Lisa Roddick: Kicking Horse’s Adventure Kickstarter
Published by Mountain Life Media on November 13, 2017
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Lisa Roddick: Kicking Horse’s Adventure Kickstarter
All is quiet at noon on Thursday at the Eagle Bump hut on Kicking Horse Mountain, where Lisa Roddick is on mountain safety dispatch, available to guide any late summer via ferrata tours that come her way.
A ski patroller since she moved to Kicking Horse seven years ago, Roddick is happy to spend her summer taking the lead as a guide for the via ferrata – she’s trying to minimize her time in the Kicking Horse bike park. “My love in the summer is whitewater kayaking and I’m trying to save my body for that.”
That body has 33 seasons of adventures under its belt, including a decade as a river and rafting guide. After school, she contemplated taking a degree in theatre, but zagged, instead of zigging, into a two-year college diploma in Outdoor Adventure instead.