VITAL V

Custom Expeditions for You and Your Private Crew

THE PEOPLE. THE PLAN. THE PURPOSE

The occasion is yours - the expedition is built around it.

If not now, when?

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

VITAL V Expeditions are fully custom adventures designed exclusively for your private crew. Same expert-led training, same audacious destinations, same VITAL model that's built strength and belief for hundreds of adventurers - now shaped entirely around the people you want beside you and the reason you're gathering them.

You bring the people and the purpose. We bring the plan: the training program, the route, the logistics, the guides - every detail built around your crew's goals, timeline, and fitness levels.

How it works

How It Works

The People - Your crew, your way. Friends, family, colleagues, or a milestone group of your choosing, committed to a training and embarking on a fitness adventure.
The Place -Somewhere you've dreamed about but never known how to start.
The Plan - A destination-specific training plan, expert guides, and every logistical detail - accommodations bespoke to your crew, always.
The Purpose - Whatever brought you together; celebration, connection, challenge - becomes the reason you'll remember it

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

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 II: 2-month training commitment. Built to support 3-4 days of surfing. Strong open water swimmer is recommended. No surfing experience required.
Suggested Minimum: 5 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 two week endurance trek from the Caribbean to the Pacific - rural roads, farm paths, and forest trail through 20+ communities.
Fitness Level III: Mandatory training in strength, conditioning, endurance, and trail fueling.
Suggested Minimum: 14 days (11 hiking days, 1 rest day, plus arrival and departure days).
Training: 12 weeks of hiking endurance and strength and 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 II: 3-month training commitment. Built to handle 3–5 days of rigorous hiking.
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 II: 3-month training commitment. Built to handle 3–5 days of rigorous hiking.
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 II: 2-month training commitment. Built to handle 3–5 days of rigorous hiking.
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.
⛩️ 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 II: 3-month training commitment. Built to handle 3–5 days of rigorous hiking.
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.