About Us
Travesía Boreal designs custom expeditions for small groups of travelers who want something real. No fixed itineraries, no crowds, no cookie-cutter plans.
A journey built entirely around you
Your pace, your destination, the places you've always dreamt of.
We are led by certified wilderness guides and naturalists who know these places first hand – we don't plan from a map, we plan from experience. Trained in wilderness emergency medicine, and with years both planning and running expeditions, we operate where other tours don't go.
We believe the journey itself is the destination. Travesía Boreal exists for those who want to drink it all in.
By adventurers, for adventurers.
The landscape, the silence, the stories, the unexpected. That is what we build every expedition around.
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, Seb loves helping travelers slow down and notice what's around them: the landscape, the wildlife, the deep cultural history woven into wild places. He 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