...
- Wilderness First Responder Certification
 

Please fill out the Application form online and see the “How to Apply for Employment” link for a step-by-step process. 

More about AEI Base Camp:

Our History

AEI Base Camp was born from a vision to use wilderness adventure as a venue for connecting people to God. Owners and founders, Tim and Linda Kempfe, saw their dream become a reality when they purchased their first tract of Taylor Park property in 1984.

From that time, AEI Base Camp has evolved to become a place, used by God, for people to grow spiritually, physically and mentally. Currently, AEI Base Camp is a 1,500 acre wilderness facility that can comfortably accommodate 160+ people.

Base Camp is used in the summer as a Christian wilderness adventure camp and in the fall as a ministry to sportsmen and women.

Our Passion

AEI Base Camp desires to give everyone a safe opportunity to experience God and grow in their relationship with Him through wilderness adventures.

We do this by reflecting Jesus Christ in all that we do and demonstrating His compassion, grace, understanding, forgiveness, leadership, and unconditional love.

Faith Statement

AEI Base Camp is a privately owned, interdenominational effort to share the love of Christ with all people of every background. “…There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace though the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:22-24)

The staff at AEI Base Camp are hired from all denominational backgrounds that hold close to their hearts the most basic tenants of Christianity. “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2)

Differences in denominational doctrine have been set aside for the sake of our calling. The teaching that campers receive while at Base Camp will follow the guidelines of basic truth that come from the Holy Bible.