About Us

 

The Local Experts in Outdoor Recreation and Adventure

in the Mount Mansfield Region, Stowe, Vermont

Local. Knowledgeable. Experienced.

Custom Trips To Match Your Wishes

At Sunrise Mountain Guides we want you to take a guided trip with us and use it as an educational opportunity after which you will be able use your new skills, to create your own adventures.

Whatever level of experience you have, we will create a trip to match your needs and desires, while showing you our wonderful backyard playground at the foot of Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont.

With safety as our number one priority, Sunrise Mountain Guides introduces, educates and encourages discovery of the Vermont “Mountain lifestyle”.

 

As Featured in the Best of Central Vermont

 

OUR GUIDES

 

Alex Sargent

Alex Sargent is Sunrise Mountain Guides’ “lead guide” and has always enjoyed the outdoors. Alex has been climbing and skiing for most of his life. The native Vermonter has traveled around the world for adventure and outdoor experiences and enjoys sharing his passion with others. His love for Vermont and adventure has helped him to discover some of the best climbing and outdoor experiences in the state. Alex’s many accomplishments include multiple first ascents of rock and ice climbing in the Smugglers’ Notch area.

Alex served 26 years as an instructor and leader in the United States Army Mountain Warfare School. There he gained extensive training and experience to teach and guide in the mountains. He is also an American Mountain Guide Certified Rock Instructor. Alex has climbed all over the world. Extensively in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He is also an avid adventure racer and runner when not in the mountains. He and his wife Elizabeth, have shared in many of his adventures, as well as their two children who also enjoy the mountain adventure lifestyle.

Greg Speer

Greg grew up in Vermont and has spent over 45 years hiking, skiing and climbing the Green Mountains. He also spent 10 years living in Seattle, Washington where he climbed, hiked and skied extensively in the Pacific Northwest.  He has guided in the Stowe area for the past 25 years and was co-founder of the Stowe chapter of the Bill Koch Youth League and the Stowe Nordic Outing Club.

Currently, Greg is a member of the Stowe Mountain Rescue Team and holds an  EMT-B certification, Swift Water Rescue 1 and 2 certification, AIARE Level 1 Avalanche certification, SRI Rope Management / Rescue certification,  Ice Rescue certification, Peak Rescue Institute Technician Level NFPA 1670/ 1006 Compliant Rope Rescue Certification and attended the Mountain Instructor Award Training Program at Glenmore Lodge, Aviemore, Scotland and the American Mountain Guide Association, Single Pitch Instructor Course.

Anthony Hamilton

Born and raised in central Massachusetts, Anthony first strapped into a snowboard at a little hill called Ski Ward. It was there, hiking the halfpipe for hours with friends, that a lifelong passion was born. Anthony’s snowboards and splitboards have since taken him around the country and across the world, in search of the next perfect piece of terrain waiting for someone to lay down turns. These days, he finds the most fulfillment in helping others experience their own “best day ever,” whether that’s sliding on snow, persevering through the crux of a rock or ice pitch, reaching the top of a climb on foot or bike, or just taking a nice quiet walk along a stream to a waterfall.
 
In his free time, Anthony enjoys fly-fishing Vermont’s small streams, cycling on the endless dirt and class 4 roads, hanging out with his partner and their dog, and tending to his small flock of Katahdin Sheep.
 
In addition to being Sunrise’s lead splitboard guide, he also guides rock climbing, ice climbing, mountaineering, hiking/backpacking, and gravel cycling. Anthony has a background in rope access and rescue, as well as in outdoor and experiential education. He is concurrently pursuing American Mountain Guides Association Splitboard and Alpine Guide certification as well as certification from the American Alpine Institute in Alpine Mountaineering and Technical Expedition Leadership. He maintains certifications from or in the following: CPR/AED, Wilderness First Responder, AIARE Avalanche 2 & Rescue, NFPA Rope Rescue Technician, ITRA Level 2, Leave No Trace, Move United Adaptive Sports.

Milan Kubala

Originally from the Czech Republic, Milan came to the US in 1992 on a tennis scholarship, and landed in Michigan where he earned his Marketing Management BBA. As an accomplished tennis player. Milan has been a very active outdoorsman, skiing since the age of 3, learning in the deep woods of the Black Forest that borders Czechia and Germany. When he moved to Stowe, Vermont in 2004, Milan started “skinning” and running in the Mount Mansfield/Stowe region and never stopped. Milan has always been passionate about adventure endurance sports, participating in such events as a teenager in the “old times” of communist Czechoslovakia.

Milan is very active in the Skimo world, not just on the East Coast, but also nationally and internationally.  He has multiple roles in the US Ski Mountaineering governing body, the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA).  He is a USA Skimo Board member, USA Skimo National Team Coach. He is also a member of USSMA Sports and Performance Committee and has been an integral part of the team working with USOPC and USSMA National Youth Team for the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. Internationally. Most recently Milan and USA Skimo team guided the Team USA to a historic 4th-place finish at the debut of ski mountaineering in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, just shy of the podium.

Zak Keene

Zak was born and raised in these here green mountains. Before he had taken his first steps, his parents were throwing him out onto the rock face, the trail and into the wilds, not so stealthily breeding into him a deep love for the outdoors. After graduating from the university of Vermont with a BA in English literature of all things, he moved into his van and took to life on the road. For over a decade, he lived and worked seasonally in Yosemite National Park where he fell in love with technical slab and slick crack climbing on pristine granite. In the winter, he bopped around the American southwest, chasing the sun and choice temperatures on desert sandstone in Red Rock, Indian Creek and Moab, and elsewhere. Zak has recently returned to Vermont with a wealth of rock climbing knowledge and experience under his belt, but more importantly, with a fresh set of eyes and a healthy appetite for adventure. You can usually find him out at one of the local crags, exploring new (to him) terrain or throwing himself at one of his favorite hard routes.

In addition to a lifetime of experience as a climber, Zak has earned his Single Pitch Instructor certification through the American Mountain Guide Association. He will be attending a the Rock Guide course next year, the first step in becoming a fully certified Climbing Guide. Zak also has a baseline knowledge of medicine, having kept a Wilderness First Responder certificate current through the years.