Stowe Mountain Rescue team roster

Stowe Mountain Rescue

Team Roster

Neil Van Dyke

Neil is one of the team's founders, and has been team leader for more than 10 years. He is an active outdoorsman and also serves as Stowe's Emergency Management Director. In his spare time he operates a resort in Stowe and was named Vermont's "Innkeeper of the Year" for the year 2000.

Ed Stewart

Ed is a founding member of the team and very active in SAR. He is a dog handler as well as a search team leader for the FEMA USAR Team from Beverly, Mass. Ed works full time for the Stowe Police Dept. as a Detective Sergeant.

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.

Dennis Reinhardt

Nobody know the backcountry in Lamoille County better than Dennis. Serving as our local game warden, he spends 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 and is pictured below receiving his award from former Gov. Howard Dean.

Derek Libby

Derek has recently rejoined the team after taking a few years off. He works as a full time firefighter in Burlington, and fills in his free time as an electrician. He is also an active memeber of Stowe's Emergency Management organization.

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.

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.

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. He works for an environmental lab in Colchester.

David Selby

Dave is an outdoor enthusiast who loves all seasons, whether it's snowboarding in the winter or diving in the summer. A member of Stowe Rescue he is an EMT-B and lives in Stowe with his wife Cindy and his lab Stella. David recently sold his Vending Management Company and now spends much of his free time working as a special officer for the Stowe Police Department.

Marc Couper

Marc is an avid skier, climber, biker and kayaker. He works for NEMS as an EMT I-03 on the hospital transport team as well as volunteering for Stowe Rescue. He is currently a BS Nursing student at Norwich University .