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When you travel with Fit 4 Adventure you not only explore the world, but meet like-minded fitness enthusiasts who share your passion for one-of-a-kind experiences.   

Our trips include cycling in Spain, trekking in Switzerland and skiing in Colorado, and itineraries are equal parts fitness and fun. For every hill climb there’s a wine tasting, and  for every encounter with a manatee while snorkeling there’s a sunset cruise.  

Along with planned itineraries throughout the year, Fit 4 Adventure also works with groups of athletic adventurers who are looking for custom holidays. Are you part of a running or cycling club that wants to travel together, or have a group of friends in need of an active getaway? Contact us, and we’ll do the planning for you.  

With us, you’re not simply booking a trip — you’re signing up for an adventure.

diverse locations

Guided adventures in over 11 countries and counting. We take you to the best places and book hand-picked accommodations.

Experienced staff

Every one of our trips features a dedicated team member that travels with your group to ensure you have the best time possible.

Let us handle the details

When you travel with us, we take care of the details so you can have the best experience.

200+
trips
11
countries
2001
traveling since
1000+
adventurers

our team

meet the people that make this happen

Diane Golden
Founder

Diane has always been a fitness/health buff, outdoor enthusiast, and wanderer.  Even back-in-the-day when she was a hotel industry Accountant, active vacations were always top priority … often taking off work without pay to go somewhere.

Always staying in shape kept the door open for many adventures through the year including running marathons, scuba diving, hiking, cycling, rock climbing, canyoneering, camping, rafting, canoeing, kayaking, and horseback riding.

Being the “organizer” for many active vacations for herself and friends through the years, Diane dreamed of starting her own business one day.  Doing exactly that, by the fall of 2000 it was time to launch Golden Adventures (now FIT 4 ADVENTURE) full time!

Today, after traveling there since 2001, Boston marathon is the largest trip for FIT 4 ADVENTURE (500 traveling with us for the 2017 Boston Marathon). Our cycling trip in Mallorca, Spain, is also hugely popular and going strong since 2011.

We have such a variety of athletic interests, FIT 4 ADVENTURE trips have grown into much more than running & cycling. The trips now include hiking, kayaking, rafting, yoga, skiing, snow shoeing and more! New, active adventures are born every year. Honestly, Diane passed along a simple philosophy- plan an epic adventure as if as if it were for your best friends. It truly is the best job ever!!

Joe Dann
Owner/Adventure Guide

Since 2009, when Joe first came along on a F4A hiking trip at Big Bend National Park, he has contributed to, and created, many exciting adventures for our guests as our Senior Guide. Some examples: hiking in Washington State, Utah and Alaska; winter powder play in Colorado; trekking through the Alps in France; exploring in Iceland and Mallorca…and more to come!

As an Adventure Guide, Joe is easy-going and adaptable - always looking for the most unique and unexpected experiences.  Meanwhile,he stays well attuned to safety and satisfaction of those he travels with.  In addition to the regular trips, Joe can create and host private, customized trips for your family or group.

In his less-senior years, Joe worked in advertising, then home building and finally commercial construction.  His more adventuresome post-career path started in 2008 when he was the hike leader in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program in North Texas and got connected with Diane and F4A.  In 2011, he relocated to Seattle where he managed fundraising summit climbs on Mt. Rainier for the American Lung Association, while also working as a city tour guide and starting to lead more F4A trips.  Joe now lives in St. Louis where he has picked up yet another side hustle at the local REI Co-op.  As a sales specialist at REI, he enjoys expanding his gear knowledge and sharing travel experiences with customers.

Favorite adventure sports:
Hiking, trekking, skiing, snow shoeing, camping,cycling and paddling.
Certifications: NOLS WMI Wilderness First Aid; Licensed Commercial Bus Driver.  
Fun fact: Only clean-shaven male guide in the outdoor adventure industry! 

Kris Corbett
Owner/Adventure Guide

Kris is an outdoor enthusiast, triathlete, event planner, and a true adventurist at heart! Right after college she headed to Colorado to follow her dreams of working at a ski resort, and continued to fall in love with anything and everything outdoors: hiking, biking, skiing, ice climbing—you name it she tried it!

In 2002, she put everything she owned in storage and hit the road, spending the next 12 years traveling the world while caddying on the Nationwide Tour/PGA Tour, and being the Tour Director for the APT Men’s Golf Tour. Her weeks off were spent exploring and finding adventures anywhere she could, including rock climbing in Rio, surfing in Chili, scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef, and backpacking in New Zealand.

She also enjoys trail running and competing in triathlons, finishing 6 Ironman Triathlons, 2 Extreme Triathlons, and a Double Ironman so far! She absolutely loves the water and never misses a chance for a swim, including once completing a 10-mile swim race. 

Recently, she has realized her love of organizing adventures for others after planning trips to Alaska, Iceland, Montana, and Tahiti for groups of friends. Some of these friends then introduced her to Diane with Fit 4 Adventure and now she is excited to be planning and guiding trips as part of the F4A team.

