Our Team

Eriks Suchovs
General Manager / Lead Guide

With STHS for 32 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Providing guests with a remarkable experience and working with employees who enjoy what they’re doing!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 30+ years in and around Revelstoke mostly.

Tell us about yourself! Happily married for 20+ years with 2 kids, Andreas who is 17 and working part time at STHS and Chloe who is 15.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Tangiers Glacier (Selkirks North)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I have a business degree and I am originally from Latvia.

Jeff Honig
Lead Guide / Operations Manager

With STHS for 17 years.

Hometown: Ottawa, ON

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Apres ski jubejubes!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 15+ years guiding around Revelstoke and Western Canada.

Describe your guiding experience: I have a diverse guiding background including ski touring, rock and ice climbing, and mountaineering. I’ve been fortunate to work in lots of interesting places in Western Canada, the USA, and the European Alps.

Tell us about yourself! I have a 7 year old girl named Sienna, and a 5 year old girl named Lilla. They are keen skiers!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Mt. McDonnell (Selkirk South)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I really enjoyed the TV show ‘Sons of Anarchy’ and I’m sad that it’s over now.

Darek Glowacki
Lead Guide

With STHS for 10 years.

Hometown: Bielsko-Biala, Poland

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The incredible ski terrain and working with great friends!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Canadian trained IFMGA Mountain Guide

Describe your guiding experience: Mountaineer and rock climbing guide in the summer, heli ski guide in the winter.

Tell us about yourself!  I have a beautiful and tolerant wife plus two super funny kids who look like me. What more could you ask for!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Gotta be Double Trouble (Selkirks South)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? Come ski with me and find out…

Alex Nadeau
Lead Guide

With STHS for 11 years.

Hometown: Montreal, QC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The skiing and the team!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 12 years of guiding, mostly around Revelstoke, BC.

Describe your guiding experience: Three years of cat ski guiding prior to working for STHS, and I usually do some ski-tour guiding each year also.

Tell us about yourself! I have a beautiful partner, Mireille, who also works for STHS. We have a two year old son named Maurice. He doesn’t ski yet, but he’s a great hockey player!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Alex, of course!

Andre Normandeau
Lead Guide

With STHS for 31 years.

Hometown: Golden, BC (via Quebec!)

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The skiing and the staff interaction.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Mainly in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks.

Describe your guiding experience: I helped pioneer and develop the Selkirk Lodge along with the terrain around the Albert Canyon area.

Tell us about yourself! I work in carpentry and love riding my bike on backcountry roads in the summer. I am religious about playing disc golf every Thursday. Tammy, my wife works as a school bus (cheese wagon) driver and we enjoy hiking with our dog, Lexus on the single track biking trails near our home.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Tangiers Glacier always excites me! (Selkirks North)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I love being chased down my favourite ski lines at STHS.

Dave Scott
Lead Guide

With STHS for 9 years.

Hometown: Innisfail, Alberta

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The people I work with (for real!) and the mind blowing ski terrain.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? This is my 22nd season as a heli ski guide. I worked with CMH for 14 years prior to joining STHS.

Describe your guiding experience: Varied! Includes ski touring and summer alpine & rock guiding. I’ve spent my entire heli ski guiding career in the West Columbia near Revelstoke!

Tell us about yourself! My partner, Julie, two teenage daughters, Rebecca and Mia, plus our Schnoodle dog, Milou, have been in Revelstoke for a long, long time.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Outsulation (Selkirks South)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I have been accused of loving powder skiing more than anyone! People make fun of me because I always have the best day ever!

Dave Sproule
Lead Guide

With STHS for 12 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke via North Vancouver, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Amazing team and endless terrain with so much variety.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Guiding for 14 years. Trained in the mountains of Western Canada and the USA.

Describe your guiding experience: Started out ski touring, cat skiing and heli skiing at various operations in BC before finally finding the place where I wanted to settle into (STHS). I spent a season heli skiing and ski touring in Mt. Cook, New Zealand. I do some instructional rope courses in the Spring.

