Outdoor Adventures is a small company. We take pride in suiting each adventure to the requirements of our client. Accordingly, we prefer to keep our group size to a maximum of eight, with no more than four persons to a guide. Every guide is a competent naturalist and an experienced wilderness guide. We are fully insured and have the required guide permits issued by the Coronado National Forest.

The Outdoor Adventures Team

Jeanne Broome
Jeanne has been a docent at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum for the past 13 years. Talk about knowing a little about everything! She is also a photographer and teacher. You can see some of her work in the Arizona Traveler Guidebooks, Arizona Wildflowers.

Jeff Brucker

Our leading fitness hiker. Jeff leads most of our fitness hikes. As a member of the Search and Rescue Team of Southern Arizona his skills in orienteering are highly regarded.
Mary Cannon
An amateur botanist, (mushrooms are a specialty), Mary is a Forest Service Volunteer Naturalist. Mary is also an avid hiker and backcountry guide having lived in Tucson most of her life. She also leads fitness hikes and substitutes for Melody as Chief Cook and Bottle Washer when needed.
Richard Case
Our resident hiking, biking archeologist. A optomotrist by trade, his first love is the outdoors. Having worked a lot of the archeological sites in Southern Arizona, he can give you indepth information about the Hohokam Indians of the Tucson Basin.

Nigel Crook

Born in England, Nigel has been chasing birds since a young boy. He has a degree in Ecology and many hours in ornithological research and seabird banding projects. With such a background, he has the inate ability to find birds where no one would suspect.

His wife Donna and he moved to Tucson in 1991 and have been chasing birds in Southern Arizona ever since. In his words. . . "This is the most fascinating and exciting birding area in the country. I very much enjoy finding and showing people birds. I especially enjoy helping them to see life birds."

Nigel is marvelous at helping people to actually see the birds and shares his knowledge about each species. . . what identifying marks to look for to I.D. a bird, their calls and songs.

Outdoor Adventures is indeed very lucky to have him join our team of leaders.

Jeff Mayhew
One of our leading rock guides. Jeff has a degree in Education, but has been working as a paramedic for the past 8 years. As a member of the Southern Arizona Rescue Association Jeff is the Rockclimbing and Low/High Angle Rescue Trainer. He has also taught rockclimbing for Prescott College.

His climbing experience includes free and aid climbing, 5.6 - 5.11 AO-A4, big wall experience and numerous backcountry first ascents.

Norm Schaeffler
An avid outdoorsman, who loves sharing his love of hiking and nature. His second career, operating his own part-time accounting practice, is carefully managed so as not to interfere with hiking!
His hiking experience includes the Alps. Knowing a little about everything and not much about any one thing, most of his knowledge has been gleaned from natural history and ecology classes attended, and from his compendious reading. Easy-going is Norm, and laid-back!.

His passions include classical music, and reading. He is a member of the Nature Conservancy, the Grand Canyon Trust and the Grand Canyon Association.  
Peggy Wenrick
Peggy is our resident hiking geologist. Want to know about rocks? This is your guide.
 
Diane Wright

Diane's favourite subject, next to birds, is wild flowers.

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