Owen McAndrew

Owen is a passionate skier, educator, and guide who enjoys the connections built through time in the mountains. Before relocating to New Hampshire's Mount Washington Valley, Owen worked as a ski patroller in Utah's Wasatch Range, and as a coach for the CVA Backcountry program.

• AMGA Ski Guide Course

• AMGA Rock Guide Course

• AMGA Single Pitch Instructor

• Pro Two Avalanche Course

Caitlin Kelly

For the past 9 years Caitlin has called the Adirondack Mountains home. She was a ski patroller at Whiteface Mountain from 2019-2025, and assisted with avalanche mitigation for the Slide Program. She became very invested in her love for backcountry skiing, avalanche education and safety, and community during her time there. With help from Nate Trachte, they founded the Adirondack Community Avalanche Project, or ADK Avy, to create a platform to share weather, snowpack, and avalanche observations, and create more opportunities for education with no avalanche center in the area.

She recently relocated to New Hampshire to teach avalanche courses and volunteer with the Mount Washington Avalanche Center.

She currently holds her AIARE Avalanche 1, AIARE Avalanche Rescue, National Ski Patrol Level 1 for Rescue Personnel, Professional Avalanche Level 1 with AAI, Professional Avalanche Search and Rescue with AAI, and Outdoor Emergency Care certifications.

Alex Bogner

Alex grew up in Woodstock, NY, where he got his start recreating outside, and continued his passion for the outdoors by attending Northern Vermont University - Lyndon, where he studied Mountain Recreation Management. While attending school at Lyndon, Alex began backcountry skiing and participated in his first avalanche courses. Since then, he has gone on to ski and work in many great mountain ranges across the country. Alex is an AIARE Course Instructor, backcountry ski guide, and aspiring commercial pilot who splits his time between the Rockies and New England.

- American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education: Instructor Course

- American Avalanche Institute: Professional Level 1

- National Outdoor Leadership School: Wilderness First Responder/ CPR

- American Mountain Guides Association: Alpine Skills Course

- Utah Avalanche Center: Know Before You Go Program Presenter/On-Snow Course Instructor

- Snowbird Mountain Guides: AIARE Instructor/Catskiing Guide/Ski Guide

- Rocky Mountain Outdoor Center: AIARE instructor/Ski Guide

Izzy Lazarus

Izzy grew up in the heart of NYC but found a passion for climbing when she moved to Vermont for college. After graduating, the road led her west to work for the Colorado Outward Bound School, teaching mountaineering, skiing and rock climbing programs year round. After several years of extended wilderness expeditions, she has found herself in the Tetons to take people on their high alpine adventures. Izzy spent a decade traveling, working and living in the Western US guiding alpine rock climbing, mountaineering and backcountry snowboarding experiences and teaching recreational avalanche education programs.  

These days, Izzy is back in the Northeast working with University of Vermont's Outdoor programs and teaching avalanche education programs and guiding on the side. Izzy has a passion for education, conversation, cooking and mountain adventures.

Certifications

Professional Level 2 Avalanche Course 

AMGA Assistant Rock and Ski Guide

AMGA Apprentice Alpine Guide

Wilderness First Responder & CPR

Matt Doskocil

Matt was born and raised on the east coast. Falling in love with snowboarding and the mountains early on led to an education from Northern Vermont University, with the mountains as his classroom. His interest in the backcountry grew by exploring the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Matt now works as a heliski guide for Majestic Heli Ski Alaska. When not in Alaska, he spends the rest of his year in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

• Wilderness First Responder

• Outdoor Emergency Care

• AIARE Level 1 & 2

• Canadian Avalanche Operations Professional Level 1

• Canadian Ski Guide Level 1

• Heli Ski U.S Member Affiliation

Nathan Fry

• Nate is an Army officer, guide, and educator with expertise on training the military’s mountain warfare community. Over the last two decades, Nate’s efforts to train and educate the Army about the need for mountain warfare resulted in the US involvement in Austria’s Edelweiss Raid ski mountaineering race and the first technical mountain warfare exercises conducted in the US Army since the 10th Mountain was disbanded after World War II. Nate has served as a Mountain Infantry company commander, executive officer and instructor at the Army Mountain Warfare School, and now works as the battalion commander for the Army’s legendary Mountain Battalion.  

  -            AMGA Assistant Alpine Guide, Apprentice Ski and Rock Guide

  -            Pro 2 Avalanche Course graduate

  -            US Army Ranger School and SERE-C graduate

  -            Read about the Edelweiss Raid here