Bee-yes, along with everywhere else on the Inyo.(save the whitney zone)

I am troubled by the aggressively anti-guide posting. In reality, the guide services provide a very significant service to the rest of the hiking community, even the ones who are not partaking of the service directly. To wit:

1. The guide services have a hugely smaller impact footprint than private trips: the guides are repeat customers, so they have a strong incentive not to cause impact. They make sure their clients are doing the right thing, and help them when neccessary.

2. My experience is that guides end up being "vacuum cleaners" for litter wherever they go. They just pick things up as a matter of course. Even micro-litter that many of us hardly notice.

3. Although not paid to do so, my experience is that guides invariably interact and inform others in the area, who have questions. "is this the best way", for example. I've also seen them, as a matter of course, help people who were sketched, inviting them onto ropes, advising them as to technique, giving them food and water, etc.

4. The guides are the first-line SAR folks on the scene of an accident. They have advanced first aid training, and are assertively willing to get involved. When a guide is on the hill, the mountain is safer.

In fact, I assert that the community would be better off if guides were allowed to guide on the main trail. They would be one more element of a backup system to those who get into trouble.