Born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah.
My parents took me to the Pacific coast often as a kid.
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| Gray Whale excursion when I was about 9 years old. (San Francisco area) |
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| At Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California with my Dad. |
After high school I lived in Japan for two years where I worked as a service missionary and studied Japanese. I minored in Japanese at the University of Utah and am fluent conversationally.
I graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Music Composition. I love composing music for documentary style presentations about the marine world.
After college I moved to Guam (1989) where I worked as a Japanese speaking dive instructor and dive boat captain. During that time I traveled to Saipan, Palua, Yap, Truk, and Ponapei as a dive guide and dive vessel captain. I also visited Bali and Sulawesi, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan.
I moved to Sitka, Alaska (1995) where I worked as a whale-watch vessel captain. for Allen Marine. (www.allenmarine.com) The tour season goes from May to September. In the winter months I delivered vessels that Allen Marine built for ferry and tourism applications. The vessel design that I delivered the most was a 150 passenger, high speed catamaran powered with four Hamilton water jets. From 2000 to 2004, I delivered 15 of the 19 vessels that Allen Marine built for New York Waterway as the head captain.
In 2007, I move to Nevada and worked for Lake Mead Cruises. I did this to be closer to elderly parents. I captained a 270 passenger paddle-wheeler and was the general manager. Because of the recession and the very poor economy in the Las Vegas area I was laid off in 2008. During the summer of 2009 I worked as a boat guide on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.
From 2009 to 2012, I operated land-based, 4 wheeled drive excursions to the more remote parts of Grand Canyon National Park, Death Valley National Park, and Zion National Park in the Mojave Desert.
A selection of photos of me during various adventures:
At the summit of Gunung Agung Elevation: 10,000 feet
Bali, Indonesia (1994)
Running the Sa'dan River
Central Sulawesi, Indonesia (1994)
At the summit of Mount Whitney, CA
Highest point in the lower 48 states
Elevation: 14,500 feet (2011)
In the Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska
The largest temperate rain-forest in the world. (2011)
3 day backpack trip
South Kaibab Trail, Grand Canyon NP (2012)
At Toroweap Point, the most remote part of the Grand Canyon.
(Dirt road round-trip - 120 miles) (2010)
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| At the famous RACETRACK PLAYA in a remote part of Death Valley National Park where the rocks mysteriously move across the mudflat. The largest moving rocks are over 1000 pounds. (2010) |
