Joe Vallone

Joe is an IFMGA/UIAGM internationally certified guide, a professional drummer with a B.A. in music, an accomplished whitewater kayaker and a professional extreme free skier. He works for the AMGA teaching and training the next generation of ski mountaineering guides. Skiing is his main passion and Joe is as diverse a skier as they come. Having spent his whole life living and dreaming of skiing, Joe’s competition resume is one of the most diverse you will find in Free Skiing. Averaging 200 days a year on snow, Joe can be found chasing snow from your local urban rail, to a burly North Face in the Alps. He’s climbed and skied throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska and the lower 48, has appeared in major and minor ski films, Chevy and Ford commercials, Powder, Freeze, and Free skier magazines and was a member of the Copper Mountain Free ride Ski Team for five years. He guides for the Colorado Mountain School exclusively in Rocky Mountain National Park and Boulder areas.