GARY HUBBELL BIOGRAPHY

Gary Hubbell, who grew up on the banks of the Roaring Fork River near Carbondale, Colorado, has made his living for many years as a freelance writer, photographer, and flyfishing and big-game hunting guide.  He has guided flyfishing for 20 seasons, becoming known as one of the best teaching guides in Colorado, and has taught several thousand beginners to flyfish.

Gary’s articles and photographs have appeared, among others, in Outdoor Life, Outside, Bugle (The Journal of Elk and the Hunt), Newsweek, Heartland USA, Sporting Classics, Shooting Sportsman, Black Powder Guns & Hunting, Trail Rider magazine, Fortune Magazine, Eddiebauer.com, Outdoorsite.com, biggamehunt.net,  and he was the still photographer on the CD-ROM “The ESPN Fly Fishing School.” He is the co-author and photographer of “Shadowcasting: An Introduction to the Art of Flyfishing," which won a First Place Colorado Book Award in 2000. Gary wrote, directed, videoed, and produced “Puppy Basics”, a video on pointing Labrador retrievers, and co-directed and videoed “The Pointing Labrador” video. As an opinion-maker, Mr. Hubbell has been quoted on National Public Radio, in the Chicago Tribune, The Aspen Times, the Rocky Mountain News, Sports Afield, and many other publications.

He is the co-author, with famed snowboarding photographer Rob Gracie, of Catching Air, a children’s snowboarding book published by Sports Illustrated for Kids.  He has been a regular columnist for The Aspen Times since 1996, and has won a First Place Colorado Press Award for Best Serious Column. His stock and assignment photography clients include Anheuser-Busch, Ford Motor Company, Toyota, Honda, Santa Cruz Snowboards, Fenwick fly rods, Fidelity Investments, Chase Bank, B. Dalton Booksellers, Polygram Records and the ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection.

His stock photography is represented by Photonica and Iconica, two Getty agencies; Index Stock Imagery; and Windigo Images of Minnesota.

In 2003, Mr. Hubbell and OutWest Guides hosted Remington Firearms for their 2004 catalogue shoot. He provided locations, horses, models, dogs, and props for 5 days of photographing big game and upland hunting scenes for several years of Remington catalogues, calendars, and print ads. In 2005, Gary provided horses for a Victoria’s Secret photo shoot on the top of Independence Pass near Aspen, as well as horses for Kevin Costner’s wedding in 2004.

Mr. Hubbell also guides elk, mule deer, pheasant, and blue grouse hunts, and he and his wife, Doris, hold the U.S. Forest Service permits to outfit on 120 square miles of national forest and wilderness area near Marble, Colorado. Their business, OutWest Guides (www.outwestguides.com) typically hosts 1,250 summer guests and 50-55 elk hunters a season. Mr. Hubbell is an avid horseman, skier, upland bird hunter, elk hunter and flyfisherman. He and Doris own 43 horses, two Labrador retrievers, two Elhew English pointers, and two cats--"a great bloodline," he jokes.

Gary is the president and founder of Clinetop Press (www.clinetop.com) , publisher of “Shadowcasting” and the popular book by Mike Gould, “The Labrador Shooting Dog.” Born in 1962, he lives in Marble, Colorado, with his wife Doris and two young sons, Reed and Jake.