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Joe Hartney |
Joe Hartney has been skiing for 14 of his 25 years. After learning to ski on
a tiny hill in Wisconsin, he moved west in search of wilderness. This
search initially took him to Colorado for four years of college where he
began backcountry skiing and rock climbing.
With a dangerously unpredictable
snowpack and severely developed ski terrain, Joe spent more time climbing
rock and ice than skiing. In 1997, he moved to Jackson, Wyoming, to further
pursue his mountain education. Under the tutelage of veteran Greater
Yellowstone explorer Tom Turiano, Joe quickly realized that the area offered
endless skiing potential with a more predictable snowpack than Colorado. He
has been able to climb and ski more than 40 peaks throughout the
Yellowstone region.
During the short Wyoming summers, he has continued to
climb, but now spends most of the year on skis. Joe works part time as a
ski instructor at Jackson Hole, devoting the majority of his free time to
exploring Greater Yellowstone.
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