Casey is a full time IFMGA Licensed Mountain Guide living in the CO front range who leads the military training and recreation programs for the Air Force Academy. He has been immersed in avalanche education and professional operations for 15 years throughout the Southwest, as well as applying his guiding and operational skills in Canada, AK, WA and the Alps.  Casey grew up in the Northeast where he put on skis and never really stepped out of them.  As a downhill racer and an avid explorer of cold mountains in his youth, he developed a love for snowy slopes leading him to a degree in Adventure Education from Green Mountain College, and eventually to CO where the peaks were higher and avalanches far more prevalent. Casey loves teaching and mentoring early career professionals, skiing fast on big mountains, and going far down the rabbit hole of avalanche science and risk management.