Jared Alden

Senior Guide

Jared Alden has been engaged with children for over 17 years in variety of professional settings, including an acute psychiatric inpatient and residential lock-down hospital for adolescents, an outpatient wraparound program for the state of Pennsylvania, the Fitzsimon Middle School in north Philadelphia, an orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal, the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Children’s’ Center, a preschool in Doylestown Pennsylvania, and some remote villages and nomadic tribes of northern Mali, West Africa. In addition to serving as an outdoor education guide and rehabilitation mental health specialist, Jared enjoys relating to children and youth as a professional AASI snowboarding coach, mentor, and instructor, as well as engaging children as a rock climbing instructor, coach, and USA Climbing judge. He is an AMGA SPI climbing guide.