In 2018, she married David Corbett, a 5th generation rancher and she now lives on a working cattle ranch in Texas. She enjoys being a loving dog mom to Divot, a 6 year old Vizsla. She manages the local pool and teaches swim lessons during the summer and is both a lifeguard instructor and certified CPR instructor. While she is a little more settled now, she never misses the chance to travel and never says no to an adventure!

Nick Tilley
Owner/Adventure Guide

Nick started traveling at an early age, with family trips to England, France, the Caribbean and Canada. A childhood obsession with Australia led to a Semester Abroad in Sydney while enrolled at Northwestern University. That experience in turn led to a 3-year trip-around-the-world, which included a year spent living in New Zealand, 3 months backpacking in Southeast Asia, a month in China, a month in Nepal, a year back in Australia, and 4 months traveling through 11 countries in Africa. Talk about ‘adventure’- it.was.EPIC.

Add to that extended-length expeditions through South America and Europe- at 45 countries (and counting…), Nick has developed quite the travel dossier.
His passion for travel and adventure are rivaled only by his enthusiasm for encouraging and empowering others to get out of their comfort zones and pursue their own adventures.

To that end, he has developed an Adventure Travel website (www.BackpackU.com), is an avid adventure travel writer/blogger, and continues to pursue a career in Adventure Travel
Multimedia.

In his spare time, you’ll find Nick running trails at local state parks, hitting the single track on his mountain bike, or hiking along the bluffs that line the Missouri River. Skiing the Rockies, camping in Joshua Tree and the Grand Canyon, backpacking through Glacier- Nick continues to pursue outdoor adventures at every opportunity, and is thrilled and excited to be part of the
Fit4Adventure Team.

Marie Hoag
Adventure Guide

Marie is an outdoor enthusiast who feels most stimulated exploring places on foot, be it a new urban area in pursuit of local cuisine or a new long-distance trail with a fully loaded backpack. Marie’s independent travels began in SouthAmerica after a semester abroad in Valparaiso, Chile. From that launching point, she pursued the W trek in Patagonia, the Salkantay trek in Peru and hikes in Easter Island. Those trips set in motion an interest in backpacking and multi-day hikes that has since progressed into a passion that has takenMarie to over 15 countries and over a thousand miles of trail to date. Her most memorable trips have been solo-hiking the Spanish Pyrenees on the GR11, learning about horse-packing in the Absarokas with NOLS and tackling the mountains of North Carolina on the unfinished Mountains-to-Sea trail. She is first and foremost a hiker but is eager to continue to expand her repertoire through new interests including fly-fishing, kayaking and more horse-packing!        

Currently based in Dallas, Marie works part-time for REI outfitting customers for adventure travel trips. Through a serendipitous series of events, she was hooked in with Diane and Fit4Adventure. She is excited to be a part of the process of organizing trips, scouting new areas and bringing people together, outside for new experiences that impart lifelong memories. Got an idea for an adventure? Odds are she’s in.

Kristin Goss
Adventure Guide

Kristin is a 500-hour RYT Yoga Teacher, Meditation Teacher, Advanced Medical Thai Masseuse and Reiki Guide. 

Before traveling the world while getting certified as an instructor in yoga, meditation, Thai massage and reiki, she had a corporate career that saw her planning and executing corporate hospitality programs at some of the large stand most eclectic events around the globe.  From the Olympic Games in London and Russia to the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee and dozens of locations in-between, the unique experience is what she sought for each of the thousands of guests that were under her care. 

Creating, planning and executing experiences has been at her core ever since.  The desire to mix culture with passion and tie in wellness and a dose of fun has made adventures to locations in and out of the United States a mainstay on so many people’s calendars. 

From spiritually connecting in Bali and India to working with elephants in Thailand to hiking the Inca Trail in Peru to wine and cheese in Italy; her travel, coupled with her vast experience makes Fit 4 Adventure a natural fit. 

Trips to Costa Rica, Santa Fe, and Tulum, are just some of the many adventures on tap to couple some of the best places on earth with spiritual and physical activities that will engage the body, mind and soul.

Emily Goode
Adventure Guide

Emily has had a love of adventure since traveling to Russia at the age of 15.  She has since explored Israel, joined a photo safari in South Africa, backpacked in the Rocky Mountains and Smokey Mountains, and hiked the awe-inspiring Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.  As a cyclist, she has completed several century rides, joined group rides across Texas into Mexico, and has since added tours of Spain and Croatia with Fit 4 Adventure!

Before joining Fit 4 Adventure, she spent several years coordinating remote recruiting teams which gave her the opportunity to work anywhere, even from a tent, on occasion.  She used this freedom to explore many of America's National Parks including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion, Joshua Tree and Death Valley.  Emily discovered she is at her best while connecting with people one on one, and loves the ability to do this while exploring in nature.

Emily has practiced yoga for over 20 years, and has been teaching since 2019.  Her classes are built on showing loving kindness to ourselves and others, and she uses a very gentle approach toward physical practice.  Emily is CPR and Wilderness First Aid certified, and is active as a group facilitator in personal and relational awareness.
 
While researching the type of adventure travel company she dreamed of building, Emily discovered Fit 4 Adventure and joined the team in planning and guiding trips, as well as working to continually optimize our guest's full experience.