About ActiveGirl

Gwen Whitten

Gwen@ActiveGirlEscapes.com

Marketing/Advertising Coordinator

Owner, Plain Hardware Home, Garden & Gifts

Interests Include: Backpacking, trail running, Nordic (skate) skiing, snowshoeing, mountain biking, strength training, and gardening.  

Fitness Accomplishments include Climbing Mt. St. Helens, participating in and finishing 3 sprint distance triathlons, and rock climbing a 5.10C

Fitness Goals: backpack the Alpine Lakes "Enchantments Trail" with my son in 2008, and to climb Mt. Stuart.

ActiveGirl is Gwen's 'baby.'   After attempting to locate fitness oriented vacation and having little success, she decided that with the resources available to her here in her own back yard, a better fitness vacation could be built.   So, in true Gwen style, she mobilized the 3 other women of ActiveGirl, and began to create her vision.   As part of a dedicated group of local mountain adventurers, Gwen may be found on any given weekend exploring the amazing wilderness right outside her back door.   Gwen's spirit and infectious positive attitude are the driving force behind ActiveGirl Mountain Fitness Escapes.

Jaimi Krenz

Jaimi@ActiveGirlEscapes.com

Hospitality Coordinator

Residence: Born and raised in Plain

Part of family-owned Mountain Springs Lodge where she is the Wedding Coordinator

Interests Include: Hiking, skiing, photography, Spanish language, and travel

Fitness Accomplishments: Finishing the Seattle half marathon, climbing Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens

Fitness goals: To summit Glacier Peak in 2008, and to just be outside more often!

Jaimi is a dynamo, and just about the sweetest person you may ever meet.   She is passionate about life and can't wait to get out and start her next adventure!   When she can steal away from work, you may find her running or biking or skiing the trails behind the lodge with her 2 dogs and her husband Nick.

Erika Enloe C.P.F.T.

Erika@ActiveGirlEscapes.com

Fitness Director

Residence: Leavenworth since 2000

ACE Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, 20 years & owner, Motion Fitness

Interests Include: Running, mountain biking, skiing (alpine and Nordic), adventure racing, triathlons, vegetable and flower gardening, spending time with good friends, and taking advantage of any chance to sing.

Fitness Accomplishments: Competing in several sprint adventure races, participating in the local annual mountain bike race, participating in regional jump rope competitions, running and finishing the Wenatchee half marathon (even after going the wrong way!), participating in several sprint triathlons, climbing Mt. St. Helens, and running the Alpine Lakes Trail.

Erika is always quick with a joke that, at least, she will think is funny.   A wise-cracker and a whip-cracker, she is dedicated to challenging her clients with their workouts.   She lives for the adventure of exploring new running trails as far out in the wilderness as she dare go with the crazy crew with whom she runs.   Erika is always likely to say, 'let's give it a try!' when given a challenge.   When she has free time, you are sure to find her out with her friends, pushing her limits, and laughing through it all.

Adrienne Schaefer

Adrienne@ActiveGirlEscapes.com

Business Manager

Residence: Plain since 2005

Owner of Anew Outdoors, a custom-based guide service that offers everything from sea kayaking to fly fishing trips in the great northwest.   Ski patrols at Stevens Pass in the winter.

Interests Include: All forms of outdoor activity, but especially skiing (alpine and back country), running, and climbing.

Fitness Accomplishments: 50-mile trail run in the North Cascades, multiple ski descents and traverses in the Washington Cascades and Alaska, and trekking in Peru and Bolivia.

Fitness Goal: 2-week ski trip in the Alaska Range.

Adrienne is a true backcountry outdoor goddess!   She will outlast, outwit and outplay anyone who is foolish enough to get all up in her grill.   And she does it with a smile on her face.   She is an inspiration to everyone she meets.   Her smile is infectious and her stamina is endless.   When she isn't guiding sissy boys through the woods, leading a sea kayak trip, or writing entries for the hiking guide book she is writing, you will find her pushing her friends along on trail runs that she swears will only take 'about an hour!'

Barbara Dalton

Mountain Springs Lodge Executive Chef        

Chef "Barbie" will spoil you during your stay at Mountain Springs Lodge - You will experience first hand her passion of pleasing and engaging her guests through her fabulous meals.  

After graduating culinary school from Columbia College, Barbara developed her abilities by selecting jobs based on learning different cooking skills.   In her first 15 years after culinary school, Barbara cooked at a French Bistro, a fine dining Chinese restaurant, where she eventually became the head chef, a Southwest restaurant where she experienced the mixing of different cultures' cuisines by fusing ingredients, and a fine dining country club where she realized her love of the sophistication and freedom of resort dining.  

Now, at Mountain Springs Lodge, Barbara is devoted to making guests' experience special and memorable with her cuisine.   Cooking from scratch is Barbara's motto and her ability to pull "power ingredients" and blend recipes to create extraordinary dishes is her specialty.   Selecting quality ingredients, never using imitation (she once quit a job because the restaurant used margarine!), trusting her instincts and infusing her own personality into her cooking sets her cuisine apart. Chef Barbie will ensure that dining at Mountain Springs Lodge will be an experience you'll look forward to during your ActiveGirl Escape!