About Our Staff

Trish is a passionate outdoor enthusiast with over 20 years' of experience as a world traveller. Her first overseas trip was a 5 year stint where she worked her way around the world. She's lived in Thailand, Australia, Costa Rica, and the US, and has traveled and guided extensively in North, South and Central America, Europe, Oceania, Africa and Asia. In those years living abroad, Trish lived directly with the locals, learning and experiencing their distinctive cultures first-hand. She studied tourism management and fitness leadership. Some of her jobs included a sea kayak guide in Thailand, fitness instructor in Canada, Costa Rica and Guatemala, Sales and Marketing director for a tall ship in Toronto, tour leader throughout almost every South and Central American destination and even a cook on a fishing boat in Australia. She has guided and helped to develop every one of our adventures. In her spare time, Trish is usually outdoors either mountain biking, hiking, sea kayaking, trail running or climbing. Trish has a passion for the world and all of the amazing cultures that inhabit it and does her best to immerse herself directly into their distinctive lifestyles.

Meghan Burton has been working at BikeHike Adventures as the Director of Operations for the past 3 and a half years. Her passion for travel was passed on to her by her parents, who always took her to exotic destinations as a child such as Hungary, Croatia and Newfoundland. When she graduated from high school, her parents encouraged her to travel around Europe for 4 months where she gained a better appreciation for world history, art, red wine and cheese. After completing a University degree in Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism, she decided to delay working in the "real world" and backpacked for 2 years around Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and Eastern Europe. Upon returning to Toronto, she then went back to school for Adventure Travel Management where one of the requirements was to complete a school placement. During this placement, she worked with us here at BikeHike Adventures and has been here ever since. Some of her favourite countries include Viet Nam, Costa Rica, Turkey and Slovenia.

Stephen has over 10 year of marketing and technology experience working with brands such as the Guinness, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker, GM, Ford and Xerox. Stephen has many proud professional achievements. Within 2 years, he built an entire interactive marketing department from the ground up, which was approved as a marketing technology provider to Ford and Xerox. However, despite his successes, his work wasn’t close enough to his true passions: running, rock climbing, multi-sport racing and travel. Earlier this year, he joined the BikeHike Adventures team with a mission to produce the richest experiences for imagining and planning epic adventure travel. He says he couldn’t be happier and jumps out of bed to get to work every morning. Although, you can bet that if he’s not in the office, you’ll find him out in the alpine or training for the next local race.

Gordon is a world traveller who has worked in many aspects of the adventure travel industry. He has traveled to over 65 countries. He was one of the owners of ElderTreks, an adventure travel company for over 50 market. He managed a hotel in Fiji, taught English in Japan and now lives on beautiful Vancouver Island where he spends most of his time venturing into the outdoors. He guides many of our adventures and is one of our photographers as well as business consultants.

Juan Carlos has been with BikeHike Adventures pretty much from the very beginning and is one of our top guides. He started in the warehouse maintaining bikes and gear and shopping and packing for our trips. He then trained for his swift water rescue certification and is now one of the best river guides in the country. He is also qualified in Wilderness First Responder. He was born on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica but moved to San Jose as a child. He is an extremely responsible guide with a wife and two children. At one time he had the chance to follow in his father’s footsteps and possibly become a professional soccer player, but thankfully for BikeHike, he decided that his heart lay in adventure tourism where he has the opportunity to excel at a variety of sporting activities.

Charlie is originally from England, but has been living in Morocco for the past 4 years with his wife and son. He has a long history in the adventure travel industry, working in tourism sales, marketing, management and operations. He's very well-travelled and has an unquenchable thirst for discovering new places. He spent two years of extensive research exploring mountain bike routes and hiking trails throughout Morocco. Now he spends much of his time leading groups, enjoying the chance to endulge his passion for adventure sports.

Massimo has lots of accolades under his belt. He was trained as an agricultural engineer but has been working in the adventure travel industry for many years now. He excels in the water sports with awards as the 5 times Brazilian champion of slalom kayak racing and 2-times South American champion. He was also a rafting champion two years in a row. He guides multi-sport trips throughout Brazil and has a warm and jolly spirit. He’s loved by all of our travellers.

Jorgen has been living and guiding in Ecuador for the past 10 years. He was born in Sweden in the town of Kiruna, but decided to swap the Arctic Circle for the Equator 15 years ago. Before guiding he had various professions including a mechanical engineer, commercial fisherman, foreign aid worker and mountain ranger. However following his true passion of the outdoors and mountain biking, he decided to start guiding active trips through Ecuador. He knows Ecuador as well as the locals and is always happy to show off the country to fellow travellers. We always receive rave reviews from our clients about Jorgen.

Mountain Tim found his way to Western Canada from North Wales via Germany. After leaving Germany Tim arrived in the mountain town of Banff. In Banff he worked as an interpretive hiking guide and later as an interpretive river guide on the Bow River. Though he resides now in Edmonton, the mountains have become a part of Tim and he is happy to return to them year after year. His leadership, water safety and personal flair serve him well while guiding. He has completed courses to become an interpreter as part of the Mountain Parks Heritage Interpretation Association. Tim has been guiding groups since 2006.

Domogoj was born and raised in Zagreb, Croatia. When he is not guiding trips, he’s back in Zagreb studying law. His grandfather once told him that he swam across his first river at the tender age of two. True or not, he’s been a water enthusiast ever since. He spent eight years as a rower before venturing into sea and whitewater kayaking. He’s been guiding trips for the past 10 years, speaks English, French, and German and offers "free legal advice on the water.

Ursula is a world traveller who has guided trips throughout Slovenia as well as around the world. She spent a half a year traveling around Colombia, where she was practicing photography, improving her Spanish and dancing salsa with the locals. She has a degree in management and organization. During her studies she traveled extensively between Asia and Latin America. She is very knowledgeable about Slovenian outdoors and culture. She is addicted to snowboarding, rock-climbing and hiking. She speaks English, Spanish and German.

Our lead Galapagos guide and Chief Exploratory Officer has been working as a guide for the past 21 years. He’s a natural, at home in the rugged Andes or the Amazon jungle. He possesses vast knowledge of biology and natural history, has extensive rainforest experience and is also a kayak instructor. He likes to tell his students about the 50 river descents he has done all over North and South America. Our clients love him for his charisma, knowledge and personability.

Sebastian has more than 11 years of experience guiding nature and adventure tours throughout Ecuador and elsewhere in Central and South America, including Costa Rica, Peru, and Chile. He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Management and Social Development - but his knowledge extends far beyond what you can find in any textbook. Of all of Ecuador's different landscapes, Sebastián particularly enjoys the wet and dry forests and is passionate about teaching everyone on his trips about the ecological diversity of his country.