Pioneer Outfitters Extreme Pro Team Guides are Professional Guides in the truest sense of the words. They are the ones that no matter how bad things get, (and there are days they can get pretty bad... and then they can get really bad) can keep you going, keep you safe and later, when you are finally at the end of everything, your patience, your endurance, you just put on your last pair of dry socks and stuck them into a puddle of water- in your boots ~kind of "at the end", can build a big fire, feed you till you burst and make you laugh at everything you just went through.



The Pro Team are the Guides that live in Chisana year round, cut the fire wood, haul the water, take care of the range horses, clean, fix, oil, patch, mend, trap, and wait for the next guest to take them where the guest's dreams may lead them.  No matter what the temperature is, what the weather is up to, time of year it may be, they are the ones that can handle it all. All the interior mountains of Alaska may have to throw at us, the Extreme Pro Team Guides are prepared and capable.


There is a downside to the Extreme Pro Team Guides... this would be "The Ugly" part of the name they were given so long ago that there are numerous stories where it came from. The downside, "The Ugly" is the bragging rights. All Professional Guides have it, and use it, but the Extreme Pro Team Guides revel in it, enjoy it, write about it, talk about it, share it.... and most of the time, it's all on film, so they share it, world wide. "If you live through it, you have bragging rights" I grew up into a Professional Guide hearing this mantra, believe me, it is a fact. Now, I can tell you, we have never lost a guest or even severely damaged one.

The Pioneer Outfitters Extreme Pro Team, aren’t just a group of guides. They are the loyal, smart, tough men and women connected as a team with the common goal to be the best, period. To be right, to protect and to guide, to lead others in the right direction through the wildest country and through tough decisions.