Ecuador Volcanoes Jan/Feb 2010 | Field Touring Alpine

Field Touring Alpine Ecuador Volcanoes January 2010 - Team Page

We have two trips heading off this January and the first is with Brad Boehringer and Eric Pedersen and the second with Stu Remensnyder and Mike Leyden. The first trip is 13 days and includes Cotopaxi and Chimborazo while the second trip is 16 days and adds on Cayambe and a few extra cultural/spare summit days.

To climb to the highest point above sea level, Mt. Everest, is a great goal but the cost, risk and experience needed makes it for many people inaccessible. On this trip we aim for about the point furthest from the center of the planet - Chimborazo! While Chimborazo is 6,268 meters above the sea it measures more than 2 kilometers from the center of the earth at a distance of 6,384 km.

We still have a room for a few more members so let us know if you would like to join us for the jan 26 trip! If you can't make these trips look on our trip page or upcoming dates! Every year we have a number of trips to Ecuador running from lengths of 9 days to 16 days so pick one that suits your time and energy and join us!
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Team Members for Jan 5 -17, 2010

Brad Boehringer (USA) Expedition Leader

Brad joined us in 2005 as an assistant on Ama Dablam and led our second wave successfully to the top. He then returned to the US to polish off a nursing degree and now splits his time as an ER nurse, SOLO Wilderness Medicine ALS and BLS instructor and FTA guide.

Eric Pedersen (USA) Guide-in-training

Jeff McQueen (USA),

Esla Olivetti (USA)

Justin Reich (USA)

Mark Ericson (USA)

Team Members for January 26-Feb 10

Stu Remensnyder (USA), Expedition Leader

Stu has led trips for more than 15 years to places all over the planet including Ama Dablam, Aconcagua, Cho Oyu, Broad Peak, the Peruvian Andes and more and climbed extensively in Nepal, Peru, Spain, France, USA and Canada. He holds a Wilderness EMT certification and teaches for SOLO Wilderness Medicine when not running trips or managing the FTA USA office.

Mike Leyden (USA), Assistant Guide

Mike assisted the 2005 FTA Ama Dablam trip and reached C2 before giving up his summit push to assist an exhausted climber back down to safe ground. Mike has climbed all over the White Mountains of new England, managed the Huntington Ravine Hut, been an active member of the mountain rescue community in North Conway, summited volcanoes in Mexico and traveled extensively. Mike has also been a paramedic and wilderness EMT for more than a decade, run the EMS system for the country of Trinadad and Tobago and holds a Masters in Public Health from BU. To say you feel safe on one of his trips is an understatement!

Craig Kannell (USA)

Scott Biddell (USA)

Phil Jackson (USA)

Jamey Hasbrouck (USA)