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Eric Anderson
Alpine ExaminerAbout Me
I am the Snow Sports School Director and Manager of the Recirculating Whitewater Course at Wisp Resort, located in western Maryland.
I am the husband to my wife of 20 years, Amy Anderson and father of two teenage daughters Ashlynn and Ava Anderson.
Aside from snow sports, my interest and pastimes include, cycling (road, gravel, and mountain), water sports (waterskiing, stand up paddling, and swimming), running, hiking, family camping, archery, and hunting.
I also enjoy volunteering as a coach for the local NICA Team (National Interscholastic Cycling Association) and serving as a board member for the local Snow Sports Team.
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Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Angel Fire Resort New Mexico at age 5 |
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What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski Instructor at age 16 |
What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | Money isn’t everything : ) |
What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Sooo many great times. I can’t chose a Favorite |
Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Anywhere the ground is white and the skies are blue |
If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Spend time with individuals that are better at there jobs than you. Watch, listen, learn, and apply |
What would be your personal motto? | Make yourself uncomfortable at least once a day. Do hard things. |
Name three words that describe you. | Adventurous, Active, and Reserved |
Tom Riford
Alpine ExaminerAbout Me
Decorated veteran, US Marine Corps, graduate of Cornell University, and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Maryland Department of Commerce.
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What is an interesting fact about you? | In 1995 I broke eleven bones, both lungs collapsed, lacerated my liver, squished my gall bladder, and had a severe concussion combined with major blood loss. |
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Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I can speak Australian. |
What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | I manage Tourism, Film, the Arts, Marketing and Communication for the State of Maryland, and I am the Executive Director of the Maryland Marketing Partnership, which is a Public-Private Partnership. |
Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | First time skiing at Song Mountain. |
What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski Instructor at Greek Peak. |
What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You’re never really finished learning. |
What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Coming back from my injuries, after a decade of being out of the industry, and becoming an examiner again. |
Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Where I am at that time, rain or shine. |
If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay with it. |
What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Biking. Hiking. Mowing the damn lawn. |
What would be your personal motto? | Always volunteer for charities. |
Name three words that describe you. | Kind, thoughtful, steadfast. |
Who is someone you admire, and why? | Terry Barbour. What’s not to admire? |
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | A pilot. |
What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Living to my next birthday would be good. |
What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | See above. |