OUR TEAM OF EXPERTS

Keith O’Toole

Keith O’Toole is the Director of Operations at JD High Country Outfitters, managing the operations of both our Town Square store as well as our Pepi Stiegler’s Sports Store in Teton Village.

Keith hails from the East Coast, growing up in New York and Florida, where he was an avid angler and skier. After graduating from University of Central Florida, Keith moved to Sun Valley, ID, and began working in and eventually managing outdoor sporting goods stores for the Sun Valley Company. Keith took his angling skills and translated them to fly fishing and he moved to Jackson in 2009, and began working in the Pepi Stiegler Sports store. He became Director of Operations in 2014, and has become an avid bowhunter.

Today, Keith lives in Victor, ID and fishes and hunts in Eastern Idaho. His most recent project has been building the first archery pro shop in Jackson.

Kris Walker

Kris is our Outfitting Manager, a position he’s been preparing for, for over a decade.

Kris came to Jackson Hole in 2005 and has guided visitors and residents in a wide variety of experiences and adventures ever since. He’s guided snowmobile tours for 10 years.

He’s been a wildlife tour guide in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks over a six year period.

He was a whitewater guide in Snake River Canyon for 3 years.

Each experience has taught him the importance of matching the experience to the unique needs of his guests, learning he uses to match the ideal outdoor experience and guide to our guests. Come in, talk to Kris and you’ll be connected with an outdoor experience ideally matched to your interests and capabilities.

In Kris’s spare time, he’s followed his passions for fly fishing, fly tying, hunting, camping, backpacking and archery and doting on his wife and two children

Randolph Doffermyre

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Randolph received a degree in history with a focus on water rights and Native American studies in the Western United States. A lifelong angler and avid outdoorsman, Randolph moved to Jackson Hole immediately after college and began guiding clients down the Snake River. After several years of guiding in the valley, Randolph took a position with a local outdoor retailer that focused on properly outfitting clients with the best gear for their trips to Jackson Hole and around the world. His passion for fishing, hunting and skiing, and his knowledge and appreciation of quality outdoor gear led him to JD High Country Outfitters in 2014.

In the summertime, you will likely find Randolph in the fishing department, sharing his love and passion for the outdoors with locals and visitors to the shop. As winter storms blanket the Teton in snow, Randolph takes his enthusiasm for the mountains to JD High Country Outfitters’ ski shop Pepi Stiegler Sports at the base of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, where has skied for the last 15 years. When he’s not in the shop, you are sure to find Randolph on the slopes or streams with his wife Kathleen and their two dogs, Gill and Greta

Scott Sanchez

Scott started fly fishing and fly tying at the age of 12. He has worked in the fly fishing industry for over twenty years. This includes being fishing manager at Jack Dennis Sports, wholesale manager at Dan Bailey's, tying flies commercially, fly consulting work for Dan Bailey's, working at the Austin Angler, being the first Texas sales representative for Scott Fly Rods and is now the manager of JD High Country Outfitters.

Scott is a member of the Scott Rods Pro Staff and Whiting Hackle Pro Staff. Scott has written articles and sold photos to American and Japanese publications, and his photos have won regional and national awards. He writes the fly tying column for American Angler. He wrote the first beginner saltwater fly tying book, Introduction to Salt water Fly Tying and A New Generation of Trout Flies. His book The Never Ending Stream is about the tiers and flies that have influenced him. It uses his artistic photos of the flies, drawings and writings to tell the history of flies and fly tying.

In 1994, he received Peter Crosby Memorial Sportsmanship Award from the Jackson Hole One Fly. In 2007, he received the Arnold Gingrich Lifetime Achievement Award for literature from the Federation of Fly Fishers and in 2010 he was the recipient of the Buz Busek award for his contributions to the world of fly tying. In 2014 Scott won the first FFF Iron Fly Contest. Scott has been the featured guide on a number of national TV programs. He is considered one of the most innovative fly tyers in the world. During the annual Jackson Hole One Fly he is in high demand for his flies that have fooled and lasted over a hundred fish.

He has thirty years of experience fishing the Greater Yellowstone area. He has fly fished for numerous species in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, California, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, California, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Brazil, Belize, and France.

Besides fly fishing and fly tying, Scott is kind of the renaissance man of the outdoors. He mountain bikes, road bikes, nordic skis, alpine skis, trail runs, hikes and camps. Athletic accomplishments include lettering in track at the University of Utah, making it to Category 2 level in cycling and a 2:37 marathon. Hunting and shooting are also passions with both firearms and archery use. He owns and shoots compound bows, recurves, longbows and has built a few hickory longbows.

Clare English

After graduating from Appalachian State in western NC, Clare couldn't stay away from the mountains. She took a quick five month hiatus and hiked the Appalachian Trail, northbound Georgia to Maine. With an even greater calling for the mountains after hiking, Clare set out on a new adventure and moved to Jackson, WY where she works as JD High Country Outfitter's assistant softgoods and footwear buyer.

When she is not at the store, you can find Clare hiking in the GTNP, mountain biking on Cache Creek, skiing at JHMR or floating down the Snake. She is happiest while exploring the great outdoors and brings her passion to work everyday to help others gear up for their adventures.

Joline Crosby

Joline is the Lead Soft Goods Buyer responsible for buying all our great clothing, accessories, and luggage. Being a native of Jackson Hole and an avid sportswoman has helped her understand the need to combine form and function in everything she sources for the store. After graduating from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and a brief stint in Oslo, Norway, she moved back to Jackson Hole to pursue the outdoor endeavors she enjoys. For 10 years she channeled her love for our mountains by instructing snowboarding, skiing, and downhill mountain biking at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Prior to taking on her current role, she held several positions at JD High Country Outfitters and Pepi Steigler Sports. In her free time, you’ll find her hiking, biking, snowboarding, skiing and fly fishing with her partner John and their dog, Sadie.