Our goal is to provide such guides for all of our courses, thus ensuring you of the best possible all- around climbing experience.
All guides work as independent contractors.
Tipping your guide is customary when you are pleased with their performance. Mark Bowling established Joshua Tree Rock Climbing School in 1988 and has been guiding since 1977. His adventures have taken him from climbing the nose route on El Capitan at age 17 to trekking and climbing mountains in the most primitive places on earth. From the interior jungles of Irian Jaya lndonesisa, to first ascents in Alaska and extensive rock climbing throughout Canada, the United States and South America including an ascent of Mt. Fitzroy in Patagonia. Mark co-holds the record for the most climbs climbed in Joshua Tree National Park in a single day, free soloing 200 climbs in 18 hours.