The Alpenglow Expeditions Strava Club

You’re in Elite Company

Train with the Community Behind the World’s Most Experienced Mountain Guides

The Alpenglow Strava Club is where our athletes, guides, and everyday mountain people come together. It’s a place to track your progress, stay consistent, and train alongside the same guides and climbers who shape our programs around the world. Whether you’re prepping for your first backcountry tour, building fitness for Aconcagua, or tuning up for an 8,000-meter season, this is the hub that keeps the entire Alpenglow community moving.

Live widgets on this page show the current leaderboard, recent activities, and highlights from members around the globe. You’ll see everything from local laps in members’ hometowns to high-altitude training runs, long stair-machine sessions, skin tracks before work, and weekend missions across the Sierra and beyond. It’s all here—real people doing the work day after day.

Seasonal Challenges

Throughout the year, we host Alpenglow-specific training challenges built around how we prepare our own teams. Vert weeks, consistency streaks, gear giveaways, strength targets, and expedition-focused training blocks—each challenge is designed to push you just enough, no matter where you live or what you’re training for. Winners earn small prizes, but the real value is staying accountable to a community that actually shows up.

Train With Guides and Climbers You Know

Our guides are active in the club, logging their own training from Tahoe to the Himalaya. You’ll see their prep for Everest and Cho Oyu, their big days in the Sierra, and the same base-building work we prescribe to our clients. It’s a direct look at how the best in the industry train, recover, and stay consistent. You’re not just following along—you’re training alongside the people who run the most dialed expedition program in the world.

A Community That Moves With Purpose

What makes the Alpenglow Strava Club different is the mix of people inside it. You’ll find first-time AIARE students, long-time backcountry skiers, guides with decades of Himalayan experience, and climbers prepping for the biggest peaks on the planet. It’s a space where everyone is working toward something, big or small, and each person brings something to the community.

Why Join?

Stay accountable with weekly and monthly challenges
Build consistency with support from other Alpenglow athletes
See how our guides train for local and international expeditions
Connect with clients and climbers from around the world
Use leaderboards and activity feeds as real-time motivation
Keep training fun, social, and grounded in purpose

Show Up. Log Your Days. Move Toward Your Goals.

Join the Alpenglow Strava Club and be part of a training community built around preparation, effort, and the understanding that the work matters as much as the summit. Whether you’re just getting started or lining up for a major expedition, you’ll find your people here.

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Our Next Challenge

Aconcagua Vertical Challenge

While our team is on Aconcagua this season, we’re inviting the Strava club to train alongside the expedition by matching the amount of vertical gain we’ll climb on the mountain.

From base camp through the high camps and back down, an Aconcagua ascent involves roughly 14,000 feet of vertical gain. That’s the benchmark for this challenge.

Over the course of the challenge window, your goal is to accumulate 14,000 feet of vert in whatever way fits your routine—trail runs, uphill skiing, hiking with a pack, stair laps, or a mix of all of it. All activities logged on Strava that include elevation gain will count.

As the expedition progresses, we’ll share updates from the mountain so you can see how your training lines up with what’s happening on Aconcagua in real time. Anyone who completes the challenge will be sent a gift card for $250 off the Ecuador and Peru Climbing Schools, or $500 off Aconcagua in 2026/2027!

What’s Next At Alpenglow?

We’re heading to Aconcagua! Check out the map and follow along with our trip.

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