About the Winter Program team
The Guide Squad!
Dan, Evan, Tom, Matt, Merijn, Rijan, Anne, James, Amber, Dave, Matt, Coralie, Will, Jess, Will, Simon & Oli. Noted absences Ange, Paul, Simon W and Gareth.
Your Leaders for the Festival and this program are…
Ange
Dynamic leader and herder of cats, Ange is the technical director and main boss for rope skills at Fieldcraft. Mountaineer, climber and backcountry skier. The creds list for this seasoned outdoor educator and guide would run off the page. Qualified & Experienced!!!
JAMES (on left)
ABCF Field co-ordination
All round weapon. When the proverbial hits the proverbial, we have this guy in the swiss army knife of skills. The main focus is to extract the best coffee you’ll likely ever have in the backcountry. It’s serious. Search, Rescue + coffee = life! Let’s just keep the creds to ‘Military precision’.
Jess
Australian Backcountry Festival Ski Tour Program 2IC.
MSC field observer, valley local, and general ‘turn-up’ person, Jess will helps clarify, NZARM-5 Avalanche Risk Management Cert 5 professional, freshly minted Alpine Wilderness First Aid and official carrier of warm pocket ravioli.
Simon
Australian Backcountry Festival Co-Founder and Ski Tour Program Director.
Valley Local (now part time). Adventure community organiser, and festival ‘camp-dad’. Climbing and skiing the Vic Alps since 1996. Mkaer of maps, MSC Founder, Backcountry Festival Co-Founder, Victorian Backcountry Companion Author. CAA OPS1 Avalanche Professional.