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Trevor Bergstrom

Position: Shop Manager/ Trip Leader
Hometown: Bainbridge Island, WA
Grade/Major: Senior- Mechanical Engineering Technology
Career Goals: Invent time travel. Captain the Starship Enterprise. Just small stuff like that.
Favorite Food: Seafood
Favorite Outdoor Activities:
Back-country Skiing
Kayaking
Mountain Biking
Road Biking
Mountaineering
Being outside
Craziest Outdoor Experience: Spending a night in a snow cave on Mt. Rainier during a ski trip. On top of that, the foxes ate all our food.
Quote to live by:  ""Live by your own quote, make your own adventure, experience your own stories. Not someone else's. Vicariously is no way to live." ~ Trevor Bergstrom

Eddie Roberts

EddiePosition: Event Programmer
Hometown: Lake Sammamish, WA
Grade/Major: Junior, Tourism
Career Goals: Continue to operate a wakeboard school and manage a Watersports complex
Favorite Food: Thai
Favorite Outdoor Activities: Wakeboarding
Craziest Outdoor Experience:
Surviving a wind storm on the Columbia River near Vantage. I was driving a boat full of people back to Getty's Cove and the water was so rough that swells were peaking above the height of the wakeboard tower. Negotiating the river and getting the boat back safe was definitely the most intense experience I've endured!
Quote to live by: "Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend." -Bruce Lee
 

Lance Larsen

LancePosition: Shop Attendant/Trip Leader
Hometown: Kent, WA
Grade/Major:  Sophomore/Undecided
Career Goals: Work outside and catch a record size fish
Favorite Food: Meat and spinach
Favorite Outdoor Activities:

  1. Fly Fishing
  2. Snowboarding
  3. 2 way tie between tree climbing and log running

Craziest Outdoor Experience:
Walking across a semi frozen pond… The ice was breaking
Quote to live by:  “In it to win it.”

 

Marika Clymer

Marika ClymerPosition: Shop Attendant, Raft Guide
Hometown: Everett, WA
Grade/Major: First year (sophomore as of Fall 2012), Majors Philosophy and Elementary Education
Career Goals: To teach non-traditional methods of schooling to K-12 students.
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Outdoor Activities: Fishing, walking
Craziest Outdoor Experience: I've climbed some pretty mean trees.
Quote to live by: “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”- John Lennon.
 

Devin Dykes

Devin DykesPosition: Shop Attendant/Trip Leader
Hometown: LaCenter, WA
Grade/ Major: Junior/ Environmental Studies
Favorite Food: Super Burrito from Taco Chalitos
Favorite Outdoor Activities:

  1. Backpacking
  2. Skiing
  3. Biking

Craziest Outdoor Experience: Climbing into sheep lake in the 7 Devils wilderness during a snowstorm and losing our route. But after finally reaching the lake got to see a rad moon rise.
"I don't live by quotes."  Trevor Bergstrom
 

 

Danielle Richards

Position: Trip Leader/Shop Attendant
Grade/Major: Junior/Construction Management
Career Goals: To work for a commercial general contractor right out of college
Favorite Food: Mashed potatoes
Favorite Outdoor Activity: 1. Backpacking 2. Hiking 3. Rock Climbing
Quote to live by: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" -Dr. Seuss

 

Riley Kirchmeier

Position: Trip Leader/Shop Attendant

Hometown: Olympia, Washington

Grade/Major: Junior, Dietetics 

Career Goals: To teach, motivate, and inspire others to love themselves and meet their goals, while spreading the word of the importance of a healthful diet and exercise.

Favorite Food: Mangoes!

Favorite Outdoor Activities:
1.            Biking
2.            Skiing
3.            Going on awesome adventures to find awesome views
Craziest Outdoor Experience:
 I rode my bike to San Fran by myself, met some crazy people with some wild stories, saw a bear and two cubs run across a road 10 feet in front of me and woke up to a raccoon gnawing on my bivy sack where my head was.
Quote to live by:
 "Where there is difficulty, there is opportunity.”