Tell us about yourself! My wife and I have been together for 19 years and have two amazing clones, 11 and 9 years old who are into everything! We also have a new puppy and an old cat. Oh, and a resident black bear who loves to eat our garden!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Tree run – Magicline. High alpine – Southern Justice

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I like to have FUN! I also enjoy skiing runs that I’ve personally gladed as part of our off-season tenure maintenance, or new unskied runs that still exist in our very large tenure.

Pierre Gagnon
Ski Guide / Lead Guide

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Heli skiing in one of the best tenure areas in the world.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Guiding since 2005. Trained all over BC and Alberta and well as Europe and South America.

Describe your guiding experience: 10 years heli skiing. Ski touring guide in South America for four seasons. Many ski touring weeks guiding in BC’s great backcountry lodges.

Tell us about yourself! I have a lovely wife named Elodie, a 7 year old son, Gael, and a 4 year old daughter named. We also have a dog called Cimba.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Too many to have a favourite. Tangiers Glacier is spectacular. 1,800m from alpine peak to old growth forest in valley bottom. Outsulation also has amazing tree skiing.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I learned to ski on a 300m vertical ski hill!

Quinn Castillo
Ski Guide / Lead Guide

With STHS for 8 years.

Hometown: Salmon Arm, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Great staff, great guests, great skiing!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Guide training done mostly around Yamnuska, Sol Mountain, Purcell Lodge and Robson Heli Magic.

Describe your guiding experience: Have been working as a guide for 11 years.

Tell us about yourself! Living in Revelstoke with my wife, Jody and our kids, Wyatt and Maelle.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Serac (Selkirks South). Nice scenery, never lets you down.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I like kite surfing, mountain biking and travelling. Plus, I have a physics degree.

Cecelia Mortenson
Ski Guide

With STHS for 6 years.

Hometown: Like a migratory bird, depends on the season! Winter: Revelstoke. Summer: Squamish.

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The fabulous people! From the great guides and team working in every corner of STHS to the fun guests who love to ski with us.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I’ve been guiding in some capacity for 16 years. I did all my formal guide certifications in Canada, but learned to climb and ski in the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest USA.

Describe your guiding experience: I work year round as a guide. From climbing big mountains in Alaska, to rock climbing perfect cracks in Squamish, or working with scientists in Antarctica to my favorite ‘job’ of all – going heli skiing in the Selkirk Mountains.

Tell us about yourself! The love of my life is my 13 year old niece – who lives in Tokyo, Japan and is a blast to go skiing with.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? My favourite commonly skied runs are Swiss Miss and Grizzly Den (Selkirks South). However, the best run I’ve skied so far is Paradise – a georgous Glacier run down to valley bottom.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I absolutely love to do handstands.

Simon Meis
Ski Guide

With STHS for 7 years.
Hometown: Canmore, AB

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Working with people that love what they’re doing. And the skiing.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 7 years after completing my training in Western Canada.

Describe your guiding experience: I have been a ski guide at Selkirk Tangiers for five years now, but I also been worked as a ski touring and ice climbing guide. In the summer I guide alpine and rock climbing.

Tell us about yourself! I live in Canmore with my girlfriend, Jaime. We joke that she gave birth to her PhD and that was enough parenting for her.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Outsulation (Selkirk South)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? When the snow melts my passion for skiing is replaced by an obssession with rock climbing. In shoulder seasons I like to travel to foreign climbing destinations, especially ones with good food and weather!

Kate Devine
Ski Guide

With STHS for 6 years.
Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Going skiing and learning from a great team of guides!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 2 years guiding. Training done in Interior BC, the Rockies and the Coastal Mountains.

Describe your guiding experience: It’s my 2nd season guiding and I am happy to be doing a mix of heli skiing and ski touring.

Tell us about yourself! No kids, but I have a 5 year old Husky mutt who loves to shred pow!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? There are too many to pick one! I love steep trees on stormy days and long alpine runs in the sun.

Joey Vosburgh
Ski Guide (Splitboard)

With STHS for 5 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Lots! If I have to pick, I’d say the size and diversity of the terrain. The team is amazing too!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I’ve been training and guiding for 5+ years, mainly in the Revelstoke area. I’d call Rogers Pass and the Monashees my stomping grounds!

Describe your guiding experience: Learning from the crew here at STHS!

