Joe Vallone is an AMGA Certified Rock, Alpine, and Ski Mountaineering UIAGM/IFMGA Licensed Guide

The phrase “in the moment” could have been invented for Joe. Colorful, focused and energetic, Joe’s qualities shine through in both his personal interactions as well as his accomplishments: He’s an IFMGA internationally certified guide, a professional drummer and a professional freeskier. Joe possesses a unique ability to instantly shift his undivided attention to the task at hand.

Before graduating from Colorado State University he spent three summers in Yosemite, where he climbed more than two-dozen big walls. This experience took him to Peru in 2001, where he and his partner completed a major new route on The Sphinx. He’s climbed and skied throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska and the lower 48, has appeared inmajor and minor ski films, Ford and Chevy commercials, competed in USSA Bumps and Aerials, and was a member of the Copper Mountain Freeride Ski Team for five years.

Joe has been guiding professionally for 13 years throughout the world from the pristine granite alpine spires of Rocky Mountain National Park to the jagged alpine peaks of the French Alps. He’s worked as a Heli guide in Alasksa for some time but now winters in France, working as a professional ski and mountain guide based in La Grave. Joe also spends time working in the instructor pool of the American Mountain Guides Association training the next generation of mountain guides.