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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.


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 in the off seasons.  
   
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.  
   
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.  
   
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.  
   
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 years.  
   
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.  
   

High Mountain Heli-Skiing
Box 173, Teton Village, WY 83025
Phone: (307) 733-3274 Fax: (307) 733-3529
Email: info@heliskijackson.com

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