Meet our guides:
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COLLINS - JIM
CONWAY - MIKE
DAVIDSON - ROB
DURNELL - BILL
DYER - MIKE
DUNN - CLARK
FYANS - GREG
HARMS - JEFF
HOKE - JON HUNT
- DAVID MARCHI - KENT
MCBRIDE - TOMMY
MOE - JEREMY
NOBIS - LIZ OAKES
- MIKE OVERCAST
- CHRIS OWENS - MIKE
RHEAM - MILES
SMART - DARWON STONEMAN - LEL
TONE - JOE
VALLONE - MIKE
WELCH
Jim Collins was born in Berkeley California
where he attended the University of California at Berkeley graduating with
a BA from the department of South and Southeast Asian Studies.
Living in Jackson
Hole since 1990, Jim has worked as a Backcountry Guide and PSIA Level III
instructor for the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort since 1992. He has worked
as a coach and guide for many programs there including the race camp with
Pepi Stiegler and Tommy Moe and the Steep and Deep Camps started by Doug
Coombs.
At the end of Jackson's
epic Winter of '96, Jim traveled to Valdez Alaska and began working for
for Valdez Heli-ski Guides, then owned by Doug and Emily Coombs.
In 2001 Jim began guiding for Alaska Rendezvous Guides off and on
over the next 7 years. Late Winter 2008 begins a new guiding position at
Chugach Powder Guides in Girdwood Alaska.
In 2002 Jim began
living part of the year in Moab Utah, where his wife Aimee Barnes operates
the Moab satellite office of Jackson Hole Mountain Guides and works as
a climbing guide for Sawtooth Mountain guides, Jackson Hole Mountain Guides
and as a Backcountry Ski Guide for the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
Jim has also worked
as a divemaster and both a PADI and NAUI Dive instructor for Ocean Divers
International in Cape Town and Koh Samui Divers (now Samui International
Diving School) in Thailand. He has also worked as an instructor in Fiji
and the Solomon Islands.
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