[pct-l] Newest PCTA Regional Rep

[dsaufley]

The PCTA is welcoming aboard their newest regional representative, Anitra
Kass, known to many of you in the long-distance hiking community as "NITRO."
Anitra will be starting as PCTA's Regional Representative for Southern
California on September 15th in their existing Idyllwild office.

 

Anitra will be working with the current regional rep, Suzanne Wilson until
November 15th when Suzanne will report to her new assignment as PCTA's first
regional representative for the North Cascades Region with offices in
Seattle WA.  Anitra is currently working in her second season for the
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, an organization that is rebuilding,
building and maintaining trails to the tops of Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks.
She is currently working on Mount Massive.  You can contact Anitra by e-mail
at akass at pcta.org after September 15th.  Anitra has her Bachelors degree and
a Masters in Kinesiology and Recreation Management from James Madison
University in Virginia.  She is a Triple Crowner having hiked the AT in
2004, the PCT in 2006 and the CDT in 2007. Anitra has also worked in the
classroom as a teacher in Hesperia and Apple Valley, CA.  Since her PCT
through hike, Anitra and her father have been volunteering with the Southern
California Trail Gorillas on various projects.

 

There were over 45 applications for the regional representative position and
an excellent field of finalists.  Members of the PCTA feel fortunate that
Anitra sought out work with PCTA and that the organization has the ability
to attract such well qualified and enthusiastic candidates for their
professional staff.  According to Mike Dawson, Trail Operations manager,
"Anitra looks forwards to her work with Team PCT in Southern California -
the excellent mix of volunteer organizations and agency partners that has
made the region a hotbed of volunteer development and accomplishment for
many years."  There are and have been thru-hikers on the PCTA's
all-volunteer Board of Directors, however, as Mike states, "the PCTA is
happy to welcome the first PCT through hiker to their staff since Joe
Sobinovsky left the organization in 2003, and also happy to have yet another
PCTA Trail Operations staffer who started their work on trails as a
volunteer."

 

Congratulations, NITRO!  

 

L-Rod