Well customers and friends - we're happy to announce that our 2014 calendar is coming soon.  We know that most of our customers find us through Sierra College and word of mouth but many of you have requested that we keep our website up to date so that you can stay in closer contact with us.  We have listened and are committing ourselves to keep all of you in the loop.

Our calendar will be up soon.  We are planning trips to Yosemite, Tahoe, The Grand Canyon, Bishop and several others.  If you have a suggestion for a trip, please feel free to let us know and we will try to accommodate you.

Since our early days backpacking it is the blend of “what we do” and “who we are” that has made GCA. We are quite simply a group of explorers , naturalists, and inward seekers, sharing with our guests the incredible beauty of California. Our goal and passion is to give participants the opportunity to experience, through pure adventure travel, yoga, and meditation, the exhilaration, the wonder, the grandeur, and the solitude of California’s magnificent parks and wildlife preserves. . All trips include: guides, gear check list and pre-trip meeting(s), first aid, emergency satilite phone service, and for those interested yoga and/or meditaiton instruction.

Post Trip Report and Exciting News!

We had a great trip to the Arizona Canyon a month ago. Sorry for the late update, our camera broke on the first day and we only got a few pictures that our tech has been getting ready to publish. We spent three days completing our trek, without seeing a single other backpacker the whole time. Unfortunately, this trip proved to be a little more advanced than we anticipated and in the future we will only be able to reserve it for our experienced clients. The good news is that it was incredibly beautiful and the fun factor was off the charts. We look forward to bring our seasoned clients on this trek next summer.

We also have some exciting news to report! We have started making plans for a summer camp next year. This summer camp is going to focus on working with children with disabilities (families included). We plan to take three or four individual day trips from a base camp, while the parents have the option to stay at camp and sit in on seminars from our behavior therapists. We are very excited about this opportunity and are working as fast as possible to get it off the ground. Updates will be coming regularly.

A Very Special Trip

We are very excited to announce an upcoming trip for a very special family.  In the next few weeks we will be taking an out and back overnight trip to the South Yuba River.  What makes this trip special is the clients we are inviting.  An open invitation went out to all families in Northern California who have or know someone with a child who has been diagnosed with autism.  We have found a couple families who will love to get away from the busy city life for a weekend and enjoy watching their children spend time in a natural environment.

If you know a family who has a child with a learning disorder or another special need and would love to get away for a family weekend trip, please contact us.  We have many options to serve each family in their own individual ways.  All of our guides have experience working with children with special needs and are happy to fulfill those needs.

This type of trip is something that Green Creek Adventures is very committed to.  To find out more about autism and the special services we offer click "special needs" on the menu bar above

Upcoming Trip - Arizona Canyons

Green Creek Adventures will be hosting a guided three day backpacking trip through one of Arizona's lesser known canyons.  Space is limited so if you would like to come, please email us at greencreekadventures@gmail.com as soon as possible.

From Backpacker Magazine:

Wet Beaver Creek, AZ
Outsmart the Mogollon Rim crowds
Lower Wet Beaver Creek can look like northern Arizona's version of the Jersey shore—sun, water, and people. But just upstream, the scene changes entirely. Deep, clear, and partier-free pools ensconced in rippled redrock are shaded by arching sycamores and 1,000-foot-sandstone walls. The canyon can be done as a point-to-point hike in one ambitious day if you've arranged a shuttle car. Start at Waldroup Tank, where a steep descent down Waldroup Canyon leads to Wet Beaver's ironically dry creekbed. Springs surface within a mile, and the next 9 miles is a blur of bushwhacking, boulder-hopping, and swimming down the gut of this Mogollon Rim canyon. When you hear cannonball splashes and thumping boomboxes ahead, you'll know you've reached Bell Crossing, the popular swimming hole. Stop for a jackknife, then hike a sandy, flat 4 miles out to the Bell trailhead.

Death Valley January '11

Death Valley National Park: A Land of Extremes

Hottest, Driest, Lowest: A superlative desert of streaming sand dunes, snow-capped mountains, multicolored rock layers, water-fluted canyons and 3 million acres of wilderness. Home to the Timbisha Shoshone people and to plants and animals unique to the harshest desert.

This January we had some beautiful sunny weather and I decided to take a trip to Death Valley National Park to explore a not-so-well-known trail.  My hope was that I would find a nice secluded 4 to 5 day backpacking trip to take some clients on during the slow winter season.  The trek I chose started in the small community of Stovepipe Wells.  After an 8 mile drive down a dusty road, a friend and I started on our 32 mile hike.

The first day was beautiful, temps in the 70s, steep canyon walls and plenty of amazing scenery.  That night we camped out by a rippling creek, (there was a lot of snow melt from a freak storm a couple weeks earlier.)  The temp dropped down to about 40 at night and a nice breeze kicked up through the canyon we were staying in.

The next two days were filled with frustration of a lack of trail markings and a marked spring that wasn't really there.  In the end, we made it out with a little water left and very little food but alive and healthy.  This is a great trips full of the wonder only a desert can provide but I think it may be better for Spring if I'm going to take less experienced hikers.


Below are photos of wild mustangs we encountered while on our trip.  The park ranger told us that is was extremely rare to see the wonderful creatures and we were lucky.