Meet Bob & Sarah
Bob Jonas started exploring the wild as a child in Ketchum, Idaho and as a fisherman and hunter in his youth. He parlayed this early life experience into an outdoor career as a fishery biologist in Idaho, Alaska and Greenland. Then cancer struck. Post cancer therapy, Bob was a middle school teacher, wilderness ranger for the US Forest Service and Sun Valley ski instructor. In 1982, he founded Sun Valley Trekking Company, an outfitter and guide business specializing in backcountry skiing. Bob led clients in wild Idaho, Yellowstone and Alaska for 18 years. He co-authored the book Ski Magazine’s Total Skiing, Putnam, 1986. He is a graduate of the University of Wyoming, a bachelor degree in Zoology, and has a Masters in Education from the University of Idaho.
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Sarah Michael was a foot-loose kid, always out exploring Nature on her parent’s California walnut farm. Later, she combined her love for nature and adventure with a professional life helping forge public policy in California and Idaho. Sarah trekked in her beloved Sierra and remote country around the globe, especially the high Himalaya. She was in leadership positions at the California Energy Commission and as a legislative lobbyist at the state capital. At home in Ketchum, Idaho, she was a three-term Blaine Country Commissioner. Sarah is a member of the first graduating class of California’s Phitzer College.
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Since their Alaska Odyssey, Bob and Sarah’s partnership endures and the adventures continue. They got hitched on the summer solstice, 2002, at Tornak Hut in the mountains above their home in Ketchum, Idaho. Throughout the year they enjoy the central Idaho wilderness while skiing, boating, backpacking, hunting and fishing. Autumn and spring, they explore the redrock canyons of the Colorado Plateau in Utah, Arizona and Colorado or the high Sierra in California along the John Muir trail. They have returned to Alaska several times. Farther afield, they trekked for 95 days along the spine of Nepal’s high Himalaya from Kangchenjunga, third highest peak in the world to Everest, thence Annapurna, tenth highest. They’ve explored in Kenya and Tanzania on horseback and with camel support. Scuba-dived in the Pacific, Carribean and Indian oceans.
Bob and Sarah have balanced their exploration of Nature’s wilder places with a commitment to give back to Her stewardship. For details, visit the “Explore Wildness – Give Back” page.
Bob and Sarah have balanced their exploration of Nature’s wilder places with a commitment to give back to Her stewardship. For details, visit the “Explore Wildness – Give Back” page.