The Outdoor Resource Center has a highly dedicated team of employees. These employees lead trips, facilitate team building programs, belay in our climing gym, teach clinics, and serve our customers in the office. The ORC staff is available to assist you with all your Outdoor Recreation needs.

Stephanie Gorby
Co-Manager, Climbing Gym
Nickname: Gorbs and Garbage Disposal
•  Major: Geography
•  Certifications: Belay Certified
•  Favorite trip and why: somewhere in Zion National Park , the hike was in a river at the bottom of a slot cannon it was beautiful
•  Favorite Mode of travel: swinging vines
•  Favorite trail song: I like to play the song game, where you sing a lyric then the person behind you has to sing another lyric using a word from the first song lyric, and the person behind him does the same, and so on.
•  Hobbies: Young Life leader, swimming, ultimate Frisbee, Backpacking, Rock climbing, mountain biking

Chris Buck

Nickname: “The Buck”

• Major: Environmental Science Biology

• Certifications:   Nationally Registered EMT-B

• National Association of Search and Rescue SARTECH III

• Wilderness Search and Rescue – Ground Team Leader/Instructor

• American Red Cross First Aid, CPR, AED, and Wilderness First Aid Instructor

• NAUI Advanced Open Water Diver

• Low Ropes Facilitator

• Student Pilot – Glider

• Favorite trip and why: Grand Canyon backpacking: Breathtaking scenery, peaceful atmosphere, and undisturbed environment.

• Favorite Mode of travel: Soaring

• Favorite trail song: Silence is bliss

• Hobbies: Search and rescue, disaster relief, hiking, rollerblading, flying, mountain biking, volunteering, backpacking, kayaking, skiing, and rock climbing.

Michelle Mason
Nickname: -none-
•  Major: Criminal Justice
•  Certifications: Wilderness First Aid, 9-11 Emergency Telecomunicator Cert.
•  Favorite trip and why: with ORC: FOOT, it's a blast. Personally: Mt. Rainer , WA
•  Favorite Mode of travel: Cart-wheeling. Or the front seat of a cop-car.
•  Favorite trail song: I don' have a favorite trail song. But I often count out paces as I go, just for the fun of it.  I get excited every time I reach a thousand, because I am a thousand paces closer to my goal.
•  Hobbies: Working. Dancing, tumbling.

Tyler Shepard
Nickname: Twenty Pounds
•  Major: Musical Education
•  Certifications: CPR/First Aid
                         WEA member
                         ACA member
                         Leave No Trace(LNT) member
                        ORC Trip Leader
•  Favorite trip and why: His first backpacking trip where he carried two ten pound weights to use as tent weights so it would not fly away. Good times…
•  Favorite Mode of travel: Time travel
•  Favorite trail song: I will Survive
•  Hobbies: Running, Playing guitar