The US Forest Service team and Mt Shasta community would like to extend a warm welcome to Ryan Lazzeri. Ryan applied for and received a permanent position with the USFS Mt. Shasta Avalanche Center and Climbing Rangers this past fall 2021. Ryan cut his teeth on the other 14,000-foot Cascade volcano: Mount Rainier. He spent six seasons there as an NPS climbing ranger and helicopter rescue team member, performing routine mountaineering patrols, protecting the mountain and its visitors, and rescuing stranded and injured climbers. During this time he spent eight winters ski patrolling, first at Mount Bachelor, OR, and then in Telluride, CO, where he also worked as a backcountry ski guide. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, he started skiing and hiking in the mountains at a young age. In college, while guiding mountain biking tours in the summer, Ryan discovered that it’s possible to make a living outside doing fun things. He’s been doing this since and loving it. Ryan is an EMT, PRO 2 avalanche certified, an AMGA assistant ski guide, and has over 200 hours of professional technical rope rescue training and experience. He has also climbed and skied throughout the Western U.S. In his free time he enjoys long rock climbs in the alpine, playing music, and floating down rivers, which he believes is the perfect metaphor for life.