John Barkhausen
AMGA Single Pitch Instructor
City: Wenatchee
Province: WA
Bio: I grew up in the mid-west with the good fortune of having an adventurous family. We would go camping, hiking, skiing, and most often whitewater canoeing and kayaking. When I was 20, I moved to Salt Lake City and taught skiing at Alta, as well as tapped into a community of great people who loved getting outside. This is where I learned to really climb. I then went back to college at Prescott College where that community grew and I fell deeper in love with getting outdoors and teaching the skills involved with climbing, skiing, backpacking, and leading. Since college, I have bounced around, from job to job and state to state, having the opportunity to go on adventures in many places and guide a wide variety of people and activities, both here in the U.S. and internationally. Currently, I instruct High School students in outdoor education programs with the White Mountain School in New Hampshire.
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- AMGA Single Pitch Instructor
- AMGA Rock Instructor
Specialities
AMGA: American Mountain Guides Association
The American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) is a 501(c)(3) educational non‐profit that is dedicated to supporting the American mountain guiding community. Their mission is to be the leader in education, standards, and advocacy for professional guides and climbing instructors.
As the leading organization of America’s most vibrant, inspiring community of climbers and skiers, the AMGA offers you cutting edge knowledge and hundreds of years of collective experience that you won’t get from any other climbing organization.