Anchorage-based IFMGA Mountain Guide with a lifelong passion for avalanches, teaching, and exploration.

Joe is an Anchorage, Alaska-based IFMGA Mountain Guide. His avalanche passion began as a kid learning to backcountry ski in the Wallowa Mountains in Oregon. Since then his avalanche obsession has become chronic: avoiding avalanches in remote Alaska with friends and clients, teaching avalanche classes, and learning about avalanche topics that have never been written about. When not in Alaska, Joe is guiding in Chamonix, or rock climbing with his dream wife Cathy.