The Committee

"The Committee" is a loose confederation of mountain mavens, backcountry bozos and wilderness wombats who worked together for many years at Eugene Water & Electric Board. All shared a love of climbing. We all worked in the Conservation Department, later known as Energy Management Services, at Eugene's public utility.

Together, we have scaled many of the peaks in the Cascade Range, including Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Diamond Peak, North Sister, Middle Sister (above, with North Sister in the background), South Sister, Mt. McLoughlin (below, with Klamath Lake in the background), Mt. Scott, Mt. Thielsen and Mt. Bailey, just to name a few.

The Committee consists of fellow EWEBers Steve Still, Mark Grediagin, John Mitchell, P. Steve Stuart, Bill Welch, Bob Lorenzen and Tommy "T-Bone" Williams.  Mark was a prodigious backcountry traveler and his place over in Sunriver, Oregon provided a base for many of our expeditions into the wilderness.

Mark, or Markee as I called him, owned llamas, so we appreciated the fact that these beasts of burden could pack the heavy stuff (including beer) and all we had to do was take care of ourselves. Markee (below) passed away in 2009, but the surviving members of The Committee carry his memory with us on every backcountry trek.