Our Staff and Team

Mountain Design (Thailand) is an adventure and excursion tour operation and travel agency, we are running the tourism business under Tour license No.23/0967. We are using tourist guide license in every trips and courses. We also provide our qualified instructor for our high standard of special outdoor adventure activities and programs.

What kind of Mountain Biking trips in Chiang Mai? Who can join the trips?

The mountain biking in Chiang Mai are many difficulty biking trip you can select to suit to your fitness and biking abilities. We'd provied diffirent levels can be easy as biking in the village to see the cultures natures and local's life style, also can be more difficult as single trails trips, downhill or multi-day of mountain biking over the mountain. We offers only Private biking trips, so it means that everyon can enjoy the trip as your requested.

What king of bikes do you using in the trips?

We'r using the high quality of mountain bikes 24 gears, Giant, Mongoose, GT, and more famous mountain bike brand including helmet to our guests.

Children can join the tours?

Our private custom trip can be arrange to suit to your family and group, normally children under 13 not recommended to be in the tough level biking tours.

What is including in the mountain biking tours?

Nomally the tours wil including mountain bike, helmet, drinking water, lunch (Boxes or remote restaurant depend on the area), Experienced guide, insurance and other services on requested such as accommodation.

I'm an experienced mountain biker! Can I bring my own bike to join the tours and how much can I get discount?

If you are an experienced mountain biker, it is seem to be a good idea to bring you own bike in the tours to get more fun and more enjoyable trips. But it is not big effected to the tour's cost.

How many people in the tours?

Normally we are running the private mountain biking trip on requested, it is depend on you group size, which can be minimum of 2 persons up to 20 people.

What is booking condition of the tours?

Our policy is the client have to pay deposit 50% of the tour fee after confirmed the tours, cancelation booking 14 days before tour start will get 30% refund. If we cancel the tours you will get fully 50% refund.

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Mountain Design (Thailand) has been running quality courses since 2000. Our safety record is outstanding, and we have never had a fatal accident or maiming injury incurred by either our participants or our staff.

Each trip is accompanied by at least 1 Tourist guide licence,1 instructor and 1 assistant Instructor, equalling a minimum participant to instructor ratio of 6 to 1. In most cases our Assistant Instructors are Thai Nationals who bring a vital cultural and linguistic element to the overall experience. They are well versed in the identification of local flora and fauna. The Assistant Instructors have CPR and Wilderness First Aid training. Mountain Design (Thailand) Instructors are a mix of highly qualified national and foreign national outdoor educators, They must have a minimum of CPR, First Aid and Wilderness First Responder training, extensive experience in leading expeditions and outdoor education.
Specifically related to injuries and evacuations, Our instructors are normally equipped to respond to most of the typical, but not necessarily frequent, incidents such as sprains, minor cuts, gastro-intestinal tract problems, infected blisters and dehydration related problems. However when a situation requires treatment from a physician, the participants will be evacuated by an instructor either on foot, stretcher, 4x4 or any kind of vehicles to the nearest hospital with special treatment due to our accident insurance covered.
The following is a brief description of each certification that our instructors have in order to provide a safe and adventure filled experience for participants.

First Aid Course: Due to the remote nature of our trips our lead field staffs are required to have successfully completed the First Aid Course. Certification from Hospital.

Instructor Scheme (Rock climbing and abseiling) - Australian School of Mountaineering
Our lead Instructor has successfully completed a course in Instructor Scheme (Rock climbing and abseiling) covers many aspects of Abseiling and rock climbing Activities and concludes with a thorough assessment of topic including Mountain Navigation Course, Advance Abseil / Improvised Rope Rescue Course, Accident Response & Mountain First Aid Seminar, Rock climbing Supervisor seminar, Technical Skills & Group Management seminar, Aid Climbing & Big Wall Technique.

Abseiling Leadership and Instruction - Australian School of Mountaineering
Our lead Instructor has successfully completed a course in Abseiling Leadership and Instruction covers many aspects of Abseiling leadership and concludes with a thorough assessment of topic including Abseiling, Ethics, Equipment, Site selection, Rigging, Risk Management, Teaching Methods, Technical Ability, Emergency Procedures and rescue.

