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Jackson, WY

Rob lives in Jackson, Wyoming where he is most often found guiding or playing in the Tetons. Rob's personal highlights include being the third American to summit Mt Everest without supplemental oxygen and many steep ski descents in the Tetons, Sierras, Valdez, Alaska Range, Haines, Bella Coola, La Grave and Chamonix. Rob is part owner and chief guide for Jackson Hole Mountain Guides. Rob also works as a lead guide for Jackson Hole Mountain resort, is a fully certified UIAGM / IFMGA mountain guide, and a Level 1, 2 & 3 avalanche instructor. He is the Technical director for the American Mountain Guides Association, where he is in charge of the training and certification of all mountain guides seeking education and certification from the AMGA. Last but not least, Rob also works as a lead guide for the film company, Teton Gravity Research. Rob's guiding highlights include guiding clients to the summit of Broad Peak in Pakistan, helicopter skiing in Valdez, alpine climbing throughout the Alps, ascending desert towers around Moab and the vast walls of Red Rocks. He has been spending considerable time in the French Alps these past few years, testing himself on the steeps around Chamonix and la Grave. When not on the boards, Rob can most often be found in the Canyonlands or Red Rock, working the upper half of his body on the splitter cracks.

On a ski mountaineering trip around Valdez this past spring we were digging in and setting up snow shelters. The snow was what you would expect in Alaska in the spring, super dense and very consolidated. There were two of us in the group with G3 shovels. Every time we let our shovels sit idle, someone would grab them. It was clear that the G3 shovel was the one tool able to deal with the Alaska spring snow conditions.

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