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 LORI
BENNETT
- Valdez AK resident since
97’
- Minnesota home grown
- Biology /Chemistry major at the University of MN
- USSA, NCSA nordic ski racer 86’-92’
- Nordic Ski Coach for Duluth public, Marshall private high schools
92-93’
- Outdoor Adventure Camp Director 93-94’ for city youth through
parks program; activities included : backpacking, climbing, white water
kayaking, orienteering, and leadership development camps through city
sponsorships, and pull tabs.
- Climbing instructor for University MN Outdoor Program
- Sea kayak guide for University Program
- Sailboat racing four solid seasons on J35 Papa Goucho (home favorite),
- J24s, and other 40s and 50s. Foredeck chaos is my forte.
- Climbing coordinator/asst. buyer (technical gear geek) for Midwest
Mountaineering the largest outdoor retail store in MN 94-96’.
- Rock Climbing Bum (most respectable title) 96-97
- 5.11 lead sport
- 5.10+ lead crack
- A2-A3 (aid climb) lead
- Technical Ice lead grade IV
- Mountain Skills: Four days a week of leg burning hiking (ave. 3-4000’
gain) for turns in the Valdez Chugach steep and deep. Avid telemark
skier, amateur snow boarder, my latest neurosis; Para gliding (sorry
mom).
- elevation coherency above 10,000 yet to be determined.
- Avalanche and crevasse rescue savvy, Wilderness First Responder current,
- summer glacier travel and ice climbing.
I consider myself and endurance athlete; I skied my first 50K race in March,
run mountain marathons in the summer, race mountain bikes, sea kayak guide
in the Prince William Sound, Personality glitch: commonly known to be the
first to jump into sub cold temp. water and swim till my lips are blue-
regardless of dare.
My training program for this mountain is mini chocolate donuts, an overly
zealous attitude to play hard, daily breath ceasing laughter, thumbing through
the American Alpine Journals, and medical journals on alpine mountain sickness,
and sleeping with the windows open.
The hardest part will be training myself to be an early morning person,
and to keep out of my team member’s chocolate stash.
LORI BENNETT
Valdez, Alaska
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