Climbing Leader Course - Outland Expeditions Australia
Our lead Instructor has successfully completed a course in Climbing Leader Course: Topic including Rock climbing Techniques, Equipment, anchors, rigging, simple problem solving, vertical rescue, incident management, Cliff management.

Rapid Improvement Course - Canoe Kayak Education Australia (CKEA)
Our Instructor has completed a Rapid Improvement Course. And has many experiences in Canoe and Kayaking in many areas in Australia and Thailand.

Navigation Education - Bushsports Australia
Our instructors are also trained in Navigation Education, technical skills, Orientation by using GPS Technology, Map Reading, Compass skills and feature-based navigation.

PADI Dive Master :
While only our PADI Instructor conducts the SCUBA training section of our courses, Our instructors are trained and certified SCUBA divers. This helps them become more proficient at a number of water activities.

Some Comments and Feeling...

I sincerely want to thank you and appreciate all your facilitation, advice, safety and conduct of the adventure tour. I have been to Thailand many times, this time your game me a different perspective of Thailand Chiang mai. I really enjoy your guided us in both the mountain bike downhill and also the national parks and water fall. It was thrilling challenge in Thailand
Sundram
(Safra Adventure Singapore)

"It was certainly a great trip even though we had some massive climbs. What I want to recap is the Enjoyable great downhills, single track routes, nothing beats chiangmai. The beer and wet towels at the end was also certainly refreshing. massages was very satisfying after the rides. The food is simply fantastic.I think I actually gain weight from all that eating. Hahahah. Beyond expectations for me. Would defi look forward to another exciting overseas ride with the 5-0s "
Quentin Goh
Ace-tone Solutions

"Thanks Chris for arranging this trip and thanks everyone else for the company!
I have been looking forward to my first CM trip since i booked tickets in July and I must say it lived up to my expectations in every way! The rides could not have been much more varying. Some climbs where tough of course. But perfect does not excist and we where not on a downhill camp. I think it all contained what makes a man happy, hard work uphill followed by adrenalin boosting downhill, a good lunch in the nature followed by another round of up/down. The golden drops of beer at the end of the ride, with the satisfaction of having completed without too much pain or injuries (for most of us anyway). Hot spring and/or massage, then dinner with more beer! "
Lars

"Thanks so much Chris, for organising this wonderful experience. It must have been tough to cater to such a wide range of individuals, skills and preference. But you managed to tie everything together nicely.
For me, this was one of my most unique holidays ... I did not bring my Blackberry (there were tons of emails waiting for me at the end, but that's another story), camping with 10 other guys in the same room, and of course the AWESOME rides.
Also, the jokes, camaraderie and friendship built along the way was priceless. Not to mention the tasty local cuisine ... I am still searching for Cream of Sum Yung Guy.
Btw, my Scott Spark (or what was left of it) is in the workshop now. Hopefully I don't have to replace the frame again.
Thanks again Chris, and to all CM09ers for the memories."
Chingsoo

"so just want to say how much i enjoyed meeting everyone on this trip and chris thank you for doing such a great job on organizing this amazing adventure! i want to apologize if i was too brash or grumpy or whiny or anything else for that matter (on day 2) especially. i guess between selling my house, being sick and nervous about being around 15 extremely handsome, articulate, fit men - well, i was beside myself at times - ESPECIALLY WHEN CHING SUE WORE HIS HAIRNET AND NO SHIRT - what is a girl to do?"
Michelle

"it was a blast of a trip, I take my hat off to all those who got whacked on the trip but got on with the ride, even though on the mend,"
Victor

"CM09 was a super experience for me... dislocated finger excepted.  Thanks for making the opportunity available and I wouldn’t hesitate to sign up for next year given the chance again! What can we say – pure MTB paradise and the organisation was nearly flawless! I enjoyed every day including the MOAC and especially the MOAD. We only get better by challenging ourselves in a wide variety of conditions and no doubt about it CM has it all!
In my opinion we were all riding with more confidence as the days wore on and the pace only got faster..."
Mike