Featured Member
Maryann Gaug, Bristlecone Writing and About Wilderness, LLC
Maryann Gaug is the author of three Falcon Guides: Hiking Colorado 2nd Edition (3rd edition coming about in Spring 2011), Hiking Colorado’s Summit County Area, and Best Hikes near Denver and Boulder. She has also been a grant proposal writer for Friends of the Eagles Nest Wilderness, in addition to working with the USDA Forest Service to develop a Wilderness Volunteer program and Noxious Weed Treatment program. She coordinated both of these programs for several years. Maryann is a Master of Leave No Trace and received a Wilderness Studies Certificate from Colorado Mountain College. She has also written A History of the Land: The Fiester Preserve and A History of the Land: The Giberson Preserve for Continental Divide Land Trust.
A native of Denver, Maryann moved to Boulder to earn her Master’s degree in Computer Science. She worked in computing and manufacturing for 20 years at Rocky Flats Plant south of Boulder. Her career encompassed computer programming, writing documentation and specifications, and managing a group of computer programmers.
After taking a voluntary separation plan from Rocky Flats in 1995, Maryann moved to Silverthorne, where she and a friend had built a house. She worked full-time at Copper Mountain Resort Nordic Center as a cross country and telemark instructor and a backcounty guide. She created About Wilderness, Inc. in 1997, and guided women’s backpacking trips under permit of the USDA Forest Service. Through Bristlecone Writing (a DBA), she has written and has edited documentation for various businesses.
Maryann has been enjoying the last 15 years exploring different interests, such as writing hiking guides. She works part-time at Copy Copy in Frisco. She has been a member of Women of the Summit for about 13 years and is currently the Membership Chair.
Through Bristlecone Writing, LLC, she would like to write Standard Operating Procedures, checklists, and grant proposals and help people with business plans and other organizational or project planning needs. Please contact her if you are interested.
Bristlecone Writing and About Wilderness, LLC
P.O. Box 2842
Silverthorne, CO 80498-2842
Phone: 970-468-6219
Cell: 970-389-1099