Neil Van Dyke
Neil is one of the team's founders, and has been team leader for more than 15 years.
He is an active outdoorsman and also serves as Stowe's Emergency Management Director. He is currently President of the Mountain Rescue Association. In his spare time he operates a resort in Stowe, and was named Vermont's "Innkeeper of the Year" for the year 2000. He spends summers working part-time for the New York State Forest Rangers in the Adirondack Park.
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Edward Stewart
Ed is a founding member of the team and very active in SAR.
He is a search team leader for the FEMA USAR Team from Beverly, Mass. Ed is a recently retired Detective Sergeant for the Stowe Police Dept.
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Doug Veliko
Doug is the team's most accomplished technical rock and ice climber, and is currently our training officer.
He frequently climbs in New Hampshire, Colorado, Nevada, California and is pictured below in the Bugaboos. He works at IBM in Essex Jct.
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Dennis Reinhardt
Dennis served for many years as our local game warden, spending much of his working and non-working hours in the woods around Stowe.
Dennis was named the Vermont Game Warden of The Year for 2000 by the Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife. In 2009 Dennis was promoted to Major, the assistant director of law enforcement for the Vermont Game Wardens.
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Derek Libby
Derek works as a full time firefighter in Burlington, and fills in his free time as an electrician. He is also an active member of Stowe's Emergency Management organization. |
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Graham Govoni
Graham is an avid ice climber and serves as the team's pro bono legal counsel. He also volunteers with Morristown Rescue and was awarded the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Citizenship Award for the year 2000. |
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Tim Burdick
Tim is the team's Medical Officer.
He works as a family physician in Montpelier and rides with Waterbury Ambulance. He has been involved with wilderness medicine for more than 20 years, and he was recently honored as a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.
Tim is an experienced hiker and paddler, having guided in Alaska, Utah, and West Virginia.
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Chris Anderson
Chris enjoys many types of outdoor activities year round.
He volunteers as a ski patroller at Smuggler's Notch and is an EMT-B with Morristown Rescue.
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Marc Couper
"Coup" is an avid skier, climber, biker and kayaker.
He is an RN-BSN on a Cardiothoracic/Vascular Surgery Unit at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington. Coup volunteers for Stowe Rescue as an EMT-I03 and is also a WEMT. He holds certifications in ACLS,PALS, PHTLS, ABLS, SWR I and II, Avalanche Level I, Ice Rescue & HAM General Level 3.
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Greg Speer
Greg spends much of his time hiking, climbing and skiing the backcountry around Stowe.
He has a business making rustic furniture, and works winters as a cross country instructor, groomer, and a backcounrty ski and snowshoe guide.
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Tracey Eykelhoff
Trace is the team's expert skier and knows the backcountry ski trails around Stowe as well as anybody. He also enjoys the vertical rock and ice environment. "Spike" has worked for many years as a ski patroller at Mt. Mansfield. |
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Todd Westervelt
Todd is an avid back-country skier, hiker, and cyclist. He knows the trails and woods around Mount Mansfield well as he spends much of his spare time exploring the Stowe backcountry during the four seasons.
He enjoys a career working for IBM designing computer chips
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