Pachner & Associates, LLC will be attending the 2020 virtual Wilderness Risk Management Conference from Wednesday, October 14 through Friday, October 23, 2020. While we will be able to selectively enroll in sessions from our office (much less intensive than traveling to the meetings!) we may be unavailable at times for an hour or two. If you are unable to reach us, please leave a voice mail message or send an email, and we will return your call when we finish the session. We are proud to be a supporter of the Jim Ratz Memorial Scholarship Fund for the event. Please keep an eye out for Don Pachner and David LeClair, if you enroll in one of the sessions we attend!

Our main office will be closed while we participate in a local Climate Action Strike on September 20, 2019 from 11 AM to 2:30 PM.  If you need immediate assistance, please dial extension 1018 and ask for Michele Clough. 

We apologize for any inconvenience while we let the North Country and the world know how we feel about the critical importance of dealing with the climate change that we have all had a hand in creating, in one way or another, and support the younger generation’s voices in urging the world to apply science and environmental sociology to a crucial problem facing the human race.

Don Pachner has been invited to teach two professional development courses on insurance to mountaineering guides & guide services at the American Mountain Guides Association‘s national meetings at Petzl Technical Center in Salt Lake City, UT on October 24-25,2019.  The courses will address “Hot Topics In Insurance for Guides” and “Insurance Considerations for Foreign Guiding”.  Each course will be taught on Thursday October 24, and again on Friday October 25.  Participants can register for the courses on the AMGA event site