Life after guiding

Hey everyone! I'm doing my senior project as a research project on the career of a mountain guide. Through all my research I'm having trouble finding a piece; what do guides do after they are too old to do this job anymore?

Hire qualified guides and try to build a business?

Rep outdoor gear, hire other guides, go into a "normal" job, go back to school and start a different career. I don't think there is one common path.

Plenty of folks are guiding well into their 60's and make it their only job.

Get knee replacements?

BASE jumping.

Bob Culp is still guiding. Every now and then I see him out around Boulder with a client.

I have a friend who still guides at 76..after that it's fly fishing and death

Live off their spouse's pension?

Live off the interest if they didn't blow it all on gold chains, houses, women and sports cars.

Will Butler wrote:Live off the interest if they didn't blow it all on gold chains, houses, women and sports cars.