Andy Anderson started running and climbing in Chattanooga, Tennessee at age 13. In high school he started working at Rock Creek Outfitters. He ran competitively through college and annoyed his coaches and professors by climbing and skiing way too much. Andy worked as a climbing ranger in National Park Service for 15 summers. Since leaving the Park Service, Andy spends his summers being a dad, programming computers, guiding, running and climbing as much as he can, and keeping up with his wife (a biathete, runner, climber, skier, and climate scientist) and 10 year old son who says his favorite things are running, skiing, and biking. In the winters Andy is an avalanche forecaster for the Sierra Avalanche Center where he spend his days going up and down mountains on skis and digging holes in the snow. Andy currently hold the fastest known times on Longs Peak and the Grand Teton and the second fastest time on Mt. Whitney. He regularly places in the top five of most of the trail races he enters. Andy is also an athlete for Mammut. Since turning 40, he is hoping that his baldness will make him more aerodynamic and that he will be able to tap into that elusive “old-man-strength.”

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