Alaska, Idaho, Oregon Guides that work raft trips on the Salmon, Copper, Owyhee, Grande Ronde, for Sundog Expeditions

	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 and GAIL SIEGEL Lonnie and Gail have owned and operated Sundog Expeditions (formerly Salmon River Dories) since 1999, when they decided to make one of their dreams a reality. Lonnie has been a professional guide, operations manager, and outfitter for nearly 30 years. He began rowing in the 1970s while studying architecture at the University of Washington. Soon after graduation, he soon went to work for legendary river outfitter Martin Litton at Grand Canyon Dories. Lonnie continues to row extensively in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the Grand Canyon. Lonnie and Gail met while attending graduate school at the University of Idaho, where they earned Master of Fine Arts degrees and began their life of adventuring together. When they are not on the river or in the office, Lonnie and Gail are in their shop crafting the elegant dories you ride in or painting in their art studios. They live in Deary, Idaho with dogs Mica and Copper, and cats Daisy, Subaru, and Eight Ball.
	PETE GROSS Pete has been rowing dories and guiding professionally for more than 25 years. He rows the "Orca Bay", plays his recorder while floating through the river canyons, and strums his guitar by the evening campfire. When he's not in Idaho, Pete is rowing the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, guiding bike tours in Utah, traveling, 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 years of experience working on rivers in Idaho and Alaska. You may recognize him as one of the sweepboat guides from the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Colby holds a master's degree in special education from the University of Idaho and is a special education teacher in Troy, Idaho.
	ED JODICE Ed hails from Vermont where he the owner/operator of a heating, plumbing, and cooling business. We know that it's always good to have a plumber handy, even on the river! During a river trip several years ago, we stopped at an archeological dig along the Salmon River and learned that the archeological crew's main water pump had gone belly up...Practicing his special brand of magic, Ed had it up and running in no time and the excavation was back in business.
	KELLY NEU says... "My first taste of Sundog Expeditions was as a client on an all women's river trip down the Grande Ronde. The trip was lead by Masters of various metaphysical arts with the intent to expand our understanding of life... Well, I am still on the river and while my understanding is about the same my enjoyment of life has never been better. 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 also a licensed acupuncturist practicing and teaching in the Seattle area.
	RIC BAILEY Ric spent ten years as executive director of Hells Canyon Preservation Council. He is a conservation activist, wildlife advocate, and freelance writer. Ric is a long-time dory boatman and generously shares his extensive knowledge of environmental issues as well as the natural history of the Snake and Salmon rivers on Sundog trips.
	JESSE WEEKS Jesse, a second generation boatman, started running rivers with his parents Craig and Rita when he was about four and a half feet tall and has been at it ever since. Jesse guides in Idaho, the Grand Canyon, Cataract Canyon, and in West Virginia. During the winter months he works as a professional ski patrol at the Alta Ski Resort in Utah.
	PETER ROBERTSON
	SCOTT CHAMBERS For Scott rowing and guiding, and river trips are a family affair. Scott and his wife Susan began guiding in Idaho in the 1980's. Their young sons Kyle and Kevin already are river veterans and aspiring boatmen. Scott is a professor of economics at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon and is the founder of a Portland based financial investment firm.

	LEANNE MILLER Leanne is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin -Madison where she studied psychology. She recently moved to Los Angeles and is currently working as personal assistant. In her spare time she loves hanging out with her very special canine friend, Wyatt.
	HELMUT FLOSS
	MEREDITH REDMON
	DAVID "DOC" SEARS (1944-2004) With cherished and loving memories we will always remember our friend and colleague David Sears. He was so many things to so many people, father, husband, artist, river guide, educator, coffee king, and storyteller extraordinaire. He left for his final journey on January 22, 2004 after a brief battle with cancer. We will miss him always!

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