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===Wilderness guide===
[[Image:Raquette River - at Sweeney Carry.jpg|thumb|Adirondack guides (carrying and rowing [[guideboat]]s on the [[Raquette River]], 1888]]

A [[wilderness]] guide leads paid parties through back country areas that may variously include land, water bodies, and high country &mdash; but not so high and technical as to require the skills of a [[mountain guide]].  Wilderness guides in the United States are historically and romantically particularly associated with the [[Adirondack Mountains]] of [[New York State]], where they first established the application of their skills as a broadly accepted and financially compensated trade.

Wilderness guides are expected to have a command of survival skills (such as making shelters, [[Making fire|fire-making]], [[navigation]], and [[first aid]]) and an understanding of the [[ecology]] and [[history]] of the location where they guide. Other common skills among guides include traditional [[handicrafts]] and cooking methods, [[fishing]], [[hunting]], [[bird watching]], and [[nature conservation]].

Wilderness tours usually take place on foot, though aids such as [[skis]] and [[snowshoes]], and conveyances such as [[canoes]], [[kayaks]], [[sledges]], [[pack animals]], and [[snowmobiles]] are utilized as appropriate.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.tao.tampere.fi/tao/TAOWWWAIKUISET/era-_ja_luonto-oppaan_at_%28international_wilderness_guide%29.html|title= International Wilderness Guide program|author= Tampere College|author-link= Tampere College|access-date= 13 October 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111227094816/http://www.tao.tampere.fi/tao/TAOWWWAIKUISET/era-_ja_luonto-oppaan_at_%28international_wilderness_guide%29.html|archive-date= 27 December 2011|url-status= dead}}</ref>