Carson Byrne
Carson grew up in the mountains outside of SLC, UT and was on skis before she turned 2! Her personal and professional life are a wonderful tetrus game fitting together adventure time … View Details
Our Mountain Guides
The safety, instructional quality, and overall success of our mountain adventures rest entirely on the caliber of our world class guide staff. Timberline Mountain Guides is owned, operated, and staffed exclusively by professional mountain guides who champion deep education, wilderness risk management, and land stewardship.
As an officially accredited program of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA), our team members have received rigorous training across alpine, rock, and ski disciplines.
Read through our individual team bios to learn more about our guides’ deep operational heritage in the Cascades and global expedition history.
Colin Snider
Colin grew up climbing on the sandstone of southeastern Kentucky and skiing the small icy hills of southern Indiana, and got his first taste of real mountains in southwestern Montana … View Details
Wesley Clint Jones
Wesley Jones—who also goes by Clint—grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where his passion for the outdoors began early and led him to earn a BA in Geological Sciences from Indiana … View Details
Dara Kelly
Dara is Program Director at Timberline Mountain Guides. Her guiding career began in Vermont’s Green Mountains, where from a young age she sought challenge and adventure in remote spaces. She … View Details
Benjamin Lim
Ben grew up in Southern California where he started rock climbing in 2012. He’s lived a life as a full-time climber on the road and a winter ski bum, but … View Details
Kelly Carroll
Kelly Carroll grew up skiing in Stowe, VT and has been chasing winter ever since. She currently spends her year skiing between Jackson, WY in the Winter, Oregon in the … View Details
Ben Weaver
Ben Weaver lives in Hood River, Oregon and works as a ski guide and avalanche educator in Oregon and California throughout the winter. In the Spring and Summer he splits … View Details
Theresa Silveyra
Theresa grew up in Southwest Washington with the Cascade volcanoes in her backyard, but it wasn’t until finishing grad school that she started climbing and fell in love with being … View Details
Alli Miles
Alli started backcountry skiing in 2012, shortly after moving to Oregon. She soon began skiing the Cascade volcanoes, and springtime in the PNW is still her favorite part of ski … View Details
Zack Smith
Zack “Bones” Smith grew up in Ashland, OR and was introduced to rock climbing by his dad when he was 13 in Yosemite using webbing for a harness, hip belays, … View Details
Koby Yudkin
Koby grew up and found his love for the outdoors in Oregon. In highschool, he joined a student run mountaineering club where he discovered his passion for climbing, skiing, and … View Details
Scott Becker
Scott grew up rafting, climbing, and skiing in Hood River, Oregon. Since his first climbing experiences in the 90’s, climbing has taken Scott to many summits of the Cascades and … View Details
Elliott Reed
Elliott started climbing and working in the outdoors in Missoula where he attended the University of Montana, earning a degree in Natural Resource Conservation with a minor in Wilderness Studies. … View Details
Lucas Novak
Originally from the greater ranges of Central New Jersey, Lucas has followed a path that led him to the volcanic promised land of Central Oregon. Somewhere in between he completed … View Details
Miles Britton
Miles grew up along the central California coast, without a choice but to be exposed to hiking, backpacking, and rock climbing as a child. As a teenager, Miles began the … View Details
Adam Snyder
Adam moved to Oregon from his home town of Allentown, Pennsylvania to pursue a career in mountain guiding. Adam studied Political Science at Kutztown University in Pennyslvania before working as … View Details
Chris Marshall
Chris Marshall has been guiding and instructing in the mountains since 2006. He earned a BA in Wilderness Leadership and Geography from Prescott College in 2005, and a MA in Experiential … View Details
Max Tepfer
Max first started venturing into the hills around Oregon as a junior in high school and was completely addicted by the time he got to college in 2005. After that, … View Details
Aaron Hartz
Aaron was born and raised in Western Oregon and started skiing as a kid. After being introduced to backcountry skiing, he started climbing and skiing the Cascade Volcanoes to prolong … View Details
Brian Campbell
Brian Campbell grew up in Park City, Utah skiing and recreating in the outdoors all over the Western United States. In 2006 he moved to Oregon where he attended school … View Details
Cliff Agocs
Cliff began winter backpacking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire when he was 11 years old. These annual experiences laid the foundation of every mountain adventure he’s had since. … View Details
Ben Randall
Ben has climbed extensively across the North American continent, and is at home on the steep walls of Smith Rock and running morning ski laps on Tumalo Butte. In the off … View Details
Pete Keane
Pete is Director of Timberline Mountain Guides, Inc. and has been climbing since 1982 and guiding since 1989. Pete is a member of the Instructor Pool of the American Mountain … View Details