Professional Guiding Experience: 23 years

Bob is another of our veteran expert guides and 2024 will mark his 23rd year of professional guiding. Bob started with an early passion for the great outdoors, reinforced by many summers around New England’s lakes and mountains. Several trips as a young man to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains left him dreaming of the West and would eventually lead him to the mountains and canyons of the Colorado Plateau. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Education, with a minor in Art, where he specialized in creating stained glass and painting. While student teaching, Bob lived in a small cabin in New Hampshire’s rugged White Mountains, where he regularly explored the wilds just outside his doorstep. A year after graduation, Bob made a life changing decision to move west to Arizona.

His guiding career began in Grand Canyon leading day hikes, student travel tours and overnight backpacking, with much of the work focused in educational outdoor pursuits. He also worked a number of tours with the National Park Service performing backcountry vegetation surveys and invasive plant removal projects. Bob joined FSG as a full-time guide in 2006. He routinely receives fantastic reviews from his guests, who regularly remark on his fun, easy-going style, great sense of humor, infinite knowledge and notable professionalism. During the off-season, you won’t find him relaxing much! Bob can always be found mountain biking, skiing, hiking and exploring new areas around the Southwest