I don't take tips. I can't stop you from tipping one of the guides that work for me but I don't encourage it. They are getting paid a fair wage, they took the job knowing what the work entailed and they accepted it for that pay, to tip them is to say they deserve more than I am paying them.

If they only perform at 100% because of a possible tip then they are of no use to me, I am often heard saying to our crew that you don't get an "atta boy" when you are simply doing what you are suppossed to be doing!

If you'd like to buy a round at the evening fire that is fine, if you would like to leave a gift as a thank you that is fine too but money is insulting and in poor taste, to me anyway.

When I am offered a tip I feel that I am being insulted in a round about way; as if without that offer of a tip I did not do my best for you.

If you enjoyed your time with us then return, don't tip me, just come back. That is the true mark of an enjoyable trip--- a return trip.

money is only money, as a fine man has said, when you take a man's money all you take is his money, but when you take a man's time you take a part of his life.