Zack Wentz is a Seattle-based mountain guide, having worked in Washington full-time as a mountain guide since 2018 & is one of the country’s best split-board guides. As one of less than 15 total AMGA-certified Split-board Guides, he designed the curriculum for the Washington Split-boarding Courses we offer at BCAG, and is a leader in the split-board community in Washington. He has a numerous steep split-boarding descents in Alaska, Canada, Washington, Oregon & France and full split-board descent of the East Face of Aoraki/Mt. Cook in New Zealand, which has been skied less than 100 times, He also studied Snow Avalanche Forecasting as a part of his Forestry degree at UBC Vancouver, and believes having both a thorough experiential & academic knowledge of avalanche risk management makes for the best understanding of this complex hazard.Zack is pursuing full IFMGA Mountain guide certification. You’ll see him on both winter & summer programs with BCAG.
AMGA certified Splitboard Guide and Rock Guide, Apprentice Alpine Guide
AIARE Course Leader
