Lloyd Athearn, Executive Director

Hannah Clark, Operations Manager

Hannah joined the CFI staff in 2018. Prior to that she served as the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps Peak Apprentice on the Mount Elbert project in 2017.  She has also worked on trail building projects and natural-resource management with Northwest Youth Corps in Oregon.  Professionally, Hannah has worked as an environmental analyst, natural resource steward, and lab technician for organizations and agencies in California and Oregon. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree in environmental law and policy from Sturm College of Law at DU. Hannah brings a life-long passion for conservation education, hard work, and volunteerism to CFI.

Tom Cronin, Field Projects Manager

2022 marks Tom’s 14th consecutive season working in the realm of trails. After spending three years with the City of Boulder, Open Space and Mountain Parks he came on board with CFI in 2012. He went on to spend five seasons with CFI as a Project Manager leading projects on Holy Cross, Maroon Peak, El Diente, and Mount Eolus. In 2017, he moved into the position of Sustainable Trails Coordinator. He analyzed over 29,000 trail features while conducting comprehensive assessments of trail conditions on 33 different 14ers over the course of his next two seasons. In 2019, he moved into his current role as Field Projects Manager. In this role Tom is assisting with the management and oversight of CFI’s seasonal staff and projects as well as working with USFS Fourteeners Program Manager on designing new trails. Tom immediately became enamored with trail work, specifically dry-set stonework and has pursued his passion ever since.

Email: tom@14ers.org
Phone: 303.278.7650

Lindsey B. King, Deputy Director

Lindsey joined CFI’s staff in 2025, after having worked as a professional journalist and magazine editor in Denver for more than 23 years. She often reported and wrote about outdoor recreation opportunities and environmental conservation efforts in Colorado. In her role at CFI, Lindsey oversees external communications and media relations, assists the organization in achieving its annual fundraising goals, and helps manage and organize operations across the state. Lindsey holds a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism. She is a seven-time finalist and two-time winner of the National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s Pulitzer Prize equivalent, with four of those stories centering on outdoor recreation in the Centennial State.

John Skadow, Controller

As CFI’s controller, John brings extensive experience in nonprofit and operations accounting along with a lifelong passion for Colorado’s high country. Before joining CFI in late 2024, John served as CFO at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, where he led all financial operations, including budgeting, financial reporting, and audit oversight. Throughout his career, he has focused on improving internal controls, streamlining processes, and ensuring financial transparency. John holds a CPA license in Colorado and a master’s degree in finance from the University of Colorado Denver. An avid hiker, John is proud to support CFI’s mission to preserve and protect Colorado’s 14ers.

Email: john@14ers.org
Phone: 303.278.7650

Miriam Venman-Clay, Field Projects Manager

Miriam joined CFI in 2012 as a Project Manager working on the Maroon Bells reconstruction project. Over the past several years she has led projects on Mount Eolus and El Diente Peak, and become one of CFI’s most experienced leaders in technical rock work. In 2016, Miriam joined the permanent staff as Field Projects Coordinator. With more than a decade of experience working in the backcountry and teaching trail work, she is an integral part of the core staff – assisting with seasonal hiring, project oversight, and ensuring that CFI’s trail crew members perform to the highest standards. She loves the wilderness and feels a great urgency to help protect it through action and education. She likes working for CFI because the organization embodies her ideals and is taking action to save the sacred, endangered alpine ecosystem.

2024 Seasonal Staff

Mount Elbert – Blackcloud Crew (Left to Right): Ben, Gibson, Eve, Trey

Lower Shavano Crew (Left to Right): David, Chris, Grace, Kate, Tyler, Riley