Who We Are
Our TEAM
Christian Beckwith
Our founder and executive director, Christian Beckwith began climbing in Wales in 1990, was lured to the Tetons by an article on alpine rock climbing in 1993 and has called Jackson home ever since. He started The Wayward Mountaineers, a local climbing organization that published The Mountain Yodel, in 1994, which led to his first real job, as editor of The American Alpine Journal. He is the founding editor of Alpinist Magazine, coordinated the development of The Teton Boulder Park and started the Town Pump summertime bouldering series. In 2013, he launched the conservation organization SHIFT. His climbing has taken him to Kyrgyzstan, Peru, Tibet, Alaska and across North America, Asia and Europe. He lives with his wife and daughter in Jackson, where he produces the award-winning podcast, Ninety-Pound Rucksack.
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.
Hadden Goodman
Hadden Goodman arrived in Jackson in September 2001 intending to spend three weeks climbing in the area. As the autumn came to an end, she realized her exploration of the Tetons wasn’t complete. Determined to delve deeper, she resolved to spend the following summer exploring the region before eventually moving to Squamish, British Columbia. Twenty-three years later, she’s still here, having fallen in love with the area and its abundant climbing opportunities.
With a Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant Studies, Hadden works at Teton Orthopaedics alongside a foot/ankle and hand/wrist surgeon. She is also an active member of Wyoming K9 Search and Rescue, where she serves with her German Shepherd Dog, Boone.
Like many residents of Jackson Hole, Hadden is passionate about the outdoors and deeply cherishes the area she calls home. She is firmly committed to sustaining, preserving, and enhancing the places within which she lives and recreates. Her primary objective in joining The Teton Climbers’ Coalition is to contribute her efforts toward achieving these goals.
Morgan McGlashon
Born and raised in the mountains, Morgan McGlashon is a Teton native. Her first love with mountains began on skis at age two, but has grown to include all mediums and seasons including summer alpine and rock climbing. After years of competing as a professional freeskier and working through a degree in geology from Middlebury College, Morgan has returned to the Tetons full time to guide backcountry skiing and alpine climbing for Exum Mountain Guides.
Morgan’s innate curiosity and quest for adventure has led her around the world where she has discovered deep snow, big rocks, and lively people. She has completed ski mountaineering descents, alpine climbs, and obscure human powered adventures in places such as the Tetons, Alps, Andes, Cascades, Wind River Range, Japan, and Iceland. Morgan loves sharing her time in the mountains with others and hopes to instill confidence and competence in anyone who wishes to be there.
Marian Meyers
Marian Meyers first traveled out West from the Deep South in 1977 to work in YNP and GTNP during college summers. Adventures in the Tetons at that time were the beginning of a lifetime love of climbing. Climbing has taken her from the Western states to Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Nepal, and Cuba. In 1996, Marian moved full-time to Jackson with her husband, Dave, and daughter, Sydney. Currently serving as a Regional Council Member for the National Parks Conservation Association and on the Board of Elders at the Presbyterian Church of JH, Marian has also been privileged to serve on the boards of the Joint Powers Recycling & Waste Reduction Board, Snake River Fund, and Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation. With a professional career as a physical therapist, she is an ardent believer that movement is key to one’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing and supports the Teton climbing community towards this healthy pursuit.
Sheila Walsh Reddy
Sheila is a conservation professional and passionate outdoors woman. She lives in Wilson, WY and Durham, NC with her husband and young daughter. Sheila started climbing on her off days while conducting research in the alpine environments of Colorado. Over the years, her climbing has been enriched by supportive communities and organizations, such as the American Alpine Club of NC who awarded her the Kidder Aspiring Alpinist Award in 2014. Sheila looks forward to serving the Teton climbing community through advocacy, stewardship, and community engagement.
Charlie Thomas
Charlie Thomas began his climbing career in Ohio at the age of fourteen but it wasn’t until he came to the Tetons on a bus in 1978 that he knew what climbing meant. Since then his passion for mountains has taken him throughout the US, Canada and South America. A woodworker by trade, he started Magpie Furniture in 1986 and still builds custom furniture. Other volunteer positions include three years as a soccer coach, five with the JHHS Mountaineering Club, five years as a mediator in small claims court and, best of all, five years as a Girl Scout troop leader.
Rob Werner
Rob moved to Jackson many years ago, and has been climbing wherever and whenever possible ever since.
