{"id":29994,"date":"2026-05-13T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=29994"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:05:16","slug":"guide-training-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/13\/img-news\/guide-training-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide Training Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting time here at IMG!<\/p>\n<p>Our six new guides reported to Ashford at the end of April, and began their training to become our next class of top notch mountain guides. This training process covers everything from rope skills to Wilderness First Responder certification, and has been developed over decades by IMG leadership to set our newest additions up for success.<\/p>\n<p>We also hosted our annual all guides training weekend, where we bring the whole company together to brush up on skills, meet the new guides, and set up the coming season. We always wrap up a full day of training on Saturday with a staff barbecue, and it&#8217;s a well-loved tradition here at IMG.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you in the mountains!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30002\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[29994]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30002\" class=\"size-tb_medium wp-image-30002\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-620x413.jpg\" alt=\"The 2026 IMG staff poses for a group photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-940x627.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEL05879-1-195x130.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2026 IMG staff poses for a group photo.<br \/>Photo credit: Celine Francois<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2026 It&#8217;s been an exciting time here at IMG! Our six new guides reported to Ashford at the end of April, and began their training to become our next class of top notch mountain guides. This training process covers everything from rope skills to Wilderness First Responder certification, and has been developed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30010,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29994\/revisions\/30010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}