Major LAM
Activities and Positions Held:
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2011
Vice President and Climbing School Director
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2010 LAM
President
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2008, 2009
Program Chair
Rick has been backpacking,
skiing, and active in the outdoors for over 40 years . He grew
up in Gunnison, CO, spent most of his youth playing in the
"hills". He taught skiing as an RMSIA/PSIA-certified alpine
instructor for 6 years in the late 1960's early 70's, and has
been loving various flavors of skiing ever since. He especially
loves tele skiing in the back country, and in the summer he's a
rock climber (started when he was 15, stopped for a while and
then took the LAM Climbing School in 2007), avid backpacker,
hiker, and one who loves to play in canyons and mountains. He has especially enjoyed the club's trips to
the slick-rock country of Utah, local hiking and skiing trips,
outings to ascend peaks in Colorado, and Grand Canyon treks.
Grand Canyon Trek 2008, 150-Mile
Canyon
Rick has been organizing and
leading treks in the Grand Canyon since 1993, which
he started doing with a local Boy Scout troop, and where
he was an active leader for 10 years. Rick also loves to be in
the high country above timberline, and especially enjoys the
wildflowers of the NM and CO mountains.
He retired from LANL in
January 2008, where he worked with supercomputers for 24 years,
completing 36 years in the software industry. Rick also enjoys
the spiritual aspects of life and participates in several
community service organizations. Currently Rick works for REI in
Santa Fe as a "camp/climb specialist", where he has been
teaching "Backpacking Basics" and
enjoying helping people.
If you see this man......get to
know him ASAP! Collage by
Jan Studebaker
A few of Rick's Trip
Reports:
Grand Canyon Trek 2009, Huitzil Point
Route into Royal Arch Loop, November 7-14, 2009
Grand Canyon Trek
2008, 150-Mile Canyon, Arizona, 11/8-14/2008
Margy's 10th
Mountain Hut Mountain Bike and Hike Trip, Colorado, 9/23-24/2005
