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The Guiding Life

Institute Kids!

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Working as a mountain guide provides for a strange life. However, there are a few of us who participate in “normal” activities. There are a few of us who don’t live out of a car. And indeed, there are a few of us who even have kids.

This blog is devoted to those wonderful children who are growing up with a mountain guide as a parent.

First we have a series of photos from the Kuhnleins. Peter Kuhnlein has been working for AAI since 2002. He no longer works for us full time, but does pick up trips here or there. In mid-June he successfully guided the Mountaineers Route on Mount Whitney. He and his wife Lisa run a photography studio in Anacortes. Their daughter Madelyn is 2 years and three months old. And they’re expecting another one!

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As stated above, both Jason’s and Peter’s wives are pregnant. AAI Guide Richard Riquelme’s wife is also expecting. Rest assured, there will be more news on each of these upcoming additions to the AAI family.

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