Nate and Tesse met back in 2014 while coaching the Crested Butte youth ski team. Initially the relationship was just after work ski runs with a Nate being totally silent the entire time. Later Tesse traveled to Oregon to get her doctorate in physical therapy while Nate went back to Vermont to work in the geology field doing environmental remediation consulting. Years later, the Colorado mountains called them both back. While waiting in the ski lift line on winter day, Nate recognized Tesse’s blue Lang ski race boots. Somehow the lift lines wiggled their way forward and they ended up in the same chairlift. The rest is history.

After a year or so of dating Nate and Tesse moved to Montana for a couple years and then onto their current home in Haines AK.

We are so excited to share this place we call home with you all!