John Lehrman Email and Phone Number

Ski guiding from Downing Mountain Lodge and across the Montana portion of the Bitterroot National Forest. Including St Joe Peak, Gash Point, Sky Pilot Peak, Downing Mountain, Canyon Peak, Camas Peak, Ward Mountain and El Capitan Peak.

Owner and operator of a remote backcountry ski and summer lodge.

I was in charge of student recruiting and retention during the camp's most successful growth in enrollment from 2001-2006. I led the camp's guide staff in their daily operations, itinerary development for wilderness trips up to six weeks in length, and I managed the camp's equipment, canoe fleet, and trip logistics. I managed the full camp during three leadership transitons. Additonally I started the adult tripping program at Keewaydin and guided the first three year's trips on the Temagami River. Additional 7 seasons spent leading youth groups of teens on trips from five days to 5 weeks in Canada's northern wilderness and boreal forest teaching canoecraft and woodsman skills as well as biology and botany and ecological themes.

I worked on the Bear DNA hair snaring survey in Galcier National Park in addition to leading Earthwatch volunteers on said surveys. We spent long days backpacking and hiking both on and off trail setting hair snares in the remote park backcountry as well as collecting bear hair from trail side snare sets. It was a great job where I hiked every day and put about 700 miles under my boots that season.

I worked as an aquatic surveyor in the mountain streams of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Both surveying the form and function of streambeds as well as the fish populations were the subject of our contract work for the National Forest Service.