TRAVESÍA BOREAL
Expeditions in wild places, designed around you.
The landscape, the silence, the unexpected. That's what we build every expedition around.
These are the places we work in.
Travesía Boreal was born out of a simple idea: that the best expeditions are built from real experience, not brochures.
The world is full of wild places worth showing people. But getting there safely, responsibly, and in a way that actually does them justice — that takes someone who knows them firsthand.
Custom trips for small groups. No fixed itineraries, no crowds, no cutting corners.
Sebastián Velasco
Founder and Lead Guide
Born and raised in Mexico City, but found his footing in the vast river systems and open skies of northern Ontario — spending his breaks from uni leading canoe expeditions through the backcountry while studying engineering physics.
Thousands of kilometers of river have a way of teaching you things no classroom can: about resilience, about reading a landscape, and about yourself. Years of guiding youth expeditions shaped something that still drives him today — a belief that the outdoors is the finest classroom there is.
He brings that same curiosity to every expedition he leads. A passionate photographer and storyteller, he loves helping travelers slow down and notice what's around them: the landscape, the wildlife, the deep cultural history woven into wild places. Seb guides with warmth, curiosity, and the quiet conviction that the whole point of an expedition is coming home a little different than how you left.
Wilderness First Responder · Swiftwater Rescue Technician · Bilingual EN/ES