Joe St. Onge
Hailey
American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA)
About
Joe St. Onge earned a BA in Outdoor Education from Prescott College in 1994. Since then, his talent and ambition as an educator and mountain guide have taken him to many of the world's great ranges. He's guided climbing and ski expeditions throughout the contiguous United States, Alaska (including ascents of Denali and multiple first ascents/descents in the St. Elias Range), Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Nepal and Pakistan. He has also returned to Prescott College to teach as an adjunct professor in their Outdoor Education and Wilderness Leadership degree programs. In between expeditions, Joe co-founded an environmental education program in Crested Butte, Colorado, earned a masters degree in Geography at Utah State University and is a certified Ski Mountaineering Guide with the American Mountain Guides Association. Joe has been the chief of guiding operations for Sun Valley Trekking since 2000 as well as a backcountry carpenter and wood cutter for the six huts. Joe and Francie have two little girls, Neve and Soleil, who they hope will take over the trail-breaking duties in the future.