Emily Johnston is an emergency medicine physician with over 30 years of experience as a mountain guide, whitewater guide and professional ski patroller. She has been developing curriculum and teaching tactical, austere, and wilderness medicine, cold environment medicine/operations, technical rescue skills, and avalanche education for decades. She trains and handles service dogs for specialized tasks. Based in the Tetons and Cascades, she guides on remote mountains and rivers, is a contractor for the US military, provides medical direction/instruction, and seeks new challenges around the planet.

Max Bond has guided teams on Mt. Everest, Ama Dablam, Manaslu, Mera Peak, Denali, in Ecuador, and throughout the Pacific Northwest with personal expeditions to South America, and remote SE Alaska, Iceland, France, and the Canadian Rockies. Max is a ski guide, avalanche educator, snowboard Instructor, Wilderness First Responder, AAA Pro-2, Leave No Trace trainer, and holds AMGA Ski and Alpine Guide Course certificates. He earned a degree in glaciology and climate science from Dartmouth College and has worked in the outdoor industry since 2014.

Over the past two decades Xander has developed a diverse set of skills and experiences in remote medicine, guiding whitewater and rock, EMS, technical rescue, behavioral therapy, firefighting, and international sustainable development. His remote field work started in 2005 in Angola, Africa and has taken him above the Arctic Circle and across the Americas. With primary roles of expedition guiding, helitack wildland fire, training remote field staff, project management and logistics. Trainings include: Remote EMT, EMT-B, Medical Care Person in Charge (maritime), Pro White Water Rescue, FEMA ICS, American Avalanche Association L2, Health & Safety Institute (Instructor), Seattle Fire Medic 2 (Instructor), AIDA2 Freediving,

Xander has been fulltime in the PNW since Spring of 2024 and is in his first year with the Seattle Fire Department.

Pat Riffie, a native Idahoan, has over a decade of experience as a river ranger, whitewater guide, ski patroller doing mountain EMS, avalanche hazard mitigation, remote logistics, and teaching high angle rope rescue. He's been a firefighter in Yakima, WA since 2015, currently a lieutenant, tech rescue team member, and tech rescue instructor. In his spare time he's been a rescue kayaker on a first descent in the Himalayas, completed 100 mile ski traverses in Alaska, and ski mountaineered around the globe. Training includes: WFR/EMT since 2001, Swiftwater Rescue Tech since 2000, Swiftwater instructor since 2013, High Angle Rope Rescue Tech since 2020, currently an instructor.

Brayden has spent the majority of his EMS career working in the rugged Cascades in SAR operations, tactical/austere medicine, technical rope and swift-water rescue, and REMS teams. He worked in the ICU during the pandemic, and served as a SWAT TacMed for a regional team specializing in care under fire and prolonged field care, mission and team medical planning. He has experience training service dogs for specialized tasks.

Jacy guides rock, ice, and mountaineering expeditions throughout the Americas. His time off is spent pursuing substantial and desperate climbing routes in Alaska and the American West including The Fathers and Sons Wall on Denali, and Mt. Hunter. Exploring the American West since birth, and guiding since 2016, his training includes Wilderness First Responder, American Avalanche Association L2, Avalanche/Crevasse rescue and AMGA Alpine Guide course.

Dave is a former Air Force Pararescueman, ITRA level 3 rope rescue instructor, medic, and adrenaline aficionado who enjoys traveling in the backcountry around the world. He is an avid ski mountaineer, mountain biker, and mountain athlete based in the Tetons. He has a strong passion for teaching and communicating in ways that everyone can relate to, and understand.

Tim is a highly experienced flight medic having started this career in 2004. He has also worked extensively as an EMS instructor, professional ski patroller, and wilderness skills instructor amongst other vocations. Climbing trips have taken him to the Himalayas, Alps, Andes and other remote ranges. He has an AAA level 2 avalanche certification. Tim is based in Colorado where he mountain bikes, backcountry skis, and keeps the crew laughing.