The Teton Climbers’ Coalition is pleased to announce the addition of several new members to its team.
Over the past few months, Charlie Thomas and Garrick Hart have joined our board.
Charlie Thomas
Charlie, who has lived in Jackson Hole since 1980, is a fine woodworker and longtime climber (and skier and kayaker) who guided raft trips in the Valley until 1986 when he started Magpie Furniture. Forty seven years of climbing have taken him to South America, Canada and throughout the United States. Married to Marylee White with two now-adult children, he continues to build furniture in Wilson and climb whenever the rocks need to be climbed.
Exum guide Garrick Hart has climbed throughout the west including ascents on El Capitan in Yosemite as well as rock and ice routes in places such as Red Rocks, Moab, the North Cascades, and throughout Wyoming. Many of the ascents were with his wife, twin daughters and son.
Garrick Hart
Garrick teaches physics at Jackson Hole High School and runs the mountaineering club there as well, teaching students to know and love the mountains as well as how to travel and recreate in them safely.
Joining our stewardship team are Tom Hargis and Wesley Gooch.
Tom Hargis
Tom is an Internationally Certified AMGA/UIAGM Mountain Guide who has climbed extensively in Canada and U.S., including five routes on El Capitan and many ascents in the southwest. He has guided and done expeditions throughout the world, including in Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and made the first ascent of the northwest ridge of Pakistan’s Gasherbrum IV —the only American to ever summit the peak. Expeditions to Everest and Gasherbrum II. He is a recipient of AMGA Lifetime Achievement in Guiding Award (2004) and is an AMGA instructor and examiner in Rock and Alpine disciplines.
Born in Jackson and raised in Pinedale, Wesley grew up climbing and exploring the Teton and Wind River Mountain ranges. At thirteen, he was introduced to the sport of rock climbing and was hooked for life. The alpine rock of the Wind River Mountains has been Wesley’s primary source of climbing inspiration. Every year, he returns to explore and establish new routes high in the Wind Rivers.
Wesley pursues many forms of climbing: bouldering, sport, traditional, alpine, and ice climbing. He is also the author of the guidebook Rock Climbing Jackson Hole & Pinedale, Wyoming (which includes Driggs, ID), and is currently working on a third edition.
Wesley Gooch
Please join us in welcoming all four volunteers to the TCC team, which continues to work on behalf of all the climbers in the greater Teton area.