Evan Stone

Team Member

Evan Stone was in graduate school back home in Madison, Wisconsin when COVID hit. He decided it was the perfect time to leave school, sell everything he owned except his climbing gear and snowboards and move into a van with his dog, Laila. For the past two years, he has chased climbing, split boarding and ski mountaineering with a passion and is now pursuing a career in the guiding industry.

Evan insists that ski season actually lasts all summer, and, in his free time, you can often find him climbing and split boarding on Mt. Hood and other Pacific Northwest volcanoes. When he isn’t out extending the ski season, he loves to hike with his dog, surf on the Oregon coast and spend time with his friends and family.

Winters, Evan works as a ski guide, and, eventually, hopes to become an avalanche educator and a heli-skiing guide (fingers crossed). But, despite spending winters away from The Gorge, (and a mobile living situation), he thinks of Hood River as home and always looks forward to his return each spring.