Copper Cayuse Outfitters
Sea to Sky’s #1 Guided Horseback Tour Company
The Real Wild West
Copper Cayuse Outfitters is the premier guided horse riding company in British Columbia’s Sea to Sky corridor and offers many different types of horseback adventures in the Whistler and Pemberton areas.
We provide hourly horseback trips in Pemberton, full and half-day rides in the Birkenhead Lake backcountry, multi-day trips into the wilderness areas of Birkenhead Lake and Sun God Mountain, as well as custom rides almost anywhere you want to go.
It is about you and the horses. We look forward to meeting you on one of our many rides!
Our History
Copper Cayuse Outfitters was founded by Dudley Kennett and Don Coggins. The CCO partners have a great deal of experience in the saddle and in backcountry travel in general. The creation of Copper Cayuse Outfitters is an expression of their shared passion for horses and British Columbia’s wilderness.
Dudley was born and raised in BC’s Okanagan, working alongside his father who taught him early in life how to work a cattle range from horseback and to log with draft horses. He spent his spare time as an adult travelling on horseback with his mentor, Fred Shields, an experienced mountain guide from Seton Portage. Horses were his hobby during his career as a forest technician but in 1986, Dudley put his horses to work providing trail rides for Whistler’s visitors at the base of Blackcomb Mountain. Dudley continues to operate Blackcomb Trail Rides every summer.
Don spent his boyhood summers in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia working on his uncle’s beef and apple farm where he also learned to ride and tend horses. As an adult, he owned and operated a small hobby farm in New Brunswick using his spare time to train and ride his pleasure horses. Don followed his tour in the Canadian military with a long career in corporate Canada. In 1992 he moved to Whistler to establish Chidaq Consulting Ltd., a sales and marketing business that he continues to operate.
