Name: Dexter Caudill
Hometown: Billings, Mont.
Major/Degree: Business
Occupation: Server at City Brew
Free time hobbies: Backcountry skiing, mountain biking, hunting, hiking, fishing and rafting.

Why did you move to Montana?
I kind of didn’t have a choice. I guess I haven’t moved away from Montana because this is where all my friends and family are, not to mention the surrounding outdoors.

Do your future plans involve this area?
Most likely, however, I just don’t know for sure.

What is a day you will never forget?
Last winter I was coming down off a run called “angel dust” at Bridger and ate it hard, losing a ski and having to come down from over 8000 ft. on one ski. It pretty much sucked. This summer I was up at Bridger again hiking/participating in a search party, and low and behold my ski was found. It was pretty awesome.

If you could do anything for a day, what would it be?
This is an easy one.  I want a helicopter at my disposal so I can ski off a peak, have the heli drop my bike down to where snow turns into rock, mountain bike down to a river where a boat is waiting for me in some whitewater then in calm areas get some fish on the fly rod.

For years Caudill has guided friends during hunting season to track down and eliminate large black bears. Like all of our student section this Saturday, he cheers on his friends to take down bears (especially Grizzles). Last season Caudill guided a buddy in the Beartrap Canyon, outside of Ennis, where they shot and killed a large black bear (legally, of course).

The only animal Caudill hunts personally anymore is elk, and each of the last five years he has taken one down. His efforts go beyond just the shot; he incorporates hiking and biking in the late summer months to scout. With hunting season winding down, Caudill is geared up and in ski mode.