COVID-19 UPDATES
UPDATE: January 25th, 2021
San Diego County bars, restaurants, fitness gyms, movie theaters, and other similar businesses were instructed to close in December, 2020 due to the rise in COVID-19 cases. The recent closures do not impact our commercial permits, therefore we will continue to facilitate fun and responsible outings within all of our permitted zones. As always, we will continue to monitor the situation closely and operate as per our COVID-19 operating procedures and guidelines that you can read here. Stay safe and we’ll see you out on the rock or in the snow in 2021!
Currently open for guiding
UPDATE: November 11th, 2020
San Diego County bars, restaurants, fitness gyms, movie theaters, and other similar businesses have been instructed to close once again due to the rise in COVID-19 cases. The recent closures do not impact our commercial permits, therefore we will continue to facilitate fun and responsible outings within all of our permitted zones. As always, we will continue to monitor the situation closely and operate as per our COVID-19 operating procedures and guidelines that you can read here. Stay safe and we’ll see you out on the rock!
Currently open for guiding
UPDATE: August 24th, 2020
No news is good news these days! As of August 24th, 2020 we are still operating at all of our allotted venues and within the recommended parameters set forth by our permitting agencies within the state of California. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and operate as per our COVID-19 operating procedures and guidelines that you can read here.
Currently open for guiding
San Diego (Dixon Lake) & Los Angeles county
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UPDATE: July 13th, 2020
California Governor Newsom ordered the immediate closure of businesses operating indoors which included dine-in restaurants, wineries and tasting rooms, bars, movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoo’s, museum’s and more. The recent turn of events in California due to COVID-19 and these new orders were directly targeted at indoor services and has not impacted our commercial guiding operations. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and operate as per our COVID-19 operating procedures and guidelines that you can read here.
Currently open for guiding
San Diego (Dixon Lake) & Los Angeles county
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UPDATE: July 10th, 2020
We’re pleased to announce the below venues are all officially open for commercial guiding. Please make sure to click the button below to learn more about our new COVID-19 operating procedures.
Currently open for guiding
San Diego (Dixon Lake) & Los Angeles county
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UPDATE: June 4th, 2020
As of June 4th, 2020 our Inyo National Forest permit has been reinstated! Golden State Guiding is back up and operating in the Eastern Sierra! Below is our running list of areas we hold permits in and are currently authorized to commercially guide in once again. Looking forward to a great season on the Eastside!
Currently open for guiding
Closed until further notice
San Diego & Los Angeles county
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UPDATE: June 2nd, 2020
We’re pleased to announce we’ve been booking guided trips to Joshua Tree since May 18th but we’re still waiting for the green light regarding the other venues we operate in. As of this week we’re starting to see commercial guiding operations have their permits reinstated in Inyo National Forest which is great to see! We hope to receive word soon that our permit has been added to this list. We’ll continue to update this page as we receive more information from the agencies we deal with.
Currently open for guiding
Closed until further notice
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UPDATE: May 18th, 2020
Golden State Guiding is back! Below is a list of areas we currently operate it. While Joshua Tree National Park is the first agency in California to allow commercial guiding under new restrictions, we are closely monitoring our other venues and will frequently update this page as closures begin to lift. It’s time to get back in the saddle and get some climbing done!
Currently open for guiding
Closed until further notice
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UPDATE: April 30th, 2020
We see a light at the end of the tunnel but we're not quite there yet! Talks are happening, recreational areas are slowly opening with restrictions, and the smell of optimism along with spring is in the air! We're starting to see counties slowly open businesses, the curve is flattening, but we still have a ways to go. Golden State Guiding is monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic closely and as soon as our local authorities and agencies give us the green light to continue commercially guiding we'll sound the horn and let everyone know!
Until then, there are a few things you can do to support your local guides and the services they work for in this time of need.
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UPDATE: March 23rd, 2020
As with so many other businesses, which includes guide services throughout California and the world, Golden Sate Guiding made the decision to suspend all commercial guiding in our permitted regions until this virus has come to rest. Although not a decision any company wants to make, it was an easy one. It was a decision that never felt forced, and one we felt was our responsibility to see through to the end.
In our opinion, it's time to take advantage of this down time (or tough time), to reenergize, rejuvenate, decompress, collect your thoughts, and maybe stay off the Gram for a minute. We'll soon return to doing what we love most which is guiding and recreating in these beautiful places we're so fortunate enough to have. The resiliency of our community and industry as a whole will ensure we come out the other side stronger and smarter, we thoroughly believe this, so take notes along the way.
Moving forward in the coming weeks, play by the rules, don't visit the places we love so much if it involves leaving your local community, and focus on whats important right now, family and friends.
And lastly, for all the other guide services and guides out there, thank you for being such a great inspiration to our service, it's been amazing to see everyone coming together during these uncertain times. Hang in there, we're all in this together, whether being the new service on the block or seasoned vets. Continue to do what you do best which is inspiring and supporting our awesome community.