Nicole grew up in suburban southeastern Michigan, spending Saturdays at the local ski resort and looking forward to her family's annual Steamboat ski trip, the early seeds of her dream to live near big mountains. Nicole moved west for college and earned a degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. She joined USC's Ski and Snowboard Club to take advantage of weekends at Mammoth and impulsively decided to move to Utah after graduation to work as a ski instructor for one season before pursuing a career in marketing. She'll never forget driving up Little Cottonwood Canyon for the first time - the brisk mountain air and early season dusting of snow mixing with the vibrant fall colors. After the best winter of her life, she decided to make Utah home for a bit longer. Nicole later met Ben, her future husband, a Utah-native and an experienced and passionate backcountry skier. It wasn't until many years later that he introduced her to backcountry skiing, the unbound joy, and the potential dangers. Outside of formal avalanche training, the UAC has always been their most trusted resource in missions throughout the Wasatch, and Nicole is honored and excited to join the board. Over the years, Nicole has skied primarily at Brighton and Snowbird and is gaining confidence in her backcountry skills and starting to ramp up human-powered days each season. She works as a Digital Brand Manager at Backcountry, leading the organization's social media efforts. When the trails dry, you can find Nicole hiking with her Border-corgi Brody, mountain biking, camping and backpacking with friends.

Ted Roxbury is a entrepreneur, adventurer, and father. He studied mechanical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston before venturing west to the Last Frontier to work as a climbing and skiing guide for Alaska Mountain Guides. Ted has led expeditions in Alaska, Utah, Mexico, and Argentina. He has climbed Denali, Aconcagua, Pico de Orizaba and explored the great peaks of the Himalaya. When his mountain guiding duties led him to Alta, Utah, Ted spent four winters living the ski bum's dream just seconds from the slopes. Desiring a new challenge, Ted became a self-taught digital marketer and took his first "real" job in the industry at Clearlink. After 13 successful years in the business, Ted exited the company in 2022 as the CEO. He is now focused on advising several startups, spending time with his son, and skiing the greatest snow on earth.

Eric was born and raised on the benches of the Wasatch in Salt Lake County. He’s been passionate about skiing from the age of 5, which required a slew of part-time jobs to buy passes and gear. He even negotiated a deal with his parents in high school that allowed him to skip school on powder days provided his GPA was high enough. In college, he did patrol work at Solitude and Park City, where he learned how to telemark and discovered backcountry skiing. He paid for tuition as a photographer and playing sappy music in bars. After finishing school at the U of U, Eric worked two seasons at Alta’s Engen Ski School, where his love of powder and free-healing in the backcountry grew even stronger. Sadly, one of Eric’s ski clients hired him and forced him to move to California and be “responsible”, which made him constantly yearn to be back in the Wasatch. He got the chance in 1993 when he decided to launch his own software company in Park City rather than Silicon Valley. Eric and his family have resided in Park City ever since. Eric has built three businesses since moving to back home to Utah but has always found a way to make time for being outside - whether it be climbing and skiing in our mountains, tooling through the deserts, or playing in the water when the snow melts.

T.J. grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania. Spending summers throughout college working as a backcountry ranger in Colorado, he grew great admiration for traveling in the mountains. In 2001 TJ moved to Jackson Hole, WY to work as a fisheries biologist and stumbled upon backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. A year later after landing in the Wasatch, TJ quickly developed an addiction to Utah’s amazing access to the greatest snow on earth. TJ’s career in marketing has helped fuel his adventures and travels around the world to ski, climb, and fly fish. “It is an honor to serve on the UAC Board of Director’s for a 2nd term, the Utah Avalanche Center is such an amazing organization supporting an ever growing backcountry community.” TJ was also a UAC board member from 2010-2016.

Kate arrived in Salt Lake City for the first time in 2010 to spend the winter at Alta. As the child of foreign service officers, she has lived (and skied) in Virginia, New York, Belgium, Switzerland, and Turkey, but now calls Utah home. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Environmental Policy. She began to rely on UAC forecasts and resources to safely play in the backcountry the day she arrived at Alta and was honored to support the backcountry community by joining the Board of Directors in 2016. When not out in the mountains, she works as a project manager advancing clean energy technologies for the non-profit organization Utah Clean Energy.

Kirk grew up on a cattle ranch in rural Idaho and learned how much better it was just to be outside at a young age. In 1997, he moved to Utah to attend college and snowboard. The lines are blurred, which was his top priority. While in college, he became a snowboard instructor at Brighton to afford the addiction and have a "job." During that time, he began spending a great deal of time in the side country and venturing out into the backcountry with little education on avalanche conditions or any understanding of how to do so safely, but he quickly fell in love with experience outside of the resorts. In 2011, he ventured into snowmobiling with his family. He quickly realized how little we knew and how much danger we could be in without the proper education. He promptly jumped in and took an Avalanche Recreation 1 and 2 courses to better his skills and enjoy Utah's diverse and amazing backcountry. Kirk holds a business management and economics degree from Westminster College and owns an independent Insurance Brokerage specializing in risk management for clients in " blue-collar" work. He is passionate about working with people who believe a handshake still means something and are true to their word. Kirk has been married to his wife for 17 years and has two amazing kids who are adventure seekers in their own right.

A lifelong skier, Doug was introduced to the mountains by his dad during trips from Southern California to the Sierras, a habit he continued as a student at UC Berkeley. Later, in the late ’90s and as a resident of the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, Doug took up backcountry skiing and quickly learned how vital avalanche education is in evaluating the intermountain west’s volatile snowpack. Continuing education is at the heart of Doug’s approach to spending time in Utah’s backcountry. Today, Doug is an adjunct instructor at the University of Utah’s Eccles School of Business, a role taken after spending 35 years in the outdoor industry. After working for The North Face and Sport Obermeyer in Colorado, Doug spent fifteen years on Patagonia’s leadership team and retired in 2021 after eight years as their chief operating officer.

