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SUNDOG EXPEDITION'S
GUIDES AND CREW

The river is a wonderful place but our guides and crew make your experience exceptional. Sundog Expeditions has one of the most experienced and talented crews in the country. Our guides are professionals - selected for their boating, safety, culinary, and interpretive skills, as well as their years of experience, aptitude for leadership and positive attitudes They share their diverse knowledge, interests and experiences and enhance your adventure! Most of all, our guides and crew are committed to creating the best and safest participatory river trip possible !

LONNIE HUTSON Lonnie is co-owner of Sundog Expeditions (Salmon River Dories, Inc.) with Gail Siegel. He started guiding as a college student and went to work for the legendary river outfitter Martin Litton at Grand Canyon Dories in 1982 after graduating from the University of Washington where he studied architecture. Lonnie has been rowing, managing river operations, and outfitting since then. He and Gail met when they were both graduate students in art at the University of Idaho. They settled in rural Deary, Idaho, where they live with their canine companions Tundra and Copper, in a home that Lonnie designed and built. lonnie@sundogexpeditions.com
GAIL SIEGEL A native of Detroit, Gail attended art school at the University of Michigan and then worked in Miami, as a graphic designer, for 12 hot and humid years. Twenty years ago she decided to make a change and she moved out west. River rafting caught her attention, Lonnie caught her eye, and in time they created Sundog Expeditions. Gail often works behind the Sundog scene but according to Lonnie, she runs the show. Gail is currently the senior communications officer and arts liaison for the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University and has worked in the arts as a graphic designer, photographer, art gallery director, performing arts presenter and arts administrator. gail@sundogexpeditions.com
PETE GROSS Pete, fondly known by friends and associates as “dirtbag” or “dirt” for short, has been rowing dories and guiding professionally for more than 30 years. His special boat is the "Orca Bay.” Pete brings music to the river, playing his recorder by day and guitar by firelight. When he's not in Idaho, Alaska or the Grand Canyon, Pete is hanging out with his dog Josie, biking on the Slick Rock Trail or playing music at his home in Moab, Utah. Fortunately for us, he rarely finds time to use his master's degree in mechanical engineering.
COLBY HAWKINSON Colby has been working the rivers in Idaho, Oregon and Alaska since he graduated from Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore., with a business degree. He worked as a sweepboat guide on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River before joining Sundog as one of the original Alaska crew. Colby’s love for the outdoors is second only to his love of knowledge. He is a teacher at heart and went on to earn a master's degree in special education from the University of Idaho. Colby currently works for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as park ranger and interpretive guide at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, New Jersey.
KELLY NEU Kelly’s first taste of the river was as a client with Sundog Expeditions on an all-women’s trip down the Grande Ronde River. Soon after, she signed up for a Grand Canyon trip where she fell in love with rivers. She decided then and there to train as a guide and now works for Sundog in Idaho, Oregon and Alaska. Kelly says, “My conversion from client to boatman came on the Colorado river as it travels through the Grand Canyon. I saw the light or at least the bubble line and haven't been able to leave the river or it's people since." Kelly is a licensed acupuncturist and an aspiring boat builder working on her first dory.
KEVIN CHAMBERS Kevin was born to be outside and that’s where you can usually find him…playing Frisbee, tennis, capture the flag, rafting or climbing. The son of dory guides Scott and Susan Chambers, Kevin has been running rivers since he was a toddler and while young, he is became an accomplished boatman. Kevin now guides for Sundog in Idaho and Alaska and is also studying economics at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash.
ED JODICE Ed hails from Vermont where he owns and operates Advanced Heating Technologies, Inc. a plumbing, heating and cooling establishment. You never know when you’re going to need a good plumber, it even happens on river trips! A few years ago, our group stopped to visit an archeological dig along the Salmon River only to find out that their main water pump had quit...Practicing his special brand of magic, Ed had it running in no time and the excavation crew was back in business.
KENNY HUTSON Kenny is one of the newest members of the Sundog crew, but rowing must be in his genes, because he’s a natural - and his ready smile, helping hand and positive outlook make him a favorite with clients too. Kenny is a student at Western Washington University in Bellingham where he is majoring in communications, snowboarding and kayaking.
SCOTT CHAMBERS For Scott rowing, guiding, and river trips are a family affair. Scott and his wife Susan began guiding in Idaho in the 1980's. Their oldest son Kevin is already a licensed boatman and it may not be long before younger son Kyle follows suit. Scott is a professor of economics at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon and is the founder of a Portland based financial investment firm.

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