Who We Are

Christian Beckwith

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, but these days he feeds the rat most often in the peaks above and around the Hole, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

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.

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.

Phil Powers

Phil Powers is an owner and guide at Jackson Hole Mountain Guides. He is a lifelong climber who has made over 25 expeditions to Alaska, South America and the Karakoram Range. He made the first ascent of the 8,000-foot Washburn Face on Denali, the first ascent of Lukpilla Brakk’s Western Edge in Pakistan (VI, 5.11, A3) and the first winter traverse of the Tetons’ Cathedral Peaks in 1992. He has also climbed two 8,000-meter peaks—K2 and Gasherbrum II—without the aid of supplemental oxygen.

Phil served as CEO at the American Alpine Club and has served on both the Access Fund and AMGA boards. He is the recipient of the American Mountain Foundation’s VIIth Grade Award for climbing achievement; the AAC Mountaineering Fellowship Grant; the Mugs Stump Climbing Grant; and the Wilderness Education Association’s Paul Petzoldt Award for Excellence in Outdoor Education (2007). He received the American Alpine Club’s highest award for service, the Heilprin Award, in 2012. Phil has written two books on climbing: Wilderness Mountaineering and Expedition Planning. He remains an active climber and skier.

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.

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.