About Ripley’s Mountain Adventures

The mission of Ripley’s Mountain Adventures is to benefit our clients in the pursuit of high quality mountain travel, recreation, and adventure experiences.

We pursue our mission through the sharing of useful knowledge and the delivery of unparalleled service.

Some examples of how we benefit our clients…

We eliminate confusion along with wasted time and effort by presenting you with only high quality options that are relevant to your stated criteria.

We save you money without sacrificing quality of experience by presenting you with the best available values relative to your specific budget and needs.
We add value to your experience by centrally coordinating any or all desired aspects of your trip.
We add value to your experience by being easily accessible, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and courteous throughout the process.
Our goal is to be widely recognized as the single best resource for accessing mountain destination travel, recreation, and adventure opportunities.

Staff and History


		Brian Ripley Brian Ripley formally started Ripley’s Mountain Adventures in 1999 as the culmination of a lifetime of love for and experience in and around the ski industry. As the son of a competitive ski racer and professional ski instructor, Brian grew up in two prominent ski resorts where he was lucky enough to nurture a strong affinity for skiing and other mountain recreation activities. Mountain adventure activities continue to strongly characterize his lifestyle. He is an avid skier, mountain biker, hiker, and camper. Brian has been successfully coordinating group ski and summer mountain activity trips full time since 1996 based out of the Denver area where he lives with his wife, Robin (married 5 years as of June 2007), his 3 year old son (as of June 2007), Wilder, 1 year old daughter (as of June 2007), Reese, and dog, Milt who all participate and share his affinity for mountain adventures! Life is good in Colorado!


		Tench Coxe Tench was born in Aspen Colorado where he learned to ski when he was 2 and lived there for a couple of years while his Dad promoted races for the US Ski tour. He then moved to Connecticut until he moved to Montana where he studied business at the University of Montana. While in Montana he pursued many outdoor activities including skiing, hiking, camping, mountain biking and snowshoeing. After graduating he traveled the world for 6 months. He went to 14 countries including Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, and Japan just to name a few. Tench now lives in Denver with his dog Dahlia and continues his outdoor activities, mainly skiing. Tench has skied in almost every resort in the Rocky Mountain West and frequents Colorado destinations giving him a great knowledge of skiing, resort destinations, and related activities. When he is not getting to the mountains he is seeing his favorite band Widespread Panic. Tench is acting Director of Sales for Ripley’s.


		Justin Desrosiers Justin grew up in Massachusetts, where he graduated from Merrimack College with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing. Justin decided to follow his passion of skiing and in 2004 he left New England and headed west to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Justin has spent time traveling extensively throughout the beautiful state of Colorado, partaking in his most favorite outdoor activities including camping, hiking, swimming and Frisbee...(and skiing in the winter of course!). Most recently he resided in Steamboat Springs, working for Steamboat Resort Corp. as the marketing operations assistant. Justin currently lives in Denver and is the newest member of the team at Ripley's Mountain Adventures, serving as the Group Sales Representative. Justin is excited to have the opportunity to help ski clubs, church groups, family and friends enjoy all that Colorado and the Great American West has to offer!


		Melinda Smith Melinda Became the Director of Operations of Ripley' Mountain Adventures in May 2004. Originally from Chicago, Melinda has lived and played in Colorado most of her life, She learned to ski at Keystone at the tender age of 3. In addition to mountain sports, Melinda spent the majority of her formative years showing American Quarter Horses, but denies she was ever a cowgirl. She has traveled quite a bit through Southeast Asia and Europe and tries to get out of the country every chance she gets. Melinda lives in Southwest Denver with her ever faithful German Shepherd, Murphy. She likes to spend as much as her free time outside and preferably on a beach. Contrary to the the photos Melinda is now having fun as a brunette.


		Cindy Kleh Cindy Kleh has lived in the Colorado Rockies for 20 years. She first began snowboarding in 1986 and has been teaching the sport professionally since 1998. She volunteers year round for the National Sports Center for the Disabled in Winter Park teaching snowboarding in the winter and therapeutic horseback riding in the summer. Cindy writes for Copper Cable, Winter Park Manifest, and Mountain Gazette and Alpenglow magazines. Her first book published, Snowboarding Skills (2002), is a full-color instructional snowboarding book available on amazon.com. She is currently the National Giant Slalom and Slalom Champion for women age 40-49, and she has also won many medals in Boardercross. She bikes, hikes and snowshoes around the county, but her newest passion is skateboarding.


		Milt and Dahlia, RMA Dogs The Mountain Adventures Dogs of RMA deserve strong recognition as true outdoor enthusiasts, recreationalists, company mascots, and all around great dogs. Milt and Dahlia all share a love of eating, hiking, camping, swimming, and generally hanging around in the outdoors. Milt has summited 14 of the highest peaks in the continental United States, but his arthritis has recently curtailed his more serious hiking days. He still loves a casual hike. Milt has been in almost every mountain destination in Colorado in both summer and winter time. Tench rescued Dahlia from the Human Society in Missoula, Montana roughly 6 years ago. She enjoys hiking, camping, and lying around, but mainly the loves retrieving anything that floats in any body of water. As a Chesapeake crossed with a Newfoundland she is a water hound and if she had her way she would be in the water all the time, her favorite is rivers. Milt and Dahlia believe that if a happy dog can enjoy all of this mountain adventure then so can you!