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Steamboat Springs — Age: 39

Occupation: Director of online marketing at SmartWool

Place of birth: Waukesha, Wis.

Q. When did you move to Routt County, and what brought you here?

A. March 2007 - Four-season sunshine and SmartWool. It got rainier each of the 12 years I was in Seattle.

Q. What's the biggest risk you've taken recently?

A. Replacing the carpet with beetle-killed (wood) in the evenings after work.

Q. Describe your morning routine.

A. I do my best to avoid routine. Getting outside before work makes any day better.

Q. What three things would you want people to know about you?

A. 1. I'm inept at talking pop culture; I grew up without a television. 2. I think the words are more important than the tune. 3. I wear Merino wool underwear year-round.

Q. What did you want to be when you grew up?

A. Most people don't ask me that in the past tense. But at a certain point I did realize I'd rather be happy than a chemist.

Q. Do you collect anything?

A. Bicycles and folk songs.

Q. In the Meatloaf song, "I'd do anything for love, but I won't do that," what is that?

A. Who is Meatloaf?

Q. What was your first job?

A. Cleaning a bike shop in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for a summer so I could get my first really nice road bike, way back before index shifting and clipless pedals.

Q. Who is your favorite superhero? Why?

A. Don Quixote, because he didn't have to save the world; he just needed to make it a better place.

Q. Do you have any phobias?

A. Candy corn.

Q. What is your favorite thing to do in Routt County?

A. Skipping work and heading for the mountain with my boss on powder mornings.

Favorites

Book: "A Dangerous Summer," by Ernest Hemingway

Song: "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," by Bob Dylan

Color: Green

Food: DeMarini's Pizza anytime I'm in Milwaukee

Sport to watch: Cycling

Vacation spot: Stuart Island in the San Juans

Movie: "V for Vendetta"

Magazine: The New Yorker