About Outdoor Link

History

The outdoors can be a source of recreation, education, and inspiration or a catalyst for growth and change for individuals or teams. These days our lives are generally highly urbanized and it is all too easy for our inherent connection with nature to get a bit stale. At Outdoor Link our philosophy is focused on helping people of all ages explore, enjoy, and reconnect with the natural world and each other. We are mountain guides and outdoor educators, and our mission is to help people explore the outdoors. Whether by hiking or backpacking, rock climbing or mountaineering, or just exploring and enjoying a place, we help individuals and groups connect with the wild.

What we do

The quality of our programs is our top concern. To that end Outdoor Link director Todd Vogel is certified by the American Mountain Guides Association in the fields of rock climbing and alpine mountaineering and he has been a backcountry ski guide since 1986. He is one of the leading instructors in the AMGA's top rope site manager program and has been active in outdoor education since the early 1980s. He has run thousands of outdoor-based programs for hundreds of groups at a wide variety of sites around the world.

Conservation is another one of our core values. By helping people discover and enhance their relationship to and their place within the natural world, we help work for the protection and preservation of wild places.

Program Highlights

Since 1983 we have offered trainings for guides, aspiring instructors, and recreationalists; climbing, backcountry skiing, and mountaineering programs; outdoor education trips for schools; and outdoor-based team building programs for groups and organizations. Our programs are 100% customized and designed from the proverbial "ground up" for each of our clients.

Staff Bios

Our program areas include the Eastern Sierra, Death Valley, Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Joshua Tree National Parks, Tahoe and Inyo National Forests.

All site content is copyright 2007 Outdoor Link, llc. All photos at this site are by Todd Vogel unless otherwise credited. Contact us at 2635 Highland Drive, Bishop, CA 93514 or tel 760-920-0774, fax 760-873-4800. E-mail us at info-at-outdoorlink.org. Of course you need to substitute the @ symbol. We operate under permit from the following agencies: Joshua Tree National Park, Death Valley National Park, Tahoe National Forest; Outdoor Link, llc member Todd Vogel is also a member of Sierra Mountain Center, llc and through SMC we have commercial access to Toiyabe National Forest, Inyo National Forest and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Outdoor Link, llc prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.