Outdoor Recreation Trip Leader and Guide Resume

James H. (Jim) Moss, JD

Outdoor Recreation Trip Leader & Guide Resume

Outdoor Experience Guide

  • Colorado Whitewater Expeditions: Trip Leader and Colorado Whitewater Guide Trainer. Trip Leader for all Dolores, Colorado, and Arkansas River Trips. In charge of final training for guides and guide testing
    • Arkansas River (class III through V) 2000 trips as Trip Leader
    • Dolores River (class III) 100 trips as TL
    • Colorado River, Cataract Canyon (class 10) 5 trips as TL including trip with Chief counsel Speaker of the House and Under Secretary of the Interior.
    • Colorado River, Westwater Canyon (class IV) 10 trips as TL
    • Half-day through six-day trips
  • Outdoors Unlimited: 1999
    • Colorado River, Grand Canyon
  • OARS, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004
    • Colorado River, Grand Canyon
  • NOLS, Green River, Dinosaur National Monument: Class I Utah River Guide License
  • Colorado Outward Bound School, Yampa River, Dinosaur National Monument: Class I Utah River Guide License
  • EdVentures International: Trip Leader
    • Amazon Rain Forest, Iquitos, Peru 7 day jungle trips
  • Boy Scouts of America
    • Philmont Scout Ranch, Adult Leader, 1993 12-day treks
  • Gunflint Outfitters, 2004 Boundary Waters Canoe Area, canoe trip; Trip Leader
  • Argentina, Canada, Colorado & Mexico, Mountaineering: Head Guide
  • Grand Canyon Private River trips, 12 trips at Trip Leader 5 trips as participant & raft guide
Teaching/ Instructor Experience
  • Outdoor Recreation Law and Insurance, Outdoor Recreation Guide Program

Instructor

  • Wilderness First Responder
  • Emergency Medical Technician
  • Outdoor Recreation Liability Seminar (2 days)
  • Swift Water Rescue

Instructor

  • Rock Climbing1982–1984    Ohio State University    Columbus, OH
Medical/First Aid Training
  • St Anthony’s Hospital EMT course
Outdoor Programming Experience Boy Scouts of America
1977–1980    Boy Scouts of America    Wheeling, WV

District Executive

  • Organized Planned and promoted outdoor adventure programs for youth
  • Program Manager Summer Camp

Training

  • BSA National Camping School
  • BSA National Leadership School
  • BSA National Camping School Climbing Director
Member (or former member) Board of Directors
  • Trade Association of Paddlesports
  • Galapagos Preservation Society
  • Galapagos Conservation Action
  • Colorado Alliance of Environmental Education
Misc
  • Chosen by the Department of the Interior to TL River Trips for dignitaries
  • Chosen by ORCA (now OIA) to TL ORCA Industry River Trips

James H. (Jim) Moss

Recreation.law@gmail.com

720 334-8529

www.recreation-law.com

PO Box 16743, Golden, CO 80402