GUIDES
Julie Ann Holder
Owner/Founder/Lead Guide
At home amongst glaciers, and wild places, you would never guess that Julie Ann grew up in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia. In 2011, she found a deep passion for rock climbing and followed it to the mountains of North Carolina, Washington, and Alaska, where her curiosity to explore bigger mountains took hold of her dreams and imagination.
In the decade that followed, Julie Ann immersed herself in the professional worlds of glacier & alpine rock guiding, ski instructing and patrolling, instructing avalanche courses, and eventually ski guiding. She has lived and played in Boone, Bozeman, Haines, and Ashford, and now calls Bellingham, Washington home.
As a guide, she embodies an attitude of curiosity, wonder, and reverence in wild places. Julie Ann is dedicated to creating inclusive spaces within outdoor adventure, that not only evoke feelings of radical acceptance, but also allow for attention to be given to the deeper layers of one’s experience.
Certifications:
AMGA Assistant Ski Guide
Wilderness EMT & Wilderness Medicine Instructor
Avalanche PRO 2 Certified
AIARE Avalanche Course Leader
AMGA Apprentice Alpine & Rock Guide
Leave No Trace Master Educator
Being-ness:
Aerialist, dancer, ultra-runner, and movement enthusiast
Singer, writer, dreamer, fiddle player, & musical being
Plant mom; dog mom; chocolateer
Jodi Redfield
Guide (Alumni Hut Trip)
Jodi grew up on a ranch in Southwest Montana. It was here that the qualities of hard work, patience and integrity were formed. She learned to appreciate the seasons, especially the juxtaposition between a busy harvest and time to slow down in the winter. She savored every moment she got to ski with her twin sister growing up, and came to love the wild places close to the backyard more and more.
Jodi worked many years in the landscape industry, taking the winters to explore the snowiest places around Montana. This led to an interest in avalanches and passion for education that has taken her around the west from remote parts of Montana to the glaciers of the Pacific Northwest. She became a guide to share the mountains with people eager to explore and learn about the world around them. After working in every season, the quiet of winter and accessibility of traveling on snow has become her favorite.
When she's not deep in the backcountry, she's probably enjoying a trail with her dog, scheming up a new recipe or mapping out a 'run' on a ridgeline somewhere.
Certifications:
AMGA Apprentice Ski and Alpine Guide
Avalanche Pro 2
AIARE Course Instructor
AAA Course Instructor
Wilderness First Responder
Leave No Trace Trainer
Being-ness:
Montanan mountain heart, rancher, baker
Ultra runner, skier, weightlifter
Dog mom, coffee connoisseur and lover of horizons
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