About Us

Association Profile

In 1988, in response to a shortage of qualified guides with the skills necessary for the mechanized ski industry, the BC Heli Skiing and Snowcat Operators Association issued a mandate to start a guide training organization.

The first courses were run in 1990 and the Canadian Ski Guide Association (CSGA) was incorporated on Feb. 8, 1996.

The CSGA now consists of a training institute which exists to train professional guides for the mechanized skiing industry (CSGI) and a separate non-profit organisation representing guide and operating members (CSGA).

Our Mission

• We inform, advise, educate, encourage and motivate potential guides of all ages and abilities.
• The goals and objectives of the association are to develop and to maintain the highest possible professional ski guiding service standard for its membership and the ski industry.
• To provide an effective program for the education, training and certification of ski guides who have gained four to five years’ working experience in the industry.
• To provide the students an affordable operator-industry-driven training program.
• To provide full-time employment opportunities for Canadians.
• To provide safe travel in the High Alpine backcountry
• To provide a high degree of customer satisfaction