ArborTrek Canopy Adventures - Zip Line Canopy Tours in Vermont New York and Pennsylvania

Michael Smith, President

Michael is, more often than not, found in the office plotting and strategizing how to install zip lines in our cities and woods, spreading the ArborTrek mission or wrangling the phones. What he most loves about ArborTrek is the opportunity to serve people and to help families and small groups learn about themselves and the World around them. He is passionate about wild spaces, adventure education and working with new people.

Nate Vince,Course Manager

Nate is a true renaissance man. While studying art at Wayne State University in Detroit, Nate discovered his passion for climbing. In addition to frequent personal trips to crags and big walls across the United States, Nate has worked as a climbing team coach. Prior to joining the ArborTrek team, Nate specialized in custom metal fabrication for artwork and architectural pieces. In his spare time, Nate can be found bouldering in the Notch and spending time with his wife.

Jamie Legg, Asst. Course Manager

Jamie fell in love with the outdoors during his childhood trips to the Adirondacks. He moved to Vermont to attend Johnson State College and never left. Jamie comes to ArborTrek with significant experience in the outdoors, having worked as a guide for via ferrata, a ropes course instructor, certified snowboard instructor, and certified whitewater instructor. We have been fortunate to have him as part of our ArborTrek build team and program delivery team. When not working for ArborTrek, Jamie enjoys living a quiet life and spending time recreating in the outdoors.

April Edwards, Bookkeeper

A local in the truest sense (our road is named for her family), April is responsible for safeguarding and advancing the inner workings of the company. While often found locked in the office in front of multiple monitors pouring over accounts receivable, taxes, and excel sheets, she is equally at ease taking bookings, welcoming guests, or caring for and showing off her prized horses.

Rebecca Johnson

Becca Johnson is an artist, teacher and acrobat. After spending her twenties traveling to many countries around the globe, including a two-year stint in Italy where she was earning a Masters of Fine Art from American University, she finally decided to settle down, moving to Vermont for love. When not taking groups of people on treetop tours at ArborTrek, Becca can be found multi-tasking behind the front desk.

Benjamin Massey

When not guiding canopy tours or working on the AborTrek build team, Benjamin Massey can be found cruising Vermont's back roads on his '75 Honda motorcycle, scouting out new rock outcroppings to climb. He applies his background in chemistry, gained from a degree in Environmental Science from Johnson State College, in inventing new beer recipes and concocting batches of homebrew.

Christine Cramer

Having majored in Geo-spatial Technologies (map making) and Geochemistry at UVM, Christine Cramer developed a keen interest in obtaining aerial views of the terrain- the kind of views one would require in drawing out a map. This interest in the bird's eye view of life naturally led Christine to ArborTrek, where she spends her days escorting folks through the treetops of northern Vermont. When not at work, Christine keeps busy planning out her imminent trip to Portugal, and her more distant plan to hike the continental divide.

Ellen Legg

When not guiding groups of people on kayaking, bicycling, canyoneering, and ziplining tours, Ellen Legg can be found frolicking with her three playful dogs, Alpine, Nora and Syrus. Ellen’s degree in Outdoor Adventure Education, endless patience, and genuine love of teaching people new things have also served her well as supervisor of the Smuggler’s Notch ropes course for the past eleven years. When not hanging out in the trees, Ellen and her husband, Jamie, also enjoy taking their dogs for canoe and camping trips.

Josh Conway, Guide

With years of guiding Maine rivers under his belt, Josh Conway views guiding canopy tours as an aerial version of river-travel. Whether the activity is land-bound or avian in nature, if it takes place in the forest, Josh will be satisfied. When not guiding, Josh is finishing his degree at Johnson State College and subsisting off of large amounts of kielbasa and sour kraut.

Morgan Rogerson

Morgan Rogerson has the kind of levelheaded moxie that could only be earned through a childhood out in the sticks of Hardwick, Vermont. Morgan grew up rubbing elbows with moose, deer, coyotes, and fisher cats, and one frozen morning she found a black bear snoozing like a vagrant in the back seat of her family’s station wagon. Growing up with the wilds at her doorstep, Morgan could often be found in the forest, building forts out of sticks and leaves. Appreciating the mental and physical benefits of outdoor recreation, Morgan is earning a degree in Outdoor Education at Johnson State College, with a minor in Environmental Education and Psychology.

Alex Hopwood

Though Alex Hopwood is proud to be a tried and true Vermonter, staying put was simply not enough for this plucky gal with a wayfaring spirit. A true itinerant at heart, Alex has traveled to almost forty countries on all seven continents (including Antarctica), all by the tender age of 25. Two days before her first overseas expedition, Alex ate a fortune cookie whose message read, “Your winsome smile will be your sure protection”. This fortune proved to be quite accurate, both abroad and at home for Alex, whose genuine appreciation for the people, places and cultures of the world is evident in her warm smile and magnetic, amicable demeanor.

Sean Kehoe

Sean was raised on the slopes of Smugglers' Notch. An avid skier and self-proclaimed ladies man, Sean is a talented musician completing a degree in Audio Engineering from Ithaca College. When not guiding at ArborTrek, Sean can be found attacking the slopes, playing guitar, and dreaming of creating scores for movies.

Roger Lindala

Born in Canada, Roger zipped across the border while seeking a chance to study Vermont wildlife. That was more than 10 years ago and we still can't seem to get him to leave a party! The self-described "ecogeek" dreams of doing more-with-less on his Bakersfield homestead and can always be counted on to win the daily "corniest" joke contest.

Stephanie Locke

Stephanie Locke, a local Cambridge gal, earned a degree in Environmental Studies and Biology from St. Lawrence college in New York. After spending some years as a Biological Technician in the woods around the Hudson Valley studying Lyme's disease, and in the forests of Illinois studying the movement patterns of deer, she needed a change of pace. Unable to ever fully remove herself from the forest, Stephanie wound up trading those quiet, lonely observational tree stands for our more social, jovial ones. She brings plenty of ecological facts and history to her tours as she takes people zip lining through the forest she knows and loves so well.