2018 Year in Review, "On the Clock"
That annual tradition. Wherein I spell out some details. Most notably, I feel like I have finally started this guiding career. Financially, I am making a living. It isn't fat and happy, and I hustle hard, but I'm doing grown-up things like owning a house, contributing to retirement accounts, and paying my way on service trips.
In no particular order:
In no particular order:
- 140 days of field guiding
- Four US states and two foreign countries
- 44 trips had a specific goal (peak or route) in mind. Of those, we made the summit or completed the route 38 times. That's a "sending percentage" of 86%. That's significantly greater than average, for me.
- 17 days of Alpine guiding
- 5 days of Ice guiding
- 48 days of Rock guiding
- 70 days of ski guiding. This is the first year in which half my work has been on skis. Two months in Chile helped a ton!
- 101 days as an employee of another company
- 39 days working for my own company
- 90 days were with returning clients or clients that came directly to me in some fashion.
- 106 days I worked in the field largely or entirely without a co guide
- 34 days I worked directly with at least one other co guide
- 34 nights in a tent in the wilderness
- 40 nights away from home in other accommodations, for work