Carolyn Parker

Carolyn grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and took advantage of opportunities to explore the wilderness in her backyard. In doing so she became a skier, a climber, a cyclist, a mountain biker and a mountain lover,—all the while hopefully developing an understanding for what truly matters.

At 23, after receiving a degree in English Literature, she finally chose the mountain path; and has been climbing, guiding, teaching and training full-time for more than a decade.

In that time, Carolyn has led women’s mountain biking clinics, telemark ski clinics, owned a climbing shoe resoling company and a guide service, run ultra-marathons, participated in quadrathlons, done first ascents, raced mountain bikes, and designed and created climbing clothing.

As a guide for the last eight years she have traveled to the Canadian Rockies, the big walls of Yosemite, the Ice of Colorado’s San Juan Mountain, the Red Rocks of Nevada, Utah’s desert towers, the Andes, the Himalayas, and the Alps.