Kate has spent ten years and 25,000 guests investigating a single question: what happens when you put a person in the right wild place and leave them there long enough for their biology to notice?

The answer became The Hike Collective, eleven state and national tourism awards, and countless adventures through Western Australia's most significant wild places.
Kate speaks to corporate audiences, tourism conferences, and leadership groups about why the "where" of any experience matters more than the industry has ever bothered to investigate. Her commitment to that idea is unwavering. Not because it's a nice philosophy. Because she's watched it hold up 25,000 times and never once seen it fail.

Leighton spent forty years making wildlife documentaries for National Geographic. Four-time Emmy nominated. He's filmed black cockatoos, tracked native mammals, and knows Rottnest Island's marine ecology the way most people know their commute.
Now he walks our trails and tells you what you're looking at. Not the tourist version. The version a person tells you when they've spent four decades watching this landscape through a lens and still aren't bored of it.
You'll learn something on a walk with Leighton that you won't find on any sign or in any guidebook. Mostly because he was there when it happened.

Amanda is a university linguistics lecturer, a field researcher on Aboriginal languages in remote WA and NT communities, and the kind of person who plans a five-night bushwalk the way other people plan a weekend. She brings a teacher's instinct for reading a group and a researcher's obsession with detail to the trail.
She's also the host most likely to tell you the origin of a place name and make it the thing you remember most about the walk.

Lindsay is our Karijini host, which means she spends a lot of her working life inside two-billion-year-old gorges explaining things most geologists would need a textbook to cover. She does it while lending you her walking poles and remembering your name.
She's the host guests mention by name in reviews, because she has the rare skill of making people feel like the landscape is letting them in on something, rather than just letting them walk through it.
Ask her about a rock formation and you'll get the geological answer. Stay quiet for a moment and she'll tell you why it matters. That second part is the one people remember.

Kat left a corporate consulting career because she kept noticing that the most useful thing she did for people happened on weekends, on trails, not in meeting rooms. So she made it her job.
She's walked the Overland Track, the Inca Trail, the Routeburn, and completed the Kokoda Foundation Challenge in fifteen hours. She brings that quiet endurance to every experience she hosts, not to show off the kilometres, but because she knows exactly what it feels like to be the person at the back wondering if they can make it. She can. And so can you. Kat will make sure of it.

Willow spent six years as an emergency nurse in some of WA's most remote hospitals - Derby, Halls Creek, Corrigin - before deciding she'd rather help people feel good than fix them after they don't. She also spent years as a wildlife tour guide on Seal and Penguin Island, where she created a sea lion snorkel experience from scratch.
So when you're on trail with Willow, you're walking with someone who can identify the bird, handle the emergency, and make the nervous first-timer feel like they've been doing this their whole life. That combination is rarer than it sounds.

Rowie's previous job was guiding people through ancient cave systems in Margaret River. Before that, supervising wildlife encounters at Caversham Wildlife Park. She's spent a decade learning how to explain the natural world to people in a way that makes them care about it, not just look at it.
Walk with Rowie and the trail becomes a living system instead of a path. She'll point out the ecological relationship between two species you'd have walked straight past, and somehow make it the most interesting thing you've heard all week.

Chantelle loves exploring and getting out on bite-sized adventures on weekends.

John joined us in 2021 after a day on Rottnest Island where something shifted that his consulting brain couldn't quite explain. So he came back. Then he kept coming back.
He's a support host on our Perth experiences, which means he's the person at the back of the group making sure nobody feels left behind, literally or otherwise. He has a quiet knack for spotting the guest who's nervous about whether they can do this, and being nearby when they realise they can.

Dani is the host who knows every trail in the Perth Hills well enough to have a favourite section of each one. The bit between the start and the summit two that nobody photographs but everybody remembers.
She's a support host on our Perth experiences, which means she's often walking alongside the person who arrived not quite sure they belonged here. By the end, they do.