VITAL X

Custom Expeditions for You and Your Private Crew

Excellence. Expeditions. Experience.

Friends' trip. Family reunion. Milestone birthday. Anniversary. Graduation. Retirement. Corporate retreat. If not now, when?

VITAL X is how you turn "we should do that someday" into a departure date.

You bring the crew - 6 to 12 people who belong together on a trail. We bring experienced expedition-building: the training program, the expert guides, the routes we've walked, and accommodations chosen with great care.

How it works

You choose the place. Somewhere you've dreamed about but never known how to start.

We build the program. A destination-specific training plan, expert guides, and every logistical detail — accommodations bespoke to your crew, always.

You show up ready. Not because you were fearless. Because you trained.

Book 9–12 months out for the widest range of dates and accommodations.

Every VITAL X is reserved exclusively for your crew until another group claims the date — so the earlier you commit, the more it stays entirely yours.

The following are destinations vetted and personally recommended by Libby.

Where Your Crew Could Go

🌊 Costa Rica: Surf & Yoga — Nosara

Daily surf sessions paired with jungle and beach yoga in one of the world's five Blue Zones.
Fitness Level: Strong open water swimmer. No surfing experience required.
Suggested Minimum: 6 days on the ground for 3–4 days surfing one of the world's most consistent breaks, plus recovery and rest built in.
Training: 8 weeks of surf-specific strength and mobility work, so your legs, shoulders, and balance are ready before you paddle out.
Stay: A beachfront retreat chosen for how it lets you disconnect from noise and reconnect with each other — bespoke and defined by us.
🥾 Costa Rica: The Camino de Costa Rica

A point-to-point trek from the Caribbean to the Pacific — rural roads, farm paths, and forest trail through 20+ communities.
Fitness Level: No technical skills required, just solid fitness and a great attitude.
Suggested Minimum: 14 days (11 hiking days, 1 rest day, plus arrival and departure days).
Training: 12 weeks of hiking endurance and back-to-back-day conditioning — this is a distance trip, and your training reflects it.
Stay: Community-based lodging along the route, arranged to support the villages you walk through — bespoke and defined by us.
🐻 Alaska: Kenai Peninsula

Multi-sport days — hiking, sea kayaking, and fishing across Resurrection Bay and the surrounding wilderness.
Fitness Level: Moderate fitness; wild days balanced by cozy nights.
Suggested Minimum: 5+ days. Training: 12 weeks building hiking stamina and cold-water/on-water confidence before you're on the bay.
Stay: A waterfront retreat with a private beach and an onsite sauna and cold plunge that somehow always becomes everyone's favorite part — bespoke and defined by us.
🏜️ Moab, Utah: Desert Canyon Adventure

Canyon hiking with light scrambling and creek crossings through water-sculpted sandstone, plus ridgeline hikes above the Colorado River.
Fitness Level: Intermediate fitness.
Suggested Minimum: 3 nights–4 days.
Training: 12 weeks of leg strength, balance, and scrambling confidence.
Stay: From wonderful to luxury, matched to how your crew wants to land at the end of the day — bespoke and defined by us.
🎨 Palm Springs: Heart and Art

Expert-led hikes scaled to your group's ability, from an easy palm-oasis canyon walk to 8–9 mile ridgeline routes, paired with private studio visits with working desert artists.
Fitness Level: Accessible to a range of fitness backgrounds.
Suggested Minimum: 4 days / 3 nights.
Training: 12 weeks of hiking prep — this trip meets you where you are and builds from there.
Stay: A mineral springs retreat with private soaking tubs, bespoke and defined by us.
🌺 Kauai, Hawaii

Coastal cliff hiking along the Na Pali Coast, lush valleys and exposed sea-cliff sections, paired with ridge trails above Waimea Canyon, the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific."
Fitness Level: Moderate to strenuous, with humidity and heat as real factors. If your crew wants a lush, tropical departure from the desert and mountain trips above, this is it.
Suggested Minimum: 5 days.
Training: 12 weeks of hiking endurance with attention to heat and humidity conditioning.
Stay: A garden-island retreat, bespoke and defined by us.
⛩️ Japan: Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage

Village-to-village trekking on the Nakahechi Route, one of only two pilgrimage trails in the world with UNESCO World Heritage status alongside Spain's Camino de Santiago. Forested mountain trail and stone stairways connecting the three Grand Shrines of Kumano.
Fitness Level: Moderate fitness; well-marked and steeped in over a thousand years of history.
Suggested Minimum: 6 days walking, with overnight stays in mountain villages and onsen towns along the way.
Training: 12 weeks of hiking endurance and stair/incline conditioning to meet the trail's daily climbs.
Stay: Traditional ryokan and onsen lodging in villages along the route, bespoke and defined by us — right down to the hot spring waiting at the end of each day.