- Champion CUSSA Nordic Ski Jumper and figure skater '58-'59
- Danced free form jazz professionally '64--'66, SF, NY, Milwaukee
- Can do 1000 sit ups
- Black belt in Karate
- Tai Chi 20 years
- Former sales mgr, engineer & top sales person ever at North Face
-Restores old tools
- Totally self sufficient home in Ashland as well as on two wheel road
- Had leather repair shop
Makes all of his own dry bags out of PVC canvas
- Raised 28 year old son by himself
- Lost house and all of his possessions in '99 Ashland flood that killed 16 people and was one of lead charges (his portable logging mill which turned most of the trees that had been destroyed into lumber) in then getting 40 homes, including his, rebuilt
- Decorates and sells Emu egg shells at Xmas bazaars using art taught him by a Native American elder