Bob Stremba, Ed.D., Associate Professor and Program Director of Adventure Education
Bob has developed adventure education academic and co-curricular programs at three universities before coming to Fort Lewis College in 2006. He also course directs and instructs seasonally for Outward Bound Wilderness, serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Experiential Education and Mountain Spirit Institute, conducts accreditation reviews for outdoor programs, and regularly presents workshops at national outdoor education and leadership conferences. He is co-authoring a book on experiential methods of teaching adventure education theory and concepts, and enjoys backpacking, rock climbing, skiing, sea kayaking, and mountain biking. Adventure highlights include climbs of several of the glaciated peaks in the Pacific Northwest, a climb of Mt. Orizaba in Mexico, backpacking in Bolivia, and sea kayaking in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and Baja, Mexico.
Lee Frazer, Ph.D. Candidate, Instructor of Adventure Education
Lee has worked in the outdoor and adventure education field—as a program director, staff trainer, instructor, and program reviewer—for more than 12 years. For 10 of those years, he was affiliated with Outward Bound, where he last served as the Montana Program Director. Lee's specialties encompass everything from developing "culturally competent" outdoor educators to using adventure modalities in traditional education settings, like K-16 classrooms, to promote community building, critical thinking and diversity awareness. He's also active in the Association for Experiential Education, consults part-time, and enjoys telemark skiing, rock climbing, and backpacking. Lee has spent a lot of personal time in the outdoors, which has included a 15-day traverse of the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains in Montana, a six-week backpacking trip in India, and numerous trips in the wildlands of Mexico.
Tim Thomas, B.A., Instructor of Adventure Education
Tim has been working as an outdoor guide and instructor for almost 20 years, in locations ranging from Nepal to New Guinea. He works on ships in the Antarctic and Artic as a lecturer, Zodiac driver and Naturalist when not teaching at Fort Lewis. Additionally, Tim works part time for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School, instructing wilderness medicine, mountaineering, rafting and sea kayaking. Along with his many years in the field teaching and instructing, Tim is also an avid outdoor adventurer and traveler. Spending the turn of the millennia at the South Pole and summiting Mt. McKinley in Alaska are among his favorite achievements.
Amy Climer, M.S. Instructor of Adventure Education
Since 1995, Amy has been teaching, facilitating, and leading in the field of Adventure Education. She has worked with outdoor programs at University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of New Hampshire, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her past research included studying the leadership training methods of students in college outdoor programs. She is an American Canoe Association certified paddling instructor. Amy is also a Lead Instructor for LeaderShape, Inc. and has worked for Semester at Sea traveling around Europe and Russia for 10 weeks. Adventure trips have included sea kayaking the Florida Everglades and the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, bike touring around Maine and Nova Scotia for five weeks, solo backpacking trips in Colorado, and multiple trips in New Hampshire and North Carolina. In addition to being an outdoor educator, Amy creates fiber art and sells her work through galleries and summer art fairs.
