Carol and Dick

Years guiding: 31

Hobbies: Hanging with the Grand Kids

What will you take with you guiding this season: Each other

Jorge

Favorite Timberline trip: Alaska. I am looking forward to the San Juan Alpiner and the Grand Canyon hike.

Years guiding: 16

I love guiding because of my passion fo the outdoors, movement and meeting happy wonderful people.

Hobbies: Cycling and hiking

What will you take with you guiding this season: I will take my spirit of adventure on every trip!

Most extreme sport: Riding my bike cross country in 50 days

Peter

Favorite hike/bike trip: It is hard to beat the Grand Canyon, but Glacier./Waterton is a close 2nd

Years as a Timberline Guide? 3

What experience do you bring to guiding: I have hiked and biclyed extensively and led tours with friends all over North America and Internationally.

Favorite place to visit: Alaska

Favorite hobbie: Photography

Timberline 2013 Trip would you most like to go on: The Columbia River Gorge Hike (One of National Geographic's Top 50)

What advice would you give a NEW customer on a Timberline Tour? Take time to enjoy the moement and appreciate the locaiton you are in

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year? A sense of wonder, awe and amazement!

Kristi

Favorite Timberline Trip: Cycling Glacier and hiking the Grand Canyon

Years guiding: 21

Hobbies: Hiking, skiing, mountain biking and gardening

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year? A good attitude, a sense of adventure and a camera!

Advice? Prepare, so you can just relax and enjoy...

What trip to do in 2013? Any to get me out of the office!! Haha, just kidding. Point Reyes sounds beautiful. As well as any in Colorado... Oh wait! New Mexico too... Oh, and of course the Grand Canyon.

Barb

Favorite food: Vegetables

Favorite movie: The Princess Bride

Favorite Timberline trip: A bike/hike Custom Oregon trip from Portland to Hood River and then to Timberline Lodge.

Hobbies: Running, biking, hiking, reading, hanging with puppies, and friends and photography

Toby

Favorite food: Pizza

Hobbies: Biking, music and hanging with my puppies

Pets: 2 dogs; Sadie (4y/o) and Bowie (2.5 y/o)

Dave

Favorite bike trip: San Juan Mountain of Colorado

Favorite hiking trip: Great Smokey Mountains

Favorite movie: Indiana Jones

Pets: Fenway and Ellsbury (standard poodles and Prince the cat)

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year? ipad

Advice for customers on a Timberline trip: Take advantage of the location you are in and explore!

Kisa

Favorite bike trip: SanJuans Mountains of Colorado, the San Juan Islands of WA and the bike ride around Rainer!.

Favorite hike trip: Grand Canyon!

Favorite movie: Mama Mia

Favorite hobbies: painting, hiking and biking

Advise for customers on a Timberlne trip: Relax and have fun!

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year? A spirit for adventure! Plus water, sunscreen, sun glasses, chap stick!

Dennis

Favorite hike or bike trip: Hiking Yellowstone, Biking the Rogue River Rambler

Favorite movie: Field of Dreams

Wild animal seen most recently: Javelina

Favorite color: Purple

Timberline trip most want to go on: Glacier

Advice for customer on a trip: Be flexible

Steve

Number of years with Timberline: 11

Favorite songs: Over the Rainbow, It's a wonderful life, Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole

Wild animal most recently seen: Chickens (on Kauai!)

Pet: ZWIGGIE-Cinnamon colored teddy bear

Hobbie: Assembling huge jigsaw puzzles (13,600 pieces largest yet)

Nickname: "one who accepts all leftowvers" or "designated eater"

Howard

Favorite song: Great balls of fire by Jerry Lee Lewis

Best book you have read this year: Hunger Games

Favorite hobbie: People watching

Most extreme sport: Aerobatic flying to ultra running

Advice you would give Timberline customers: Be nice to your guides

Julie

Favorite Timberlnehiking and biking trip: Hiking Zions, Angels Lnading and biking New Mexico Classic

Years guiding for Timberline; 5

Favorite movie: Out of Africa, The Usual Suspects

Wild animal seen most recently: Fox, and bald eagle

Favorite food: Ice Cream

Favorite place to visit; Grand Canyon

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year: A sense of adventure

Nola

Number of years guiding with Timberline: 14 years

Most exciting wildlife: Seeing a Cougar cross the road in Walteron, AB

Favorite food: Kakawa Chocolate from Sante Fe or BBQ anything

Hobbies: Drawing and painting

Extreme sports: Ice and rock climbing, 1680 mile self support tour of NM to BC, Hele skiing and trail running

Rick

Number of years guiding with Timberline: 3, althought, I'm a 20 year customer

Favorite food: I eat to ride and ride to eat! I really do love fresh salmon, but in my daily life I thrive on popcorn and bread.

Favorite movie: Groudhog Day, very funny with the underlying message that the positive things you do for people make all the difference.

Favorite Timberline trip: Without a doubt, last years biking Odyssey in the Canadian Maritmes.

Hobbies: Photography, reading, exploring new places and favorite old places like Utah's canyon country.

What you will take with you on each trip you guide this summer: Too many cameras and lenses, just ask anyone who's picked up that bag.

Pets: Currently 2 cats, and fostering 2 other young cats from the Summit County Animal Shelter, where I spend a lot of time volunteering.

Mark

Number of years guiding with Timberline: 2

What experience's do you bring to guiding: Five years as a bike mechanic and several multiple self-supported cycling tours

Please list your favorite places to visit: Anywhere in the mountains

What are your favorite hobbies: Classical guitar

Which of the Timberline Trips in 2013 would you most like to go on?Natchez Trace National Park

What advice would you give a NEW customer on a Timberline Tour? Don't think...just order dessert!

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year? My camera

George

What experience's do you bring to guiding: I have experience as a leader of the Outdoor club, a high school organization that led kids on ski, bike, rafting and hiking trips around Colorado.

Please list your favorite places to visit: Although I love to travel overseas and experience adventure and culture in other countries and have even lived in Australia for a year, I still love being in the Rocky Mountains.

What are your favorite hobbies: Skiing, hiking, biking, fly-fishing, golfing and SCUBA

Which of the Timberline Trips in 2013 would you most like to go on? Glacier NP, Yosemite NP and the Canadian Rockies

What advice would you give a NEW customer on a Timberline Tour? My advice to new customers AND guides is to "focus on the journey and not the destination."

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year? My camera and notebook

Cris

Years guiding: 5

Most recent wildlife sighting: Red fox and a herd of elk!

Hobbies: Hiking, (while identifying wildflowers and taking pictures), cycling, reading, skiing (downhill and xcountry), snowshoe, swim, and any other outdoor adventures I can find time for.

Favorite Timberline trip: The one I'm on (really). Love to meet new guests and reacquainting with vets I've met on past tours. A few highlights: Riding around Carter Lake and flourless chocolate cake overlooking the lake (Rogue River Rambler); the breathtaking, enormous mountains in Canada, incredible views hiking and biking; the stillness, tranquility of Capitol Reef/Escalante hikes; the best of both, hiker-biker in Glacier/Waterton

Things I will take with me this season while guiding: Sense of adventure (it is Timberline Adventures!), sunscreen and snacks

Patty

What experiences do you bring to guiding: 26 yesrs in 6 National Parks working as a National Park Ranger, most recently in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Which of the 2013 Timberline Tours would you like to go on?: Hiking trip in Hawaii

Hobbies: Fly Fishing

What advice would you give a Timberline customer? Enjoy every moment!

What will you take with you on each trip you guide this year? A sense of adventure!