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About Outspire
We're Santa Fe's hiking tour specialists. Let us share New Mexico with you!
We know what fun it is to be outside! But we're also serious about your fun. As a professional guide service, Outspire is recognized and approved for leading guests into the outdoors of Santa Fe National Forest, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks Monument, Bandelier National Monument and other public lands by permit. Every guide has emergency medical and specialized outdoor training. This helps you know your safety is protected and your enjoyment is ensured while at the same time we follow practices outlined to protect the beautiful places we visit.
 Outspire is a partner in the community, supporting the efforts of the Trails Alliance of Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Conservation Trust, and preparations for our quadracentennial celebration the Santa Fe 400th.
Outspire and its guides have also contributed in a variety of ways to our local community for years, particularly as regards our natural resources. To see more of what others have published about us, see our Press File.
Our Guides
Although our guides are peppy and enthusiastic to share their joy of the outdoors with you, they're not young pups. All are well-seasoned outdoor folks with lots of life experience to bring to the party. We have been living in New Mexico for years and love it! |
 Karen Denison, guide and owner of Outspire, is a 23-year resident of Santa Fe, a former biologist turned guide for the area she loves. Among her other activities she is a fly casting instructor certified by the national Federation of Fly Fishers, co-author of a regional fly tying book, instructor at the local community college in map-reading and hand-held GPS use, and an active volunteer for a number of area non-profits. She has been guiding visitors in the northern New Mexico outdoors since 1997. |
Jon Asher left a teaching job over thirty years ago in the Midwest to live in the mountains of Colorado. Jon is an artist and musician. He has worked as a hiking and river guide in the West for over twenty years. His passion and love for the outdoors is contagious and he loves to share his enthusiasm with others. He currently sells sporting gear for active, outdoor dogs (and their owners) online at WildMountainOnline.com |
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 Lev Bogle, a civil engineer and geologist, has long been an avid hiker, spending as much of his free time as possible afield. Over the years, Lev has walked the hills of central Germany, the mountains of Appalachia and Colorado and the rugged Big Bend area of the Texas borderland. For the past eight years, he has enjoyed exploring the mountains and deserts of northern New Mexico. In addition to a love of the outdoors, he brings an interest in local history and an understanding of the geological processes that produced our state's spectacular scenery.
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Dené Canon has spent most of her life guiding people. Her love of the outdoors stems from growing up in the Pacific Northwest and climbing Mt. Rainier over 30 years ago. She is a retired Flight Attendant who has trekked extensively including hiking the Inca trail to Macchu Picchu, climbing Mt. Fuji in Japan, and hiking the Grand Canyon rim to rim. Since moving to Santa Fe almost 6 years ago, she is thrilled that there are so many different hikes right out her backdoor and knows Santa Fe has a lot to offer any outdoor enthusiast for all levels of experience. “There is no place that I would rather be than hiking in nature and being outdoors”.
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Shirley Lynn was drawn to New Mexico from her native England in 1987 by a love of the wilderness here and a desire to paint it. She is a working artist with a studio/gallery on Canyon Road, but spends much of her time outdoors. She has been very involved in conservation of our natural environment for years, and has used her art to draw awareness to this. An avid trail-runner, skier and snowshoer, she is often on the mountain trails in her spare time. She loves to show visitors the beauty of our state, and feels "very lucky to be living here".
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Barrie Robbins, guide and founder of Outspire, has backpacked and hiked in the western United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Scotland, and Ireland. She enjoys getting to know an area by exploring it “off the beaten path.” She has been living in Santa Fe and exploring its trails for six years and is passionate about sharing her joys in the outdoors with others. She brings knowledge of the trails and a friendly and playful spirit to guiding.
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