Alice Pang
When she’s not climbing, Alice is a ceramic artist and sculptor. As the creator of Eight Fires Creative Camp and an instructor at the Art Association of Jackson Hole, she loves bringing artists together to explore creativity and build community.
Town Pump
Anthony Gulla
Anthony Gulla moved to Jackson, WY, from Ohio after college and quickly fell in love with the community and natural landscape. Drawn to the rugged beauty of the Tetons, he spends his time exploring the range in search of the incredible bouldering opportunities it has to offer. Passionate about the outdoors and the climbing community, he embraces the adventure, challenge, and camaraderie that comes with life in the mountains. Whether discovering new problems or connecting with fellow climbers, he is always eager to experience and share the magic of the Tetons.
Zoe Salazar
A student at the Jackson Hole High School, Zoe is an active member of the JHHS Mountaineering Club, with which she participates in local events and regional climbing trips. In addition to volunteering with the Teton Climber’s Coalition, she is an active member of and volunteer for Coombs Outdoors.
Jerod Pfeffer
Jerod has been a climber for the past thirty years. He also co-founded 460 Bread and was selected as the captain of the US competitive baking team in 2020. Most recently, Jerod has been focused on the issue of housing affordability in Teton Valley, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Hanna Merzbach
Hanna Merzbach has been climbing for about a decade. You can find her in her happy place at Red Rocks or Wild Iris. She has a passion for making the sport more accessible, especially for women. When not climbing, skiing or floating on a paddle board, you can find her wandering around with a microphone. She’s a journalist at Wyoming Public Radio, where she covers stories across the Mountain West.
Chris Owen
Chris has been climbing and route setting since he was 14. He moved from South Carolina to Wyoming in 2004 to work at NOLS and the USFS. He now takes care of all the trails for Friends of Pathways and sets at the Town Pump and the Rec Center gym.
Rheya Irvin
Rheya has called Teton Valley home since 2015. Raising her free-spirited daughter while nurturing her own curiosity, she is a lifelong learner, drawn to growth through shared knowledge and meaningful connection. She first discovered climbing at the Town Pump and quickly fell in love with sport cragging and the adventures of trad climbing. When she’s not touching rocks, Rheya finds balance through yoga, snowboarding, and getting lost in a good book.
Climb Nights
Giselle Cisneros
Born and raised a Latina in Jackson, Giselle is passionate about sharing her unique perspective and skills she’s gained from her lifetime of outdoor experience in the Teton area. A climber for over ten years, she discovered her love for climbing and community through the local school mountaineering club. Since then, she has focused on promoting diversity, inclusivity, and access in outdoor spaces by hosting community climb nights and meetups. Being a bilingual Mexican-American, Giselle bridges her two cultural identities to connect with just about anyone and to help others feel welcomed in the outdoors. When not climbing or dirt-bagging, she can be found engineering concerts or hauling traditional Chinese teaware up Teton peaks to enjoy aged teas on the summit.
Aspen Smith
Aspen Smith is a passionate climber and advocate for an inclusive climbing community. Originally from Kansas City, MO, they have called Jackson, Wyoming home since April 2024. With a climbing journey that began in 2018, Aspen now works at the Teton County Recreation Center in the climbing gym, where they share their love for the sport. They are dedicated to fostering community engagement, teaching new skills, and ensuring the climbing world is accessible to people of all backgrounds. Aspen believes in creating a supportive, welcoming space for everyone, regardless of their walk of life.
Zuri Vasquez Bedolla
Born and raised in the Tetons, Zuri is a proud first-generation American and daughter to immigrant parents from Tlaxcala, Mexico. She began climbing in high school as a way to spend time with her younger sister. A growing climber herself, Zuri helps hosts BIPOC Climb Nights. She also volunteers with Coombs Outdoors, supporting winter programs and after-school workshops.
Whether she’s introducing middle schoolers or adults to the wall, Zuri is passionate about helping others find confidence through climbing and recreation in the outdoors. She believes joy, growth, and access to the outdoors are things we all deserve.
Zuri is a young business professional. When she is not at her desk, you can find her running, skiing, enjoying the arts, traveling, savoring espresso, or cherishing moments with her family and friends.
Stewardship Team
Tom Hargis
Tom Hargis 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.
Wesley Gooch
By choice, Wesley Gooch has enjoyed his entire life within the Greater Yellowstone region, and it is likely that this circumstance will never change! 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.
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The Teton Climbers’ Coalition
PO Box 350
Jackson, WY 83001