Tell us about yourself! I live in Revelstoke with my sweetie, Danyelle, and our two blue heelers, Ben & Ella.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Haven’t rode them all yet, but I’d put Oscar, Kodak (Selkirks South) and Hat Trick (Monashees) on my favourites list.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I really like winter.

Larry Kelly
Apprentice Guide

With STHS for 5 years.
Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Great guiding team, always upbeat! Also, bacon in the morning every day.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Many years as a professional ski patroller in the Rockies, France, New Zealand and Revelstoke. I entered the ACMG Ski Guide program in the 2012-13 season.

Describe your guiding experience: This is my fourth season as a Tail Guide with STHS & Revelstoke Mountain Resort Cat-Skiing

Tell us about yourself! I have a four year old daughter nicknamed “Skiin’ Cian” along with my wife, Christine.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Montana Chute, long and tons of fun features! (RMR Cat Skiing)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I am a huge NBA basketball fan, and had an article published on NBA.com during the summer of 2013.

Tomoaki Fujimura
Tail Guide / Japanese Translator

With STHS for 4 years.
Hometown: Osaka, Japan

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Meeting new people from all over the world and learning every day.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Since 2005; Selkirk Wilderness Skiing, Powder Cowboy Cat Skiing, Fernie Wilderness Cat Skiing.

Describe your guiding experience: I mainly work as a hiking guide in the summer and act as a tour guide for Japanese clients in the Canadian Alps and Canadian Rockies on a year-round basis.

Tell us about yourself! I have a 4 year old son, Taiki.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Tangiers Glacier (Selkirks North)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? Working as a tail guide for STHS and over 8 years with the RMR Ski Patrol, I can share many secret stashes. The Ninja Traverse at RMR was actually one of my projects. Come find me!

Igor Bernas
Ski Guide

With STHS for 4 years.

Hometown: Durango, Basque Country, Spain

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Being able to share my passion about skiing with guests and guides. Oh, and for sure skiing amazing powder!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I’ve been training and guiding for 5 years, mainly around Revelstoke. I usually train in Rogers Pass.

Describe your guiding experience: I’ve been guiding at different backcountry lodges including: Sol Mountain Lodge, Icefall Lodge and Snowfall lodge as well as some Cat Skiing lodges.

Tell us about yourself! Originally from the Basque Country, I grew up surrounded by mountains and spent most of my free time climbing, hiking and skiing. After I completed a degree in Electronic Engineering I came to Canada to travel, climb and live a new adventure. It’s been over 9 years since then!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Serac (Selkirks South)

Will Woods
Tail Guide

With STHS for 3 years.

Hometown: Calgary, AB

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Helping people have awesome experiences out in the mountains.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I am currently enrolled in the ACMG Ski Guide Training program.

Describe your guiding experience: I have been guiding hiking, backpacking and whitewater canoeing for the last 17 years all over Western Canada, including trips to Baffin Island and Australia. I am new(er) to ski guiding, but am enjoying the challenge of learning and growing professionally.

Tell us about yourself! My wife, Allison, and I live in Golden, BC and get out adventuring in the mountains as often as possible.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I bake a mean cheesecake.

John Lutrell
Ski Guide

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The great group of people I get to work with.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I guided 18 seasons with CMH and 7 years before that heli skiing around Whistler, BC. I trained to be a guide mostly in the Rockies and around the Lake Louise area.

Describe your guiding experience: As an IFMGA certified guide, I have worked in many heli-ski areas throughout British Columbia as well as guiding climbing in many corners of the globe including the Alps.

Tell us about yourself! I love living in Revelstoke year-round with my wife, Lucie, and our teenage boys, Theo and Simi.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? The next run I get the chance to ski.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I am a confirmed tree skiing addict!

Kenton Lambert
Tail Guide

With STHS for 3 years.

Hometown: Goderich, ON

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The team, the snow, the terrain, and the guests. What more could you ask for?

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I have been guiding for 2 years now. I did most of my training in the beautiful Rocky Mountains at Marmot Basin while conducting avalanche control at the ski hill.

