Lance Tripper is 32 years old and received his bachelors at Michigan State University in Land Management and his masters at the University of Colorado Boulder in Outdoor Education. He is an Eagle Scout and his hobbies are hiking solo back country at Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park where he has gained very large calf muscles. He is stationed at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park where he has a two month solo outpost contract with the Park Rangers.