Matt Schonwald

Matt is the founder of BC Adventure Guides, a certified Ski Guide with the American Mountain Guides Association and an author of 4 guidebooks dedicated to perfecting his craft. He began skiing as disco was dying at New York’s Hunter … Read More

Ian Nicholson

The first thing you will quickly realize about Ian is his never-ending stoke to be out sharing the mountains with people, whether on rock, on mountain tops, or sliding down them on skis. Most notably his passion to be out … Read More

Pablo Puruncajas

Pablo fell in love with the mountains at a young age while climbing Ecuador’s volcanoes with his family-owned mountain guide company. He has been guiding in the Andes since 1999 and has been guiding for the past six years in … Read More

Juliana Garcia

Juliana has been mountaineering in Ecuador since she was 15 years old, accomplishing much in her career. She has climbed mountains and walls in the Andes, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, as well as in Pakistan, Alaska, Greenland, the United States and … Read More

Brigit Anderson

Brigit is originally from New England and moved to Snoqualmie Pass in 2012 to be closer to the mountains. Brigit is currently working towards a master’s degree in Sustainable Mountain Development from the Center for Mountain Studies in Perth, Scotland … Read More

Sam Siemens-Luthy

Sam grew up in the mountains of Washington and California, making numerous summer and winter backcountry trips into the Olympics, Cascades and Sierras. From these experiences he developed a deep passion for accessing remote and wild places. In addition to … Read More

Charlie Rubin

Charlie was raised in the vertical concrete landscape of NYC before making an exit to the University of Montana with an Earth and environmental sciences degree.  As vagabond alpinist, he climbed in Yosemite, western United States, British Columbia, Canadian Rockies, … Read More

Connor Chilcott

Connor grew up in around the ocean and rocks of Southern California. After a few years of rock climbing he was introduced to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. His love for the mountains was realized following a winter ascent … Read More

Cheri Higman

Cheri grew up hiking along the Mount Loop in the Washington Cascades. She fell in love with climbing and exploring high places in 2007. Once a splitboarder, and now skier, Cheri finds her passion instructing avalanche courses and helping folks … Read More

Steven Kunnen

Steve is 100% PNW, born and raised in Washington to immigrants who wanted their kids to experience its culture and to adventure in the natural environment. By seven years old his mother put him on a ski bus and trodded … Read More

Andrew Richardson

Andrew Richardson has a secret weakness (he is from California but we forgive him…), actually snow and he can’t get enough of it. Unable to resist the snowy mountains, Andrew abandoned a city job to pursue a career in the … Read More