Karen Schwartz Karen is Howie’s wife extraordinaire, and manager of their mountain retail shop in Bishop, CA – Sage to Summit. We work with ‘S2S’ to easily outfit our guests at promotional prices. Karen is an avid backcountry skier, trail runner, and rock climber, but since 2010 she has focused her limited free time and energy on being an amazing mom. She still helps develop and guide our local and international mountain running programs and covers the office duties on …
Justin Lichter
Justin Lichter Justin really likes to hike. He grew up about an hour north of New York City and has since based himself in several locations across the US, culminating in Truckee, California, where he currently resides. Really, he has lived a good part of his adult life in the mountains carrying all he needs with him on his back. Since 2002, Justin (aka trail name “Trauma”) has hiked over 35,000 miles in the backcountry. Just to contemplate that distance, …
Howie Schwartz
Howie Schwartz SMG Lead Guide & Owner UIAGM/IFMGA Ski & Mountain Guide Howie is an international UIAGM & AMGA ski and mountain guide. He was fortunate to learn to ski as a toddler and he owned the first p-tex snowboard by Burton in 1987, which he hiked up the groomed runs of East Coast ski resorts. He discovered rock and alpine climbing in 1988 on a trip to the Tetons. The highlight was climbing the Grand Teton via the upper …
Neil Satterfield
Neil Satterfield SMG Lead Guide & Owner UIAGM/IFMGA Ski & Mountain Guide Neil is a second generation mountain guide. Born in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Neil began climbing when he was six years old. A 20 year+ resident of the Eastern Sierra, Neil enjoys the close proximity to backcountry skiing, rock climbing and alpine peaks. “After guiding and climbing in many different countries I am still in awe of how cool the East Side is. I still have more than a …