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Discover the beauty of the great Canadian wilderness and experience the thrill of adventure while on a guided expedition, group trip, or educational program with Canadian Wilderness School and Expeditions.

Rocky Mountain Adventure - Eating lunch on a mountain ridge overlooking some alpine lakes

Survival Adventure Program

New for 2011 - Survival Adventure Program Have the time of your life and push your comfort zone in this once in a lifetime Outdoor Survival Adventure Program offered by CWSX. This one-week program will teach you how to challenge yourself to new levels; designed for outdoor beginners and enthusiasts alike, for all age groups and physical abilities. Learn how to overcome survival situations build survival shelters, find food, rappel canyons, and rock climbing cliffs.
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Courses

COURSE | Four-Day Survival Course

COURSE | Four-Day Survival Course

Trip Length: 4 days
Our 4-day survival training course provides a more extensive and in depth training of outdoor survival skills and knowledge. The central theme of this course is understanding your surroundings and improvising ways to survive. We begin by reviewing some of the basic principals of outdoor survival cov...

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COURSE | Introduction to Outdoor Sport Climbing

COURSE | Introduction to Outdoor Sport Climbing

Trip Length: 2 days
A course designed to introduce outdoor sport climbing.
The C.W.S.X. provides interested participants a chance to experience outdoor sport climbing in a safe, affordable manner. The course will cover the basics of rock climbing, and focus on providing as much practical exposure and experience a...

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COURSE | Two-Day Survival Course

COURSE | Two-Day Survival Course

Trip Length: 2 days
Our two day survival training course provides an introduction to basic outdoor survival skills in the Canadian mountains and the Canadian bush. This course will focus both on theoretical knowledge specifically in regards to basic awareness and how to be prepared; as well as practical knowledge and s...

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COURSE | Survival Adventure Program in the Rockies

COURSE | Survival Adventure Program in the Rockies

Trip Length: 7 days
This program is your version of “man vs wild.” Designed in an outdoor survival obstacle course and adventure race format, this program will get you pumped and push your comfort zone, all while providing you with an unforgettable fun experience. This one-week program will teach you how to challen...

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Victoria Falls on the great Nahanni River of the Canadian North

PLANNED DEPARTURES

For more information about a particular trip, select one of our Canadian Wilderness tour from the list below. To book a tour (or course), select a date from the list below.
Only trips with planned departures are shown below. Departures can be requested on other tours though: view all Expeditions on our Tours page

Lower Stikine

Lower Stikine

Trip Length: 11 days
Images of a vivid, vast, and remote wilderness landscape are an integral part of the experience for those who have visited the Stikine River. Named "The Great River" by the coastal Tlingit nation, its name conjures images of a wild river, jagged mountain peaks, pristine glaciers, and abundant wildli...

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North Boundary Trail

North Boundary Trail

Trip Length: 14 days
The North Boundary Trail along its length provides both the spectacular alpine beauty of the Mount Robson area (highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies) as well as immense stretches of unique solitude. A wilderness of broad valleys and distant views, inhabited only by Grizzlies, wolves, and caribou...

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Rocky Mountain Adventure Summer

Rocky Mountain Adventure Summer

Trip Length: 14 Days days
This two week program immerses participants into the spectacular surroundings of the Canadian Rockies. Participants will be introduced to canoeing, hiking, whitewater rafting, rock climbing, and the trips concludes with a four-day canoe expedition down the majestic North Saskatchewan river. Upon arr...

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The North Saskatchewan River- 7 Days

The North Saskatchewan River- 7 Days

Trip Length: 6 nights / 7 days
The upper North Saskatchewan River is considered one of the most beautiful and scenic river trips in the Canadian Rockies, and has been designated a Canadian heritage river since 1989. Its headwaters originating at the Colombia Ice-field at an elevation of 2080 m, the North Saskatchewan has a total ...

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Upper Stikine River

Upper Stikine River

Trip Length: 14 days
A vast, and remote wilderness landscape is at the heart of the experience for those who visit the Stikine Wilderness. Named "The Great River" by the coastal Tlingit it's name conjures images of jagged mountain peaks, pristine glaciers, and abundant wildlife. The Stikine has been described as a "Yose...

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West Coast Trail

West Coast Trail

Trip Length: 12 days
The world famous West Coast Trail on BC’s Vancouver Island is part of the Pacific Rim National Park system, and protects some of the most beautiful coastline and ecological important temperate rain forest in western Canada. The trail itself covers a distance of 75 km, and lies roughly between the ...

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Wilderness Trek - Canada

Wilderness Trek - Canada

Trip Length: 21 days
Trekking! Canoeing! Rockclimbing and mountainbiking in the Canadian Rockies! During this trip you will experience the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains along with the largest protected mountain parks system in the world: The Canadian Mountain National and Provincial Parks System. Our trip...

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Willmore Trek

Willmore Trek

Trip Length: 7 days hiking days
The Willmore Wilderness Park is a 4,600 square km (1840 sq. mi.) park adjacent to the world famous Jasper National Park. Along with Jasper, Banff and numerous other National and Provincial Parks the Willmore is part of the largest protected mountain parks system in the world: The Canadian Mountain N...

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Yukon Adventure Big Salmon River

Yukon Adventure Big Salmon River

Trip Length: 21 days
What greater landscape and pure isolation could evoke more majestic images than the immense vastness of the Canadian tundra and the Canadian north. From the salmon spawning rivers of the pacific, over the vast glaciers of Mt. Logan and the Saint Elias Ranges to the vast open tundra, the Yukon compri...

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CONTACT CWSX

Canadian Wilderness School & Expeditions
15-1119 Railway Ave
Canmore, AB, Canada , T1W 1R4

+1-855-653-8877 (Toll-free North America)

0-800-183-0079 (Toll-free Germany)

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Tel: +1-780-695-5141

Fax: +1-780-455-3944

Email: tours@cwexpeditions.ca

Website: www.cwexpeditions.net

CUSTOM ADVENTURES

West Coast Trail at the point - Custom tours and expeditions with CWSX

We love adventure, and we love the Canadian Wilderness. If we are not advertising the adventure that you have been yearning to experience, let us know and we will try to design a custom guided expedition for you!

Note that custom expeditions are often subject to minimum group size requirements.

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Ladder on the West Coast Trail

Trekking Trips

Single and multi-day Trekking trips throughout spectacular B.C, the Rockies, Yukon, Alaska, and Northern Canada

Paddling the Nahanni

Paddling

From single day begginner canoeing to extended white-water rafting and multi-day river trips. Discover some of the most awe inspiring rivers in the world

Mountaineering near Banff in the Canadian Wilderness

Climbing & Mountaineering

Learn rock and ice climbing techniques and prepare for advanced mountaineering expeditions.

Custom Winter Expedition in the Canadian Wilderness

Expeditions

Custom developed. Experience some of the most remote and isolated regions in the Northern Hemisphere