Caleb Merrill

Caleb originally hailing from Brunswick, Maine attended the University of Vermont and has worked on the Solitude Patrol since 2006. His guiding resume includes 3 years as a lead instructor for Outward Bound Wilderness and avalanche training from AIARE and the National Avalanche School. Caleb currently spends his off-season mountain biking, sailing, traveling, and working as a wildland firefighter across the West.

Chris Noyes

Chris Noyes moved to the Wasatch area in the late 90′s from Massachusetts. He soon developed an addiction to powder skiing and realized he could never leave the Cottonwood Canyons. Chris began patrolling at Solitude in 2006, after two seasons on the Park City Ski Patrol. In summer he works as a backcountry river ranger in the Alaskan wilderness, splitting his time between fishing for salmon and dodging grizzly bears.

Jared Hynes

Jared was born and raised skiing in the Wasatch and is a senior member of the Solitude ski patrol. An avid ski mountaineer, he’s spent five seasons exploring the French Alps around La Grave. Ski guiding has taken him around the world from snowcat skiing in the Chilean Andes to guiding heli-skiing in the Chugach Range of Alaska. When not guiding, Jared can be found chasing trout with his fly rod.

Adam Teel

Adam learned to ski as a kid here in the Wasatch, and has been focusing on backcountry skiing for the last 10 years. Adam began working at solitude in 2005, and has been a wilderness EMT for five years. The last decade Adam has spent traveling the West raft guiding throughout the Colorado plateau – from the Grand Canyon to various rivers in Oregon and California. Along with all of his adventures, Adam is also an avid skydiver.

Kyle Gilbert

Kyle is a native of Wyoming and has skied throughout the Rockies before landing in the Wasatch because it just snows more here.He has received training from the National Avalanche School, American Avalanche Institute, and the National Ski Patrol, and has been a part of the Solitude Ski Patrol since 2006. He is also active in the Wasatch Backcountry Rescue avalanche dog program and certified his own dog, Bridger, in the spring of 2011.

Jeremy Brodney

Jeremy began his ski career at age three chasing his brothers throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. After five years spent as an EMT and senior patroller at Stratton Mountain in Vermont, he finally decided that soft snow, sunshine and Big Cottonwood Canyon were as good as it gets. Summers are spent at his homestead in Vermont where he operates an engineering and consulting firm. In his spare time he tends an apple orchard and vegetable patch in addition to serving on the local fire department and rescue squad.