MEET OUR
GUIDES

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. Born and raised in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he has been pioneering river corridors throughout Southcentral Alaska since 1992.

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. 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. Tommy has been skiing and rafting the Alaska wilderness for over 25 years.

IFMGA guide since 1998. Chief Guide and General Manager of Harris Mountains Heliski, 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.

This year marks 20 years of ski guiding in Alaska for Bill, ten of those years exploring the vast Tordrillo Mountain and Neacola ranges from Tordrillo Mountain Lodge. When not in Alaska, Bill guides skiing or climbing in France, Switzerland, Italy, South America, Antarctica, Japan, and the western United States.

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 summer he is the owner/operator of Grand Fishing Adventures, Jackson's premier fly fishing guide service.

Lel grew up in Switzerland and started her skiing career in the Alps at age three. She has been a member of the Squaw Valley ski patrol since 1994 and as of 2004 became the Assistant avalanche forecaster there. She has Level 1, 2, and 3 avalanche certifications and is an AIARE Level 1 and 2 avalanche instructor.

Dave Hahn is a longtime mountain-climbing guide and ski patroller from Taos, New Mexico. He has made a specialty of leading expeditions on high, cold and remote mountains. Notable successes include his fifteen summits of Mt. Everest and 36 trips to the top of Vinson, Antarctica's high point.

Desi hails from Girdwood, Alaska, and has been an integral part of the Tordrillo Mountain Lodge team during both summer and winter programs since 2013. He spent 13 years coaching alpine ski racing and big mountain freeskiing, and now heli ski guides in both Girdwood and the Tordrillos.

Mike was raised in Anchorage and has been a part of the TML team since our beginnings. As a lifelong skier, Mike naturally gravitated to ski patrolling and avalanche control work at Alyeska Resort to compliment his position as a Battalion Chief and Paramedic at the Anchorage Fire Department.

Originally from Minnesota, Sam first came to Tordrillo Mountain Lodge as a guest in 2009, and the skiing was so good he relocated to Alaska the next spring in order to heli ski as much as possible. He started guiding heli skiing in Alaska in 2014. Sam lives in Juneau, Alaska where he operates a fly fishing guide service in the summer.

Brian Campbell is an IFMGA certified mountain guide who grew up in Park City, Utah. He is one of the few certified guides who lived on the island of Hokkaido in Japan working as a human powered, cat and helicopter ski guide. He has a personal resume including technical ski descents in Western United States, British Columbia, Alaska, and Europe.

Taylor's folks had him in ski boots as soon as he could walk and spent his early years skiing competitively in Steamboat Springs, CO. He splits his winters guiding with TML and Ski Patrolling at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Summers are spent guiding Kings and Corn and river trips on the Middle Fork Salmon River.