[MA-RPC] Bio - Tede Fleming

[Teresa Fleming]

My bio, compared to others, is kids' stuff!  I hiked many years ago with the Mountain Club of Maryland (MCM) and then, after a long hiatus, joined in 1996 and have been actively involved since.  I lead day hikes, car camping trips/hikes and weekend beginners' backpacks for the Club.  I served as Councillor on the MCM Council in 2001, as Vice President from 2002 - 2004, and am currently serving as President (2004 - 2006).

I've been editor of Hiker High Points, the Club newsletter for three years.  Having "aspired" to the job for some time, I recently began participating in Trail maintenance trips.

In my other life, I work as an Information Technology Specialist - currently involved in a pretty strenuous national rollout of a new part of the system architecture.  Retirement is within reach!

I enjoy backpacking and go on western trips with the Sierra Club.  The last eas eight days in Escalante Canyon, Utah; this year will be in the Cascades in the summer and another yet-to-be-chosen in the fall.  Other hiking trips I do with friends "on our own", camping or "motelling" and doing day hikes - recently in Death Valley, Capitol Reef, and Zion national parks.

I am Vice President of my Community Association in an old neighborhood in an old City.  In that capacithy I deal with many environmental issues - limiting developers, improving sewge pumping to protect streams, falls, etc.

Two years ago I was on an assignment to the Senate - ostensibly to work with rural states with high unemployment hoping to use IT to create jobs.  I wound up working for a northwestern Senator on environmental issues -  focused primarily on protecting salmon.  It was an awesome experience.  The Senator is pro environment in a part of the country that often isn't.  I learned a lot about protecting the environment while not destroying livelihood of farmers (alternate routes for getting grain to market, etc.).  In a time when politics seem to be all development or none, it was a very constructive office in which to work.

Tede Fleming
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