meet our guides Henry Heyman
Winter Guide
Hometown
Boulder, Colorado
Experience
3+ years with PG
Favorite activities
- Skiing,
- Whitewater Kayaking,
- Rafting,
- Gravel Biking,
- Mountain Biking,
- Mountaineering,
- Backpacking,
- Surfing
Certifications
- Wilderness EMT
- AMGA Apprentice Alpine Guide
- AMGA Apprentice Ski Guide
- AAIRE Instructor
- Avalanche Pro 1
- Experience
- 9 years working as a backcountry guide. 3 winters with Paragon.
- 2 years working ski patrol
- Fun Facts
- Lived in a hammock in the jungles of Panama for 9 months
- Have a 3 year old black lab puppy that loves to snuggle as much as he loves to ski!
- Attended a traveling kayak-development high school for a year
- About
- Been with Paragon Guides for 3+ years
- Grew up in Colorado and have always loved exploring the Rocky Mountains
- On a mission to kayak all the major rivers and creeks in Colorado
- Enjoy a proper dive bar burger and a beer after a big outing almost as much as the outing itself
- Can make a mean spicy mezcal margarita
- One of the few people in Boulder who is actually from Boulder ;)
- Can nerd out on local geology and mountain + river formations
- Moonlight as a guide, work more full-time as a sustainability manager for a real estate firm
- Never lived on the ocean, but still consider myself a surfer, maybe one day I’ll be a beach bum!
- Summer guiding work on the volcanoes in the PNW