Guiding Credentials
Guiding and Teaching Credentials
- AMGA certified rock instructor
- AMGA certified single pitch instructor
- AMGA certified top rope site manager
- AMGA rock instructor course – North Conway
- AIRE level I avalanche course
- Wilderness First Responder
Guiding and Teaching Experience
- 31 years of experience guiding and instructing in alpine, rock and ice terrain
- 13 years as Director of Climbing at Proctor Academy
- 6 years as Director of Climbing at the Holderness School
- 2 summers at Swiss Challenge, Zermatt, Switzerland
- Multiple summers guiding in the Wind River mountains for the Skinner Brothers
- 3 years guiding rock and ice for the EMS Climbing School in North Conway
Climbing Experience
- 36 years of climbing experience
- Alpine Climbing - Ascents in the United States and Switzerland with ascents of routes like the Schmidt Route on the North Face of the Matterhorn and the Welzenbach Route on the North Face of the Briethorn.
- Alpine ascents in the Tetons, Wind Rivers, and the Cascades.
- Rock Routes - Trad and sport routes to 5.11a
Many routes, including multi-day routes, in places like Yosemite Valley, Canyonlands, the Adirondacks, Acadia, New Hampshire, and Baja, Mexico.
- Ice Routes - Ascents up to WI 5 and M3 Routes like Drop Line, Repentance, Ragnarok, Positive Thinking
- Ski Experience
- 50+ years of skiing experience
- Middlebury College Ski Team 1977-78
- The Haute Route, March 2005
Other Credentials and Achievements
- Professional member of the AMGA
- Member of the American Alpine Club
- Member Mountain Rescue Service
- Trustee at Proctor Academy
- Doctorate in Education form the University of Pennsylvania
- MA from Dartmouth College
- BA from Middlebury College
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