More About Guy Stitt

Hey, you're still here! Well here's a little more information on me and the things I love.

The Puget Sound area of Washington State has a large number of rivers. In particular, the Olympic Peninsula, has a number of rivers known for their STEELHEAD runs. I love to walk the rivers and fish the holes looking for these beautiful fish. Walking the rivers is a peaceful place for me. I release 90% of the fish I catch. The picture on the left is an 8 pound hen caught fifteen miles in on the North Fork Quinalt river on a weekend backpacking trip. The fish on the right is about an 15 pound hen caught near the mouth of the Hoh river as it was coming in from the Ocean.

Hiking the Olympic Mountains

My family and I used to hike and backpack the Olympics. Haven't been up for nearly three years. The Olympic Mountains is part of the "Cascade Range" yet, they are disconnected and not really a range at all. Rather the Olympics are a series of rings of mountains with numerous passes, valleys, and of course rivers. My wife and I started taking our boys back- packing when they were 6 and 4. The family has crossed the Olympics (over low divide) and have put in hundreds of miles on various backpacking trips.

This is a picture of my boys (Michael and Jeremy) and I near the top of Grand Pass.

My Wife - Mary Ann

My better half - Mary Ann. Finnish and German background. Born and raised in Wright County Minnesota, where her family owns a Dairy Farm. We've been together for 28 years. It keeps getting better.

This is one of my favorite photos of her. It was a few years ago in Paris sitting at the steps of the Obelisk.

My Sons - Michael and Jeremy

Mary Ann and I are blessed with 2 excellent sons.

Jeremy (on the left) is currently 19 years old and Michael (on the right) is now 22. Both are excellent family members, smile a lot, have a great love of Math, and are extremely different. And, as you can see, they treat their mother great!

As a family we celebrate their differences. Michael is disciplined, very organized, and has a wonderful way with developing and nurturing strong friendships. He is an exceptional basketball player and a top student. Michael is currently a Senior at University of Washington Business School. He is a member of the FIJIs. 

Jeremy is spontaneous and has a wonderful appreciation for life and all of its subtleties. He is creative, spiritual and also a top student. Jeremy is currently a Sophomore at Central Washington University.

It is a real joy to hang out with these guys - Michael is typically reminding me of some thoughtful task that needs to be attended to, while Jeremy will be finding humor or enlightening facts and sharing them with us all. Truly I'm blessed!

I started karate in 1993 to hang out with my youngest son Jeremy. He stopped and I continued. I passed my BROWN BELT test before I stopped working out regularly. I enjoyed kata and loved to fight (kumite). My Sensei - Kevin O'Neil, is a close friend and I assume I will be applying karate to my everyday activities the rest of my life. This is a picture of Clay Waldron (the tall Brown Belt on the Right) and myself (the green belt in the back line third from left) standing with Shihan Heilman after having gone through techniques of an Okinawan Oar Kata. Clay and I both went on the next day to win 1st Place Trophies in our respective divisions at a large torunament there in Georgia.

Denali Trip

My sons and I traveled to Alaska in September of 2006 and visited DENALI. The Denali National Park tour was boring. The land was fabulous, the mountains amazing, but the bus tour put you to sleep. After the tour and some local hiking we headed back down to Talkeetna to board a flight to fly around the mountain (DENALI).

We booked our flight with K2 Aviation and they did a fabulous job. We flew around the mountain and actually landed on a glacier! The pilot was excellent and the flight thrilling!