RYDER-WALKER ALPINE ADVENTURES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Customer Service Specialist / Writer / Guide
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Marketing & Operations
Eileen has lived in Telluride for 23 years and is in her 9th year with Ryder-Walker as Vice President of Marketing and Operations. She previously co-founded CEM, producers of the Chicago Marathon. Before working at RW she owned Burns Publications and was Managing Editor for several magazines. She also taught and supervised for Telluride's Ski & Snowboard School where she first met Peter Walker. Her free time is spent traveling, hiking, biking, skiing, singing and writing. At work and play her beloved companion Delilah dog is always by her side.
High Peaks of the Bavarian Tyrol is a new Ryder Walker trek which circumnavigates the highest peak in Germany, the Zugspitze. Our hike in the Bavarian Tyrol weaves its way between Germany and Austria, traveling through quaint villages decorated with painted stucco reliefs. In the Bavarian Tyrol, locals still don their traditional lederhosen, the villages are luxurious but peaceful, and the mountains rise above you with impressively jagged ridgelines.
Job Titles:
- Production Specialist / Writer
Job Titles:
- Customer Service Specialist
Guided by a former career in resort property marketing, Melanie freelances for various businesses including Ryder-Walker Alpine Adventures. She co-founded an heirloom orchard restoration project on the Western Slope of Colorado called the Apple Core Project. Currently, she manages this project and works for Ryder-Walker part-time.
She lived in Telluride for more than 20 years and moved just outside of Telluride nine years ago to plant a forest garden, cook and eat local, seasonal organic food, and spend a quieter farm life with her husband Erik, and children, Mato and Chayton. She loves to ski, mountain bike and climb in her spare time.
Rogan O'Herlihy led our Scotland hiking tour from May 18-26. Rogan is a UK native, so when he guides tours for us in Scotland and England his enthusiasm is almost impossible to... read more →
Job Titles:
- Customer Service Specialist