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Meet Our Guides
An Olympic gold medalist, a mountain-climbing guide who has reached the summit of Mt. Everest 15 times, and a doctor who has spent over 10 years heli skiing are just a few of the guides you’ll meet at Tordrillo Mountain Lodge. Our certified Alaska heli skiing guides are easily among the most experienced in all the world—and, we think, the most fun-loving.
Mike Overcast
Co-Owner & Guide
We call him Overchill. After 20 years of pioneering and guiding heli terrain, along with his extensive experience as a snow blaster, avalanche consultant, and wilderness guide, Mike Overcast has become regarded as an expert in anything that involves snow in Alaska, having guided skiers in Valdez, Girdwood, Seward, Hatcher Pass, and in the Tordrillo and Neacola Mountain ranges.
In addition to being an owner of Tordrillo Mountain Lodge, he was a founding partner of Chugach Powder Guides where he worked with some of the best avalanche experts in the industry including Dave Hamre and Frank Coffey.
Born and raised in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he has been pioneering river corridors throughout Southcentral Alaska since 1992 when he and business partner Tommy Moe started their first outfitting business, guiding guests down some of the most difficult whitewater rivers in Alaska. Today, he splits his time between Jackson Hole and Tordrillo Mountain Lodge, spending winters skiing and boarding and summers fishing and running whitewater. Mike’s certifications are WFR, OEC, Level 3 Mechanized Heli ski guide, and BLS.
Tommy Moe
Co-Owner & Guide
Since his grade school days when his father let him play hooky to ski powder, Tommy Moe knew that the sport would be part of his future. What he didn’t know was that he would become a world cup contender and take home an Olympic gold medal. In 1994, at the winter games in Lillehammer, Norway, Moe won the downhill by .04 of a second, followed by a silver in the Super G.
He also didn’t know that he would strike gold again when he discovered skiing in the Tordrillos. As a partner and founder in Tordrillo Mountain Lodge, Moe finds the greatest reward in sharing the property and newly-discovered terrain with skiers and snowboarders seeking the trip of a lifetime, whether it’s a week of powder skiing in the winter, whitewater rafting the Tal and Coal Creek or paddle boarding under the summer midnight sun.
Tommy has been skiing and rafting the Alaska wilderness for over 25 years. He has intimate knowledge of the mountains and rivers and has been a certified WFR since 2000. He resides in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife Megan Gerety and two young daughters Taylor and Taryn.
Mike Rheam
Co-Owner & Guide
A Jackson, Wyoming, resident, Mike keeps his head in the snow during the winter months running the avalanche program of the
Jackson Hole
Ski Patrol as well as forecasting for one of the top avalanche centers in the world, the
Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center
. In the summer months he is the owner/operator of
Grand Fishing Adventures
, Jackson’s premier fly fishing guide service and shop. He has skied Alaska since the early heli skiing pioneering days of the early nineties. Top priorities for Mike are floating and skiing with his wife and daughter, who are both better skiers than he is.
Hugh Barnard
Head Guide
“Kiwi” Hugh has been rattling around mountains for as long as he can remember. A misspent youth passed in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, Jackson Hole, and Chamonix left him with few career options so he became a mountain guide, qualifying as an IFMGA guide in 1998. He has been
heli skiing
since 1993 and has been Chief Guide and General Manager of Harris Mountains Heliski in his home town of Wanaka, New Zealand, since 1998. Hugh has spent time as the Chief Guide of Himachal Heliski in the Indian Himalaya and running heli ski trips to Western Greenland and Siberia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, exploring new terrain and sharing this experience with guests from all over the globe. Hugh has spent further stints heli guiding in British Columbia and Valdez, Alaska, and ski toured extensively from his family’s European base in Chamonix.
Having accompanied guests to TML in the past, Hugh claims to have found his spiritual home in the Tordrillos and joins the guiding team this season on a full-time basis as Director of Heliski Operations.
When not heli skiing, Hugh runs production, locations, and safety services to film crews specializing in logistics support in challenging environments, work that has taken him to most continents. When not working, Hugh is generally found in the surf.
Bill Dyer
