Guides
Jesse Logan
Jesse is a Certified Interpretive Guide, a trained Leave No Trace instructor, and holds a Yellowstone Association Naturalist certificate. He is also a PhD ecologist who had a successful career in both academia (Colorado State and Virginia Tech Universities) and the US Forest Service. He has ski toured extensively in the Cooke City area and the NE corner of Yellowstone National Park for the past fifteen winters, spending over 100 days in the backcountry ski-touring each year. He combines this diverse background with a deep interest in Yellowstone’s human and natural history to provide a unique skiing experience in one of America’s wildest remaining landscapes. You just might hear a wolf howl, or follow wolverine tracks, while perusing powder turns with Jesse. During summer, he is a contract instructor for Yellowstone Association leading field seminars that range from high-mountain ecology, to backpacking, to fly-fishing. He served as Associate Editor and Map Editor for the acclaimed book, Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone: A Narrative Atlas of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness https://shop.abwilderness.org/products/the-atlas.
Gary Kuehn
Gary is a fully certified IFMGA mountain guide who has experience leading high quality trips throughout the world. He is associated with the American and New Zealand Mountain Guide Associations and is a certified instructor of the American Avalanche Association . Gary loves being on skis and is completely at home heli-skiing, ski-touring and ski-mountaineering, whether it be the Southern Alps of New Zealand or in Yellowstone Park. He works with world class guides in two small heli-ski operations: Methven Heli ski in New Zealand and Valdez Heli Ski Guides in Alaska, and is delighted to be a part of the team at Yellowstone Ski Tours.
Austin Hart
Austin is life long native to the Beartooth foothills of Montana and Wyoming, currently splitting his time between Cooke City and Red Lodge, MT. Owner / Guide of Beartooth Mountain Guides and Owner / Operator of Beartooth Basin Summer Ski Area. Avalanche Level 2 Recreational, Level 1 Professional. Professional Ski Patrol experience at Red Lodge Mountain, Mt. Baker and Beartooth Basin. Austin leads annual expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and has BS and MS degrees in geology. He is co-author to several routes on snow, ice and rock in the Beartooth Range. Austin finds endless inspiration for instructing mountain travel adventures and exploring the unique natural history in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Allen Steckmest
Allen grew up in small town in north central Washington where he began skiing as soon as he could walk. His passion for skiing and the mountains has taken him to many places around the world, including ranges in Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Canada and the volcanoes of Kamchatka. But year after year he finds himself exploring the mountains around Cooke City. Allen holds a Level III Avalanche certification and has completed his AMGA ski guide course.
Ben Hoiness
Ben grew up climbing, skiing and fly-fishing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and has been lucky to continue living in this great place. Ben began guiding fly- fishing at age 18 while attending college at the University of Montana where he studied cartography and resource conservation. At age 23 he began a career as a mountain guide and began work for Exum mountain guides in Jackson, Wyoming where he lived for 5 Years. Recently, Ben has moved back to the mountains of his childhood and now resides in Red Lodge, MT with his Wife Leslie and his Dog Cash. He now splits time managing a family fly-fishing business, ski guiding in Cooke City and of course getting into the mountains as much as possible. -Avalanche Professional Level 2
Amanda Tulip
Amanda has been on skis since she learned to walk. Growing up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire fuelled the passion that she is still chasing in Montana. Amanda loves all types of skiing and has worked across the industry, from snow ranger to ski patrol. There is nothing she loves more than exploring new places on skis, except sharing loved places with new faces.
Nate Winning
Nate is a long time resident of Red Lodge Montana and has been exploring mountains and rivers of the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for over 20 years. Growing up in the midwest, Nate started exploring the mountains as a teenager around the Cooke City area in the 1990's when snowmobiling in the area was gaining popularity, and since then has skied and climbed across the region. Outdoor adventure travel has taken him all over North and South America. As a veteran ski patrol and a certified EMT, he is dedicated to providing top notch and safe backcountry experiences. Nate works for Beartooth Mountain Guides during the year, guiding trips that range from mountaineering to river rafting, he is passionate about showing people and teaching them about the outdoors surrounding the Yellowstone ecosystem. When Nate is not working he is busy teaching his young children about outdoor recreation.
Patrick Cross
Patrick is an ecologist whose research is based in Yellowstone Park and the Beartooth Mountains. For his master’s degree from the University of Montana, he spent two winters on the Beartooth Plateau, collecting genetic samples from its indigenous red foxes and tracking them on ski to learn how they survive its harsh alpine winters. He previously studied coyote-wolf interactions in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley and grizzly bear feeding habits around Yellowstone Lake, and currently works as the lab manager at the non-profit Yellowstone Ecological Research Center. Recently, he worked as a naturalist guide for the Yellowstone Safari Company, refining his interpretation skills while also getting out of the lab and into the Park (where he really wants to be). And when he isn’t working, he is out exploring those wild places on ski. He is excited to combine these skills and interests as part of the Yellowstone Ski Tours team.
Beau Fredlund
Beau is a passionate skier, guide and photographer with a sincere interest and appreciation for the Yellowstone region. He has been living in Cooke City, MT for 17 years, and has a diverse background of skiing experience from places like Alaska, Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Kamchatka, Norway and New Zealand. He also has years of experience in the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, having grown up in Billings, and worked for the US Forest Service in Red Lodge for ten years. He has a degree from the University of Utah, and teaches avalanche education for the Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center. Beau, the owner and lead guide of Yellowstone Ski Tours, started the business with the aim of sharing unique and educational, high quality ski experiences.