The Wilderness House Boston Team

Douglas Fidellow
Hometown: Somers, NY
Now Residing: Boston, MA
Sunny summer days you’ll find me: Enjoying the outdoors
When it’s snowing: Head North
Wilderness Hero: Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Outdoor adventures
Where do you do it: The Northeast
Hidden Talent: Environmental Engineer
Inner Animal: Wildebeest

Seth Samson
Hometown: Mt.Kisco, NY
Now Residing: Boston, MA
Sunny summer days you’ll find me: Mtn Biking in Sedona, AZ
When it’s snowing: Making hot coco
Wilderness Hero: Does Bo Bo the Bear count?
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Hiking
Where do you do it:NH
Hidden Talent: Great Cook
Inner Animal: Nittany Lion, GO STATE!

William McSherry
Hometown: Sherborn, MA
Now Residing: Kittery, ME
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: long bike, hiking in the mountains, or trying to figure
out how to surf.
When it’s Snowing: skiing and enjoying the alpine environment and its culture.
Wilderness Hero: Ernest Shackleton
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Alpine Skiing
Where do you do it: Any mountain anywhere.
Hidden Talent: Telekinesis
Inner Animal: Osprey

Mark Beckley
Hometown: Amherst, NH
Now Residing: Reading MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: Hiking the whites
When it’s Snowing: Skiing with the family
Wilderness Hero: David Brashears
Favorite Wilderness Activity: white water rafting/creeking
Where You Do It: Contoocook
Hidden talent: Computer builder
Inner Animal: Bear

Jack Stevens
Hometown: Mayberry (small hick town in NC that the Andy Griffin show was modeled after)
Now Residing: Cambridge MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: Kiteboarding
When it’s Snowing: Powder day- Snowboarding/Snowkiting
Wilderness Hero: David Breashears
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Snowboarding
Where You Do It: Jay Peak VT.
Hidden talent: Cooking
Inner Animal: Snow Fox

Tom Casserly
Hometown: Holliston MA
Now Residing: Boston MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: At the beach, or in the water surfing/kitesurfing if there’s wind or waves, usually in Newport RI
When it’s Snowing: I’m in the woods chasing deeper snow, follow the pink helmet…
Wilderness Hero: Gerry Lopez
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Boardsports, winter snowboard, summer surf
Where You do it: Wherever the weather tells me to go. Chase the powder, chase the waves, chase the storms!
Hidden Talent: Driving, give me a racetrack or give me a parallel parking spot with 2 inches, I got it.
Inner Animal: Tiger shark

Luke Graham
Hometown: Reading MA
Now Residing: Metro Boston
Sunny Summer days you’ll find me: Developing new boulder problems, working old ones, scoping new places to climb.
When it’s snowing: Reading and writing about climbs and checking out new gear.
Wilderness Hero: Dave Macleod, Scottish Climber
Where do you do it: All over, Cathedral Ledge, Pawtuckaway, Gloucester, and some secret crags
Hidden Talent: I’m a song and dance man.
Inner Animal: Cephalopod

Dexter Perry
Hometown: Walpole MA
Now Residing: Waltham MA
Sunny summer days you’ll find me: Mountain biking in the morning, beach in the afternoon
When it’s snowing: Taking laps on Mittersill
Wilderness Hero: Doug Coombs
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Backcountry skiing
Where do you do it: Mt. Washington, or anywhere in the Whites
Hidden Talent: Collegiate football player
Inner Animal: Coyote

Joshua Willis
Hometown: Gilford, NH
Now Residing: Brookline, MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: On the beaches of Cape Cod
When it’s Snowing: Black & White Photography
Wilderness Hero: E. O. Wilson: Conservationist/ Evolutionary Biologist at Harvard University
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Camping / Hiking
Where You Do It: Pacific Coast, Washington & Oregon
Hidden talent: Artist / Painter
Inner Animal: Octopus

Alex Vaughn
Hometown: Hampton, NJ Now Residing: Boston, MA Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: With any luck, at the Jersey Shore When it’s Snowing: Mount Snow, VT Wilderness Hero: Gene Simmons Favorite Wilderness Activity: Snowboarding Where You Do It: Mount Snow Hidden Talent: Guitar, Bass, Drums Inner Animal: Chicken-Peacock

Jessica Ellis
Hometown: Metro Boston
Now Residing: Boston, MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: Going for a long walk, drawing
When it’s Snowing: Whenever possible, I will be riding (snowboarding).
Wilderness Hero: My mom is my wilderness hero. Though her knees present an increasing problem, she is always outdoors, tracking some new animal, drawing a newfound feather, dissecting an owl pellet, or collecting edible wild foods. Rock on, moms!
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Ummm, riding much?
Where You Do It: Given my druthers, I would ride Jay Peak all the time.
Hidden talent: I can sit for hours and draw architecture, nature, or the human form.
Inner Animal: Probably a wolf—I’m very social, but I don’t stay in one place for too long, and you should avoid making me mad

Alec Toutant
Hometown: Madison, WI
Now Residing: Allston, MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: On the water, kitesurfing or wakeboarding
When it’s Snowing: I’ll be sliding on it
Wilderness Hero: Jeremy Jones (Rossignol)
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Snowboarding
Where You Do It: In the woods!
Hidden talent: Jazz Hands
Inner Animal: Jackalope

Daniel Cossette
Hometown: Gilford NH
Now Residing: Allston MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: Backpacking in the Whites or floating down the Pemi river
When it’s Snowing: Skiing/shoveling my parents roof
Wilderness Hero: Stephen Hawking
Favorite Wilderness Activity: Skiing
Where You Do It: Loon or Cannon Mtn
Hidden talent: Fluid Dynamics
Inner Animal: Crab… I’m a scavenger

Joe Whitaker
Hometown: Queensburg, NY
Now Residing: Boston, MA
Sunny Summer Days You’ll Find Me: Hiking, camping, fishing
When it’s Snowing: Skiing
Wilderness Hero: Shane McConkey
Favorite Wilderness Activity: skiing
Where You Do It: Northeast
Hidden talent: Wrestling
Inner Animal: Mountain Lion