Originally from the Bay Area in California, Caitlin spent her winters on the slopes in Sun Valley, Idaho from the time she could walk. She has called Utah her home now for a couple of decades. Caitlin was a competitive downhill ski racer, and still today with any spare time, you’ll find her in the mountains as often as possible, skiing, hiking, climbing or riding her motorcycle. Caitlin is a recovering television news anchor and venture capitalist and today runs an executive communications consulting business.

Sara skis, hikes, and makes things out of wood from a home base in Logan, Utah, along with her partner, her Great Pyrenees/border collie mix, two cats, and eight chickens. After growing up on a farm in the Midwest, Sara moved to Utah in 1994 with the goal of getting paid to work outside. She studied forest ecology at Utah State University and then earned a PhD in watershed sciences at the young age of 48. By da, she serves as the national program manager for a large federal research program that monitors forests nationwide. Her work has taken her on field surveys across five continents to study plants, snow, and rivers. Since 2012, Sara and her partner have owned and operated Powder Ridge Ski Touring’s three yurts in northern Utah’s Bear River Range. She enjoys experiencing the backcountry on foot, ski, bike, snowshoe, and occasionally snowmachine. Sara believes in lifelong learning, in work, and at play, and believes that good information helps people make good decisions.

Rich Mrazik skied Alta for the first time in December 1999, called his mother that evening to say “I’m not coming home for a while,” and hasn’t strayed far from the Wasatch since. Rich believes in directional skis and aspires to ski as well as Dexter Rutecki—albeit with better decision making. When he’s not chasing his (better looking, smarter) wife and (better looking, funnier) son on skis or a bike, Rich serves the people of Utah as a district court judge.

Alan or ‘Big Al’ as his friends call him grew up in South Jordan and spent every day he could playing in the Canyons along the Wasatch Front. As an avid snowboarder and mountain biker, the Wasatch was his playground. After a stint overseas doing humanitarian work in the Balkans, Alan returned to Utah to attend school and start a family. Alan is an avid and enthusiastic backcountry snowmobiler and worked as a Snowmobile and Outdoor Adventure Guide for High Time Outdoor Adventures where he would spend 100+ days a year on a sled in the Utah Backcountry. Alan is a lifelong learner and builds on his backcountry knowledge each and every day, he has a go, go, go never slow down, never stop personality. Since taking his first formal backcountry avalanche course from Craig Gordan through the UAC in 2007 he has worked tirelessly to increase the level of avalanche education within the motorized backcountry community and to build relationships and trust between the UAC, dealers, manufacturers, DNR and US Forest Service district rangers, and land managers. Alan has served on the board for Davis County Snowmobile Club (DCSC) and Utah Snowmobile Association (USA) and still serves on the USA board as a liaison with UAC. Alan is one of the founders and owners of Backcountry Institutes LLC (BCI). BCI is responsible for much of the formal motorized avalanche education in Utah teaching both avalanche specific as well as riding skills courses. BCI instructors teach the Motorized Backcountry 101 courses for the UAC as well as public, private and specialized Motorized Level 1, Motorized Companion Rescue, Backcountry Riding Skills classes as well as SAR specific courses to individual county winter rescue teams. When he's not on a sled or a snowbike, Alan can be found pounding out miles of single track on his mountain bike (single track therapy)l; climbing mountain passes and gaining elevation on his road bike (pedal therapy); twisting the throttle on his Harley on a twisty mountain road (Wind Therapy); or watching one of his 5 kids play soccer or run track (Life Therapy)......... either way Alan needs a lot of therapy. Alan works professionally in the financial services industry

Originally from the Midwest, Christian is the founder of Uncharted Supply Company. Uncharted builds and designs products to help the average person escape extraordinary circumstances. Previously he's spent years in war zones, toured internationally with a band, and started and worked with globally recognized brands. In his free time, you can likely find him in the mountains with his Swiss Mountain Dog, Barron.

Michael is a native Utahn who was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He has a degree in Economics from Westminster College and a master’s in Public Administration from the University of Utah. His past work includes a career in politics working on multiple political campaigns including a Governor’s race, the Count My Vote ballot initiative and in the Salt Lake County Mayor’s office. Currently, he is the Sustainability Director for Salt Lake County. A lifelong skier and more recent mountain biker he is a man of the mountains to his core. When he isn’t working, you will find him riding the Wasatch with his partner Nastaran and their golden retriever Rocky.

Holli grew up in Fillmore, a small town in central Utah, where her stepdad introduced her to the outdoors through camping and hunting. Her love for nature deepened when she moved to Cedar City to attend Southern Utah University, where she met her husband, Curtis. They married in 2002 and moved to the Ogden area. Her passion for snowmobiling began in 2009 and truly took off after they joined the Davis County Snowmobile Club (DCSC) in 2015. They met a fantastic group of friends through the club, and she discovered a passion she never imagined she’d have. Snowmobiling has given Curtis and her something they can enjoy together. She served on the DCSC board for four seasons and has volunteered with the Utah Snowmobile Association at various events. Her involvement in avalanche training made her aware of the dangers in the backcountry, and each year, she prioritizes taking courses to enhance her knowledge and encourage her riding group to do the same. She’s excited to serve on the board of the Utah Avalanche Center, where she can advocate for backcountry safety and help ensure that all outdoor enthusiasts return home safely. When she’s not snowmobiling, you can find her mountain biking, paddle boarding, camping, hiking, or enjoying their RZR in the mountains or sand dunes.