Perfect Earth offers Yukon teepee tours

SIXTY FLIGHT MINUTES FROM WHITEHORSE, YT—For a three-month window of time starting this month, 10 guests per tour will be able to live in custom-made organic teepees in a resort that uses no fossil fuels, where the staff to guest ratio is three to one. Depending on their week, they’ll be able to listen to Sylvia Tyson, Sophie B. Hawkins, Kim Carnes or Hawksley Workman around the campfire under the northern lights.

“We wanted to showcase that we can do a profitable new business with no damage to the environment,” Mike (The Organic Cowboy) Mueller told CLN in an interview.

“We wanted to provide an alternative for people who would like to experience the timeless beauty of the true wild north in absolute luxury while contributing as much as possible to saving our planet and leaving nothing but your personal footprint in the mountains,” said Mueller and partner Alana Nelson, founders of Perfect Earth Tours on the company website.

“Wherever we went, either to work in the mountains or on business trips to Europe or North America, we always felt extremely guilty staying in high-end (five Michelin stars) resorts or hotels and observing the vast amount of environmental waste and at times even total disrespect for the environment.

“So we thought it would be time to put our funds and our efforts where they count. The decision was made to create - as far as we know —North America’s first and only 100 per cent environmentally sustainable Luxury Wilderness Eco Spa Resort—a resort that offers only the finest of the finest in regards to accommodations, spa activities, menus, live entertainment, equipment, horses, staff and—last but most important—pristine scenery.”

Products must pass the owners’ very strict personal organic sustainability criteria including the following guide lines:

• Support local organic businesses first.
• Buy organic within western North America if we can’t find it locally.
• Use recycled products as much as possible.
• All of our bedding, clothes, furniture are made of some kind of organic material (i.e. hemp, cotton, silk etc.).
• Our vehicles run on bio-diesel.
• Minimize the use of fossil fuel related items, with the goal of totally eliminating any use of fossil fuels.
• No permanent structures in the bush. Our entire resort is dismantled at the end of each season.
• No trace resort, which means really no trace!

Even the staff wear socks, shirts and pants made from hemp, Mueller told CLN.

Cost of a three-night, four day adventure is $6,250 per person plus tax. Cost for five nights and six days is $8,750 plus tax. Prices include nights at the Pacific Palisades—A Kimpton hotel in Vancouver on the way there, and at The White House hotel in Whitehorse on their return, plus complimentary spa service at the resort. Flights are on Planet Air, and guests must pay a fee to offset their carbon usage when they book their flight tickets.

“Despite our strict guidelines for the use of sustainable products of all sorts, our main focus is on our client’s needs and desires,” the website states.

“There is no need to compromise luxury just because you have a conscience.”