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Meet the PCIA Board of Directors
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Jon Tierney is an internationally certified IFMGA mountain guide and serves as the Educational Director of the PCIA. Jon began climbing in the mid 70's in central NH. With a passion for rock, ice and mountaineering his accomplishments as a climber and guide include multiple high altitude peaks, first ascents on rock and ice, and hundreds of multi-pitch rock and alpine routes worldwide. Jon started his outdoor career as a naturalist and interpreter for the National Park Service and then became involved in outdoor education working with universities, youth-at-risk programs, and Outward Bound. In 1984 he co-founded the University of Maine outdoor program which he directed until 2001. UMaine was home to one of the first relatively large climbing gyms in the northeast and became the firsrt university program to undergo accreditation of its climbing program. In the late eighties Jon worked as backcountry climbing ranger for the park service during the summer and in 1994 he established...
Todd Vogel is a mountain guide and outdoor instructor from California's Eastern Sierra. He owns Outdoor Link, llc, a respected outdoor education firm. He is an AMGA certified rock and alpine guide and has been a ski guide for over twenty years. He has been one of the developers of the AMGA's Top Rope Site Manager program since its inception in 1998 and works extensively in the institutional climbing field. He has been a key member of the AMGA's accreditation committee since the late 1990's, helping align that program with modern field and administrative practices. His work for the last ten years has been primarily in outdoor education, focusing on the TR program, outdoor programs for schools, technical trainings for outdoor leaders, and outdoor/wilderness-based organizational development programs for community and business leaders. He is also involved in public land education and stewardship, leading many volunteer groups on trail work and other service projects...
Will Friday is the Associate Director of Outdoor Link and Program Director for On Belay / LET's (Let's Erase the Stigma, and non profit education foundation dedicated to raising awareness of mental health issues with teens). He is a course provider for PCIA's CWI, CWI Provider and outdoor programs. Will is an avid climber, surfer, kayaker and telemark skier. The Sierra Nevada, Joshua Tree and the Santa Monica mountains are favorite climbing areas. Will also participates in risk management, accreditation and program reviews for outdoor education programs in southern California. Will lives in Topanga with his daughter. Other interests include natural horsemanship and competing in ranch sorting, team penning events, native plant preservation, gardening, living sustainably and viticulture. Previously, Will was the Environmental and Outdoor Education Department Chair at the...
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