Our Dedicated, Adventerous Guides
San Juan Outdoor Adventures leads trips into the San Juan mountains with extreme care and respect for our natural surroundings. Our mountain staff is highly qualified and expertly trained in making these excursions fun, educational and low impact and they will provide you with a wealth of information about the Telluride area.
- Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician
- Wilderness First Responder / First Aid Certification
- Low to High Angle Rescue
- Outdoor Emergency Care Technician
- CPR for the Healthcare Provider / Professional Rescuer
- Avalanche Courses Level I -III
- AMGA Certification & Membership
- American Avalanche Association Professional Membership
They gave much of their time and effort to San Juan Outdoor Adventures. Their influence will stay with us for a lifetime.
PETER INGLIS
1959-2015
Peter’s roots went back to Vermont where he grew up at the base of the state’s biggest mountain, Mount Mansfield, hiking and skiing. He earned a bachelor of science degree in outdoor recreation and resource management at the University of Vermont and has worked in recreation ever since. In 1987, he relocated to the San Juans where he guided for more than 20 years.
Peter’s guiding and personal adventures took him on wild rides, including three winter seasons spent in the Alps, skiing and climbing in India, mountaineering in Peru and Nepal, and a first ascent in China (peak 5,965 meters), Another was a complete climb and partial ski of Mount St Elias, the second highest peak in the United States, not to mention 14 trips up Denali.
Peter’s favorite passions were backcountry and ski mountaineering; ice climbing; and rock climbing, preferably in the warm, desert sun. When not guiding or adventuring, he worked for nearly 20 years as an avalanche technician in the Telluride ski area.
“I love the outdoors. What can I say?” he said.
JACK ROBERTS
1952-2012
Jack Roberts climbed for 39 years, more than 30 of them in Colorado. He was a published author with the second edition of his ice climbing guide to Colorado, “Colorado Ice,” which was a finalist in the guidebook category at the 2006 Banff Book Festival. He was a frequent contributor to Climbing and Rock and Ice magazines, and the American Alpine Journal. He was awarded recognition at the Banff Book Festival as having written the finest article of the year in the 1997 Canadian Alpine Journal. His last article was published in Alpinist No. 20, under the Mount Huntington story.
Jack was frequently requested as guest lecturer, presentor, and clinic instructor at the Ouray Ice Festival, Pont Rouge (Festiglace) ice festival, Bozeman Ice Festival, Cody Ice Festival, and many others.
His climbing career began in 1968 in Southern California where he climbed at Tahquitz, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite. He eventually became a part of the influential Stonemasters Climbing group and went on to ascend big walls in Yosemite. Many of them were second ascents—The Shield, Zodiac, Tangerine Trip, Tis-Sa-Ack, Cosmos, Gobi Wall, El Cap Towers Right Side, Mescalito. Later, he gravitated to alpine climbing in Europe, Canada, and Alaska where he established first ascents on Mount Huntington, Denali, Mount Lewis, Mount Kennedy, and others. With Dale Bard, he did the first free ascent of Polar Circus and with Tobin Sorenson did the first winter ascent of the North Face on Mount Robson and the first winter ascent of the Central Couloir on Mount Kitchener.