TPM Episode 425: Doug Workman, Legendary Mountain Guide
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Doug Workman is a legendary ski guide out of Jackson Hole who cut his teeth climbing in Connecticut before he started traveling the world to guide and ski. From patrolling at JHMR to expeditions to Pakistan, China, Alaska, and Antarctica, to climbing throughout Europe and North America, to working with media outfits like National Geographic, Warren Miller Entertainment, and Teton Gravity Research, Doug has done it all in the ski industry. His interesting takes on risk, look back on the AK heli wars, the Tsaina Lodge days make this a fun listen. Tim Petrick asks the Inappropriate Questions
Doug Workman Show Notes:
4:00: Nick McNutt, beacons, his work with Mammut on The Barryvox S2 beacon development, and products that saved him
13:00: Skiing in Connecticut, his brother Jed, climbing in wrestling shoes, moving to Colorado and the quintessential 90’s climber/skier hippy
19:30: Stanley: The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners. Check out Stanley1913.com
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22:30: Pakistan with Jimmy Chin, Simpson House, not skiing at the resort, Jackson Hole Air Force, Doug,, VHSG, and Don Sharif, and heli wars
41:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
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43:00: Tsaina Lodge, skiing for work, and why it’s more fun off the clock, money guiding trips, and close calls
52:00: Death and his interesting take on education vs risk
61:00: Inappropriate Questions with Tim Petrick
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.3 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell movement. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to the Powell movement. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm your host Mike Powell, |
| 0:18.4 | and the past two weeks have been the most painful two weeks of my life. |
| 0:21.6 | More painful than when I had a testicle the size of a grapefruit when I was 13 and I was taken from my bar mitzvah rehearsal |
| 0:28.6 | in an ambulance to the hospital until the day before my big day when I turned to be a man at 13. |
| 0:33.6 | More painful than my infected knee that fundamentally changed me as an athlete. More painful than losing |
| 0:39.4 | my grandfather. Yes, the past two weeks I've watched my partner, my person in life, in severe pain |
| 0:45.0 | in the hospital. There's nothing I can do but watch and hope the treatment she is getting all work |
| 0:50.9 | and get her back home sooner than later. Andge is the strongest person I know, and I would share more with you, but this is her story, |
| 0:57.6 | and maybe I'll get to tell you her full story one of these days, or at least that's my goal, |
| 1:02.0 | but it's not to happen here and now right now. |
| 1:04.3 | We're going to keep some things close to the vest, and Angie doesn't want to be content, |
| 1:07.7 | and I don't blame her for it. But it's my life too and it has been absolutely miserable. I am so sad most of the time. I've never been more busy in my entire life |
| 1:15.6 | and really don't feel bad for me because my life is great. I'm healthy. I feel bad for my wife, |
| 1:20.4 | Ange, who is going through some absolute shit. I can't even imagine what goes through her head. I feel so bad. I don't want to say anything more about |
| 1:28.2 | it. So my personal life has been a wreck, but I'm lucky that I had two podcasts recorded beforehand |
| 1:33.5 | because there was no way I'd be able to record one this week. So while I will need to play |
| 1:38.3 | catch up soon, I have another interview with the Jackson Hole legend, a guide this time, Doug |
| 1:43.7 | workman. And I recorded with Doug |
| 1:45.6 | about a month ago. But so much has been going on that I don't even remember enough to give you a good |
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