OUR GUIDES

Our guides are all experienced and passionate mountain bike riders chosen for their qualifications, experience, professionalism, and personality.

With a ratio of one guide per 4-5 guests, you won’t feel overcrowded. Your personal guide is there to keep you safe and customise and cater the day around the group’s riding ability and desires.

Guiding in New Zealand’s alpine environment is serious business, which is why we have chosen the best for our guests.

  • Hedley Wilton

    LEAD GUIDE

    Hedley's love affair with cycling started after finding an abandoned bike in a ditch as a child. Once resurrected the bike was access to freedom, exploration, and endless adventures. The romance continues to this day and Hedley has now ridden, raced, and guided throughout the world sharing his love of exploring and biking with clients, friends, and family. There is no better way to observe the world than from a bicycle seat in Hedley's mind. A firm believer in the correct number of bikes being N+1 Hedley now has more than one bike in his collection and likens it to golf where there is an appropriate selection for all occasions.

  • Dave Lundin

    LEAD GUIDE

    Dave was introduced to mountain biking as a teenager while growing up in Wellington. Biking has been a passion of Dave’s for the past 25 years. Now living in Luggate with his partner, 2 kids (6 and 8 months) and thier dog, he continues his passion of being outside and exploring new places. Dave has a background in ski patrolling, avalanche education, ski guiding and rope access. He’s also a member of the specialist Wanaka Canyon Search and Rescue team. Being outside is his happy place along with meeting new people and sharing our backyard and all it has to offer.

  • Doug Beech

    GUIDE

    Doug has worked with Southern Lakes Heli Bike since its inception.
    He first started riding as a child, or in his words “for as many years as my age” and began racing with the kids in the neighbourhood.
    Since then, he has been on an unimaginable number of guiding trips with bikes, hikes, Fiordland and beyond. For any regular person, you would lose count, but Doug never forgets his experiences and the guests along the way. A man of detail and dedication.

  • Pete Mitchell

    GUIDE

    Pete comes from a background spent in the hills, canyoning, whitewater kayaking, tramping, mountain biking and turning his passion into his career in outdoor education.
    Pete has worked all over New Zealand in the outdoor education sector, showing others around his happy place! Pete currently runs WORD in Wānaka, a youth mountain bike organisation created to give young people a sense of community in the outdoors and building skills on the trails!