Jessica Ary Office Manager Growing up in the flat lands of Oklahoma, Jessica spent her childhood hiking, swimming, and exploring caves. It wasn’t until she moved to California that she was introduced to mountains and the vertical world. Working as a photographer in Los Angeles, Jessica would escape the city pace to the Sierra, Joshua Tree, and Big Sur. After six years in LA, Jessica decided it was time to fully commit to her passion for the outdoors and …
Karen Schwartz
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 …
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 …