While Bindlestiff Tours has traditionally provided “adventure” style tours leaving from Las Vegas to the national parks that are located within a half-day drive of the city, recently we have branched out to offer several unique tour packages that are different than anything we have done before. We realized that the destination itself was important, but our style of tour also is what people are looking for. We are different from other tour companies that provide scripted sightseeing tours that literally drive past beautiful areas and allow you to take pictures through the glass windows of a bus. If you are lucky on those types of tours, you might get out for a few minutes to stand in front of a landscape and take a picture, but they are designed to allow you to look at the landscape and area but not to experience it. This is what makes us so much unlike the other companies, our philosophy is to get out of the vans and get into the areas, exploring and learning about them, living the way the people lived there hundreds of years ago and experiencing the great outdoors as only those who love to explore do. Our tours involve hiking and climbing, canoeing and walking. We do not want to just look at the areas we visit, we want to live them.
The Canadian Rocky Mountains are completely unique, and represent one of the greatest areas of unspoiled nature on the planet. There are a wide selection of protected spaces and Canadian national parks in the vicinity, so we have constructed a seven day tour that takes us to Kamloops, Yoho National Park, Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Ice Fields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Mount Robson, Clearwater, Whistler and Vancouver. During this tour, our guides will act as your personal sherpa, providing guidance for your personal experience of the beauty of the area. We will camp under the stars and explore the natural environments of elk, bears and cougars. We will see wildlife in person that you have probably only seen in magazines, and witness the majesty of icebergs and mountains that are thousands of years old. We will see lakes that you can only imagine as far as clarity, and breath air without pollution of any kind. All in all, it is a week long experience that you are not going to get anywhere else, and we do it in a way that is unlike other companies.
We meet in Seattle on specified days and cross the border into Canada in order to embark on our journey. We have found that the tour leader acting as an escort through areas that they have a personal love for and an intimate knowledge of is a far better experience than someone who simply drives the bus while a DVD gives you information on what you are seeing out the windows. When we are done, you will feel like an expert too, and will return home with a lifetime of memories unlike any other.