Austin-Lehman Guide Laurie Barnard leads Montana adventure vacations, Yellowstone Family vacations and Yellowstone guided vacations. She has taught kayaking, skiing, and sailing.
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Guide: Laurie Barnard
Short Bio: Laurie lives in Red Lodge, MT where she pursues her passions of hiking, biking, backpacking, skiing, climbing, and teaching African dance. She enjoys travel and has journeyed throughout North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and New Zealand. Laurie lived in Switzerland and France where she taught skiing, kayaking, and sailing. Her years living in Glacier Park allowed her to summit over 50 mountains. When she is not outdoors or traveling, she is providing speech-language therapy for children.

Trips Guided by Laurie:

  1. Montana - Big Sky Family - Cowboys, Canyons, & Campfires
  2. Montana - Canyons, Calderas, & Cowboys
  3. Yellowstone Family - Geysers & Grizzlies
  4. Yellowstone - The Serengeti of the American West

Laurie Barnard hikingLaurie's Guide Survey:

What’s your favorite vacation destination?
Anywhere in the Carribean

What’s your favorite hike?
Trails with pristine lakes, mountains, and streams

What’s your favorite bike ride?
Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park

What’s your favorite trip to guide?
Montana

Why?
Because of the wildflowers on the Beehive Basin hike, waking up to the sunrise on Yellowstone Lake, horsebackriding with our rancher, Martin, and the bike ride up Mill Creek in the Paradise Valley.

What do you do that makes a guest’s vacation special?
I can't tell you if you haven't been on one of my trips. I like to surprise my guests with the unexpected.

Favorite Movie: Just saw The Bucket List and loved it. Jack Nickolson and Morgan Freeman were great.

Favorite Book: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 

Favorite Song: Whatever one I'm listening to

Describe the most amazing experience you’ve had while guiding a trip:
Being able to sit on the edge of the road and watch a cow and calf moose eat just a few yards away from us. Seeing bald eagles soar over Yellowstone Lake right in front of us at the Yellowstone Lake Hotel, and getting to see the otters in the lake climb up on the rocks we were standing on.

When did you first catch the travel bug?
My parents always took me places while I was growing up. After graduate school I worked in Switzerland and France and had the opportunity to travel all over Europe. That's when it really hit.

What are your hobbies?
Besides all types of skiing and biking, hiking, climbing, and paddling, I enjoy West African drumming, jewelry making, and ethnic cooking.

Montana Big Sky Family: Cowboys, Canyons and Campfires

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23 years of experience

speaks for itself. As a leader in adventure travel and a tour operator since 1986, Austin-Lehman has extensive contacts and a longtime insider's knowledge in every market we visit. That means every experience – whether cultural, artistic or outdoor – offers guests an authentic feel for the local land, people and way of life.

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