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| The Guides
For over 30 years, High Mountain Heli-Skiing
guides have been taking skiers to some of the finest powder
on the continent. Our staff of professional guides is trained
in Outdoor Emergency Care as provided by the National Ski
Patrol, CPR, avalanche hazard forecasting and mountain rescue.
All are active mountaineers who know the terrain and snow
pack intimately. We are the only heli-ski operation with a
full-time meteorologist on staff producing daily weather and
hazard forecasts. Guide school refreshers are conducted annually.
Safety has always been our primary concern at HMH and all
guides meet or exceed the standards set by the Heli-Ski US
Association.
Let the guides with 30+ years of experience show you the adventure
of helicopter skiing.
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| Dave Fett is the Operations
Manager and Lead Guide for HMH. He has been guiding heli-skiing
for us since 1984. His skill and interest in weather
forecasting has also earned him that job for HMH as well.
He is a level 3 avalanche forecaster and is trained in
outdoor emergency care, CPR and mountain rescue. Dave
is passionate about guiding and skiing powder and his
enthusiasm for the sport is unsurpassed. He is right
at home in the snowy mountains of Jackson Hole. When
the snow has melted he works as a carpenter. He also
enjoys traveling to exotic places with his wife Karen
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| Nat Patridge has guided for High
Mountain Heli-Skiing since 2000 and is our director of
snow safety. Nat has been a ski guide since 1993 and
a year-round mountain guide since 1996. He has worked
as an out of bounds ski guide at the Jackson Hole Mountain
Resort since 1993 and was the lead guide during the years
2000-2003. He worked for Doug Coombs at Valdez Heli Ski
Guides during the late 90’s. In summers Nat works
for Exum Mountain Guides where he is a senior guide and
has been guiding for 10 years. In the off seasons he
travels with his wife Tina and they have recently visited
Kenya, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Thailand. |
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| Mike Fisher has been guiding for
HMH since 1983. Mike also has been a guide for Doug Coombs
at Valdez Heli Ski Guides in Alaska for several years
in the mid 90’s. He has trained with JH Mountain
Guides, Exum Mountain Guides and the Mount Rainier Guide
School. He is trained in avalanche forecasting, outdoor
emergency care, CPR and mountain rescue. He is an avid
skier, climber and a mountain bike fanatic in summer.
Mike works as a carpenter when not ski guiding or traveling
with his wife Marcy and son Shea. |
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| Doug Workman is a full
time guide based in Jackson Hole. As well as guiding
for HMH, Doug works for Valdez Heli Ski Guides, Jackson
Hole Mountain Guides, the Alaska Mountaineering School,
and Jackson Hole Ski Patrol. Doug has studied and taught
avalanche safety for many years including working as
an avalanche forecaster for the Utah Avalanche Forecast
Center. Doug's professional training includes the AMGA
ski mountaineering guide course, Level 3 Avalanche, and
Winter Weather Forecasting. Whether working or playing,
Doug can usually be found in the mountains skiing and
climbing. He has skied the Grand Teton five times, Denali
once, and has established first ascents in Pakistan's
Karakoram Mountains, China's Tien Shan, and the Alaska
Range. |
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| Jim Woodmencey has been guiding for HMHS for 20 years
now, starting back in the Winter of 1986-87. “Woody” is
also our staff meteorologist, as well as the “on-air” weather
guy for the local radio stations. He began his guiding
career while in college working his summers guiding and
teaching climbing in the Cascades and also on Mt. McKinley
in Alaska. After finishing his B.S. in meteorology at
Montana State University in 1982, Woody immediately moved
to Jackson, and for 14 summers worked as a Park Service
Climbing Ranger in Grand Teton National Park, which essentially
was a government funded climbing vacation, except for
all the rescues. One of those rescues earned him a trip
to Washington D.C. and a Valor Award from the Department
of the Interior. Woody also spent a winter in Alaska
working as an avalanche forecaster for the state. And
he is now a frequent instructor at avalanche classes
for the American Avalanche Institute. Somewhere in there
he found time to write two books, Reading Weather and
Weather in the Southwest, and raise two kids, and (amazingly
enough) stay married to the same gal for the last 25
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| Marty Vidak began working for HMH
recently in the 05-06 winter. He came to us with an extensive
background of ski guiding and climbing. Marty has been
a Canadian Ski guide and has worked up north for several
heli-ski and snow cat operations. In summers he is a
climbing ranger in Grand Teton National Park since year
2000 where his principal duty is helicopter rescue. He
is also an instructor for the American Avalanche Institute.
He has a wealth of training in avalanche forecasting,
mountain rescue, short haul helicopter rescue, EMT, CPR,
ski guiding and climbing. He feels at home anywhere in
the mountains of North America. |
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High Mountain
Heli-Skiing
Box 173, Teton Village, WY 83025
Phone: (307) 733-3274 Fax: (307) 733-3529
Email: info@heliskijackson.com |
Operating
under permit by the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Equal opportunity service provider.
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