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Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |
Brian McVicker
Alpine Examiner Education Committee Member
About Me
Began teaching skiing at Mt. Baker in Wa State in 1987.
Helped create and start the first adaptive ski program at Mt. Baker in 1994.
Have a passion for helping others have a positive, fun experience, especially if they are anxious or fearful of the activity.
Notes
| What is an interesting fact about you? | Helped Build the largest flying trapeze school in the nation and worked in that industry teaching and training for over 20 years. |
|---|---|
| Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? | I am a live load aerial rigger. (Safely and accurately helping aerial artists to hang from different spaces and structures) I play a mean air guitar |
| What jobs do you do – within and outside the snowsports industry, both winter & summer? | Handyman, repair, construction. Business Coach. Personal Trainer. Rigging inspector for Aerial Arts facilities. |
| Where is the first place you participated in snowsports? | Mt Baker in Washington state. 1980. |
| What was your first job in the snowsports industry? | Ski School Sign Dork, and Children’s instructor. |
| What is a valuable lesson you learned in your snowsports career? | You never know who’s watching or who you may inspire, so act accordingly. |
| What is your favorite memory from your snowsports career so far? | Getting to ski the continental divide, by the light of the full moon, in the trees from midnight to 5am, in a foot of fresh snow with 8 of my fellow instructors one of which was my little brother. |
| Where is your favorite place to ski or ride? | Copper Mountain Colorado |
| If you could give a younger person snowsports/career advice, what would it be? | Stay involved with PSIA and continue as long as you can. Being a ski instructor is the best job on the planet, and the longer that you do it, the more you realize, just how amazing life can be. The friends you make and the people you help are endless. |
| What activities do you enjoy, when you’re not out on the snow? | Hiking, Mt. Biking, fly fishing, photography and kayaking. |
| What would be your personal motto? | Be Kind and enjoy the journey, for it IS the destination. |
| Name three words that describe you. | Dedicated, Solutionist, Goofy. |
| When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grow up? | Astronaut or storm chaser. |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next year? | Finish writing a book |
| What goal would you like to accomplish in the next five years? | Find the next path for me to leave the world better than I found it. |