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Alpine to the Max

About Us

5.0 (107 reviews)
Alpine to the Max is the only Colorado-based climbing guide dedicated to experiential education. Even if you're just looking for fun, you will come away with so much more. Our mission is to share and inspire mountaincraft through experiential education. Climbing has a long tradition of knowledge being passed down through mentorship. Finding someone knowledgeable with whom you have a strong personal connection with is key. Our goal is to form a relationship with you that benefits your climbing career for a lifetime.

Est. 2020 Boulder, Colorado

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+1 207-505-0347
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The Guides

Max Lurie

Eric Shaw

Jayson Simons-Jones

Ian Fowler

Jake Baldwin


Reviews

5.0 (107 reviews)

Trip: Custom Rock Climbing

Guide: Matt H.

By Stephen C. on June 18, 2026


Trip: Custom Rock Climbing

Guide: Mike S.

By Stephen C. on June 18, 2026


Trip: Custom Alpine Objective

Guide: Japhy D.

It was a perfect day! Japhy is the man. Super friendly, knowledgeable, and plain old fun to hang out with.

By Noah C. on June 05, 2026


Trip: Classic Eldo Multi Pitch

Guide: Ryan P.

We had an excellent time with Ryan P, he was a great communicator, and excellent guide. We have always had a great experience with Alpine to the Max, this was our 3rd trip to Eldo with them, we are looking forward to more.

By Matthew B. on June 05, 2026


Trip: Custom Alpine Objective

Guide: Mike S.

Great climb with Mike Soucy. Mike's professionalism helped me to enjoy the outing and feel safe. I also learned a lot.

By Gediminas Z. on May 14, 2026


Trip: Custom Rock Climbing

Guide: Japhy D.

Japhy was an amazing guide. Not only did he plan out some perfect pitches/routes but he was so great to talk to and knew a ton of interesting facts and lore of the area and the geography.

By Audrey C. on May 06, 2026


Trip: Custom Rock Climbing

Guide: Japhy D.

We loved our day of learning how to Trad Climb in Eldorado Canyon with Japhy! What a great experience!

By Philip M. on April 27, 2026


Trip: Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue

Guide: Japhy D.

It was completely amazing. Our guide took the time to focus on topics and techniques that we wanted to make a priority. He engaged all of of us and cared that we were developed as mountaineers. Thank you so much!!

By Siri I. on April 07, 2026


Trip: Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue

Guide: Japhy D.

Japhy was awesome, such a humble, interesting, nice guy. Was so great to have him as our instructor!!!

By Tyler K. on April 05, 2026


Trip: Learn to Lead Trad

Guide: Max L.

Max is precisely what I was looking for in a guide; friendly, fun, articulate, and inspiring. He is a wealth of knowledge and does a very good job at simplifying concepts to make them easily digestible. He's also some kind of wizard - truly the epitome of slow is smooth, smooth is fast. 10/10 would recommend.

By Zebulen V. on February 17, 2026