Splitboard · Ski Touring · Alpine · Canadian Mountains

Your companion
in the high country.

The grey jay is the one that stays all winter, and the one that leads you home. GreyJay Guiding takes you deeper into the backcountry, and brings you back with the judgment, terrain sense, and good company of a guide who lives up there.

Plan a day in the mountains Why the grey jay?
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Small groups. Real terrain. Decisions made out loud, so you leave a stronger, safer mountain traveler than you arrived.

  • CertificationACMG Apprentice Splitboard Guide
  • DisciplinesSplitboard · Ski Touring · Alpine · Rock
  • Home rangeThe Canadian mountains
  • Group size1 to 4, kept small on purpose

Perisoreus canadensis: the grey jay, whiskey jack, camp robber.

The name

The bird that brings you home.

Most birds leave when the snow comes. The grey jay doesn't. It works the boreal high country through the deepest part of winter: calm, clever, and completely at home in weather that sends everything else south.

Mountain people have known it for centuries. To the Cree it's Wîsahkêcâhk, the friendly trickster the voyageurs heard as "Whiskey Jack." It follows skiers and trappers down the trail, lands on an outstretched hand, and in the old stories it sings a lost traveler all the way back to camp.

That's the job. A guide is the one who already knows the way through, who reads the snow and the sky, and who gets you home with a better story than you left with. That's why this is GreyJay Guiding.

What we get up to

Pursuits

Days built around your objective and the conditions in front of us, never the other way around.

Splitboard & Ski Touring

Earn-your-turns days in the backcountry: skinning, transitions, terrain selection and powder, paced to the group and the snowpack.

Joey's home turf

Alpine & Mountaineering

Glacier travel, ridgelines and summit objectives, moving efficiently over snow, ice and mixed ground with the systems to back it up.

Spring & summer

Rock Climbing

Single- and multi-pitch on real stone: movement, anchors and rope skills for climbers ready to lead their own days.

Dry season

Mentorship & Custom Days

Building toward your own backcountry competence: trip planning, avalanche awareness and decision-making you take home with you.

Year-round

Every trip runs within Joey's certified scope and the day's conditions. Tell us the objective, and we'll tell you honestly whether it's the right day for it.

Field notes

Follow the season as it happens.

Conditions, objectives and the occasional faceshot, straight from the skin track. The feed is the most honest forecast of what the mountains are doing right now.

@joey.avalanche

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Joey Ganie

The guide

Joey Ganie

ACMG Apprentice Splitboard Guide

Joey lives the seasons the way the grey jay does: on snow all winter, on rock and alpine when it melts out. Splitboarder first, mountain generalist always, he's building his guiding through the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides with the patience that real terrain demands.

His days run on small groups, clear communication, and the unglamorous craft of good decisions, checking the ego at the trailhead so the mountain stays fun and the margins stay wide.

  • ACMG Apprentice Splitboard Guide
  • Backcountry splitboard & ski touring
  • Alpine, mountaineering & rock climbing
  • Avalanche-aware trip planning & mentorship

Plan a day

Let's pick a line.

Tell Joey what you're dreaming about: a first splitboard tour, an alpine objective, or a season of building skills. He'll tell you straight what's realistic and when the conditions line up.

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hello@greyjayguiding.ca · Based in the Canadian mountains