David Childs

President

• High voltage research engineer
• Certified ski patroller #659, member PSIA, and rope rescue technician
• Member of Lanesborough Volunteer Fire Department
• Amateur radio operator KA1MUI
• Enjoys telemark skiing, hiking, mountain biking and road biking

Josh Chittenden

• Manager of Berkshire Outfitters, Ski and Bike Mechanic
• Enjoys long canoe paddles through the Adirondacks or going to Moab to mt. bike or rock climb.
• Enjoys traveling to ski destinations that he has never been to.
• Favorite memories include living in Girg’s Skamper at Alpine Meadows California or going to Chamonix and Zermat with some pretty rad dudes.

Blair Mahar

• Science teacher and girls Varsity soccer coach at Hoosac Valley High School
• Produced Purple Mountain Majesty in 1999
• USAF veteran, Desert Storm
• Enjoys mtn. biking, Mtn. Dew, studying WWII history

Matt Barlin

• Math and Science Teacher at McCann Technical High School
• Unexpected night on Jay Peak spurred a mid-life crisis at the age of 27. Moved to the Southern Green Mountains and changed careers
• Skied the Northeast, Southeast, Austrian Alps, Dolomites and Sierra Nevadas but somehow not the Rockies
• Enjoys "whitewater" canoeing on the Hoosic in April, growing fruit trees, hiking with his wife and cat, and turning house construction projects into algebraic equations

Rich Adamczyk

• Stone Mason and Contractor
• Has embarked on countless road trips to world reknowned climbing and ski destinations, including: Moab, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Tetons, all over Colorado, Red Rocks, White Mountains, Adirondacks, Chamonix, Zermatt, Courmayeur, and a real lot of climbing in the Gunks

Tim Herrmann

• Science teacher at Hoosac Valley High School
• Former Appalachian Mountain Club "Croo" member, Bascom Lodge
• Led groups on backpacking trips covering sections of the AT in Massachusetts and Vermont
• All-seasons angler
• Amateur naturalist

Jess Kiernan

• Studying and working as a bartender at Jiminy Peak
• Enjoys all outdoor sports, music and art
• Played as an extra in the movie Taking Woodstock

Jude KoaMaya

• Science teacher at Hoosac Valley High School
• Whitewater raft guide
• Recently returned from a trip around the world doing various volunteer gigs (see blog at: www.koamayatravels.blogspot.com)
• Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal
• Enjoys wandering the mountains in the winter looking for signs of yeti

Heather Linscott

• Fitness teacher at Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School.
• Enjoys backcountry skiing on Mt. Greylock, Vermont, the White Mountains and Colorado. Sea Kayak camping in Sitka Alaska, and around Isle Au Haut, Mount Desert Island, and the Penobscot River in Maine. Also enjoys hiking and backpacking in the White Mountains and the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska.
• Ran the Mt. Greylock-Go-Round for seven years and the Vermont 50 Race for three years (running the last one when she turned 50).
• Other interests include road and mountain biking, white water canoeing and walking in the woods of Savoy with her dog.
• Daughter of Thunderbolt legend Bill Linscott.