Describe your guiding experience: I enjoy a mix of mechanized skiing and ski touring. All of the guiding I have done so far has been in Alberta and British Columbia, because why go elsewhere when the best snow and terrain is here. I also teach some introductory avalanche safety courses.

Tell us about yourself! Not much else to know really. I love skiing in the winter and mountain biking in the summer. I have a pet lizard named Nemo who keeps me company at home.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? I love the tree skiing on Badger or The Lumberyard, but there’s just too many to choose from!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I once taught snowblading as an instructor in Ontario before moving west. If you’ve never tried snowblades, they used to be the bomb!

Aaron Chance
Tail Guide

With STHS for 3 years.
Hometown: Chetwynd, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Outstanding terrain!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 2nd year of actual guiding; I did most of my training in the Rockies & Columbia Mountains.

Describe your guiding experience: Tail guiding for STHS, plus some ski touring practicum work.

Tell us about yourself! I have an amazing daughter named Lilli!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Tangiers (Selkirks North)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I have worked in a red jacket before… as a professional ski patroller!

Bianca Willard
Apprentice Guide

With STHS for 3 years.

Hometown: St-Maurice, QC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Skiing sweet powdery lines… and the team!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Having lived for a long time in Golden and more recently in Revelstoke, I did most of my skiing in the Rockies and Selkirks, but also on the Coast and in South America. Maybe Europe next year…

What’s your favourite run at STHS? SFD

Bob Shafto
Ski Guide

With STHS for 3 years.

Hometown: Moved from Banff to Revelstoke in 1989.

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The team of experienced staff make working here so much fun!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Guiding for 21 years, mostly in Alberta and BC.

Describe your guiding experience: I really love making my guiding adventures the guests’ adventures.

Tell us about yourself! I am so lucky to have really nice kids – one of my own and two step kids. They rock and so does their mom!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? All of them!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I’m just learning how to ski – tips are welcome!

Dave Crerar
Tail Guide

With STHS for 2 years.

Hometown: Was Dublin, IR, now Edmonton, AB!

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? 1. Flying in helicopters, 2. Skiing powder, 3. Meeting people from all over the world!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? This is my first year – I’m looking forward to training and learning from the incredibly diverse team at STHS.

Describe your guiding experience: I guided whitewater kayaking and rafting on the Ottawa river for years, ski patrolled in Kelowna, BC for a few years, and now I am working towards joining the ACMG Assisant Ski Guide program.

Tell us about yourself! I’m an Irish-born, split-boarding, mountain-loving addict.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? When I’m not snowboarding I like to kayak the most challenging white water I can find!

Adam Zok
Tail Guide

With STHS for 2 years.

Hometown: Santa Barbara, CA

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The extremely professional staff that still can let their sense of humour come through. I really love that! Of course, scoring high quality skiing is near the top of my list as well.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I’ve been guiding in the mountains since 2013, training primarily in California, Wyoming, Alaska, and British Columbia. However, nothing compares to the varied terrain and consistent ski quality found in Revelstoke!

Describe your guiding experience: During the spring and summer months I lead mountaineering trips, glacier seminars, ski descents, and rock climbs based out of Mt. Shasta, California.

Tell us about yourself! The people closest to me are scattered all over the world it seems. I move and travel quite a bit!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Playful treeline ares and anything glaciated!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? Before becoming a ski bum, I considered a career in astrophysics. I’ve never looked back.

Sean Cochrane
Tail Guide

With STHS for 2 years.

I went from competing on the FIS Nor-Am/Europa Cup DH circuit to some appearances on the Freeskiing World Tour, and some local Canadian Big Mountain Competitions.

These days it’s all about exploring and skiing the deepest powder possible while documenting it to get people stoked to do the same!

Hometown: Revelstoke

Years of skiing / riding experience: 30

Sponsors: Dynastar/Lange/Look, Mountain Hardwear, Smith Optics, DissentLabs, Intuition Liners, Hitcase, Revelstoke Mountain Resort.

What is the best thing about skiing / riding & living in Revelstoke? Ease of access to countless world class mountains.  Revelstoke has one of the best resorts in North America.  Everyone is a “black diamond” shredder.  Oh, and the snow quality is pretty good too!

Describe your style on the mountain? Fast and fun.