Aubrey Barton
Riggins,Idaho
Summary
Seasoned Lodge Manager with comprehensive background in hospitality and facility operations. Possess strong leadership qualities, capable of managing staff effectively to ensure high levels of guest satisfaction. Skilled in budgeting, event planning and coordinating maintenance tasks, contributing significantly to business growth and operational efficiency in previous roles.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lodge Manager (Solo)
China Bar Lodge
Frank Church Wilderness, Idaho
04.2023 - 11.2023
- Menu-planned, inventoried, cooked 3 meals a day with dessert and appetizers for up to 30 paid fishing, rafting, jet boat clients.
- Housed, turn-over, managed daily cleaning operation on 4 cabins, 1 lodge, kitchen and 2 outhouses for up to 30 clients at a time.
- Menu-planned, cooked 3 meals a day for the Elkhorn fire and fed up to 100 firefighters in August of 2023. Hired help for 1 week at a time, throughout the entire 3 weeks of the fire.
- Managed landscaping, irrigation systems, finicky septic, and off-grid power systems including a hydro-electric system, solar panels with a 24 volt battery backup.
- Managed upkeep on the backcountry lodge including, replacing plumbing in one cabin, fencing projects, replacing hydro line, and countless fix-it projects on an old backcountry septic, power system with run-down buildings.
Ranch Manager
Shepp Ranch Outfitters
Gospel Hump Wilderness, Idaho
06.2021 - 03.2023
- Inventoried, meal planned and fed 3 meals a day in the high-end Cliental up to 19 people at a time. Went to town once a month to shop food, cooking and cleaning supplies and made loads to be jet boated into the remote ranch. Cooked for large groups of construction workers that were updating old cabins.
- Managed bookings for outfitting jet boat, hunting and fishing clients and schedules for construction workers coming into the ranch.
- Found, hired and trained a housekeeper, and a ranch hand for the ranch for the Summer and Fall Months
- Planted and kept a 9 month garden that kept fresh produce on the table from March/November for the freshest food.
- Upkeep and cleaned 10 cabins, 2 laundry rooms, one lodge and kitchen weekly/ daily
- Landscaping for entire ranch
- Kept 4-10 head of stock fed year round
- Set up and managed/menu planned/packed and cooked for hunting camp in the highcountry a 12 hour round trip from the lodge the months of September and October living in a wall tent with no running water
- Helped managed a backcountry generator only power system that operated a few hours a day. Managed my power time and used my power systems like a mixer, or vacuumed when generator ran to save gas running the generator.
Solo Ranch Caretaker
Indian Creek Ranch
Salmon River, Idaho
04.2018 - 04.2021
- Solo ran and operated a historical, trail-acess only homestead with no airstrip.
- Packed in literal tons all my supplies, food, propane, fuel, feed and weird odds and ends supplies such as water heaters, beehives, mattresses on 6-10 head of stock every year.
- Maintained 2 historical cabins, 1 barn, 1 sawmill, 6 outbuildings with backcountry hydro-electric/solar power system with a 3x 24 volt battery bank and charge controller/inverter. Kept systems running year round even in the cold Winter months dealing with freeze threats on the cabin and hydro system.
- Put up 2 cutting of 2 acres of unbailed, loose Strawberry Clover hay by hand via sicklebar mower/ pitchfork, hay wagon, jackson fork into the hay loft.
- Packed in 8-12 ton of extra feed on horseback
- Managed and fed myself from a garden/ canning/ hunting with one trip to town a year to buy my dry goods for a year.
- Spent 5 months every Winter without any access to an airstrip or a way out of the homestead (can handle some of the most stressful situations solo without losing my mind and solving the problem at hand)
Camp Cook/Maid
Mackay Bar Outfitters & Guest Ranch
Frank Church Wilderness, Idaho
08.2015 - 10.2018
- Quick and thorough cleaned high volume turnovers for jet boat, hunting and rafting cliental up to 15-60 people at a time for 8 cabins and walltents on the property
- They called me the "Everything Girl" at the ranch. Everytime a cook/ranch hand or maid quit I filled in as needed till they could fill that position.
- Landscaping
- Drained and crawled into the septic tank to clean gunk out of the broken pump (no job too dirty!!!)
- Cooked for high end weddings, family reunions, retreats, rafting, steelhead fishermen, bear, elk, mule deer and sheep hunts from February-November. Menus were always preplanned, I inventoried supplies and bought fresh produce that flew in once a week on the mail plane.
- Lived in walltent the month of September for elk hunts in the highcountry. Cooked, baked over an open fire. Weekly supplies of fresh meat/ dairy and produce was packed in on mule train.
Cook Helper
Whitewater Ranch
Frank Church Wilderness, Idaho
06.2015 - 08.2015
- Whenever the ranch had groups of 20 or more people raft into the property I would hike 7 miles downriver and help the owners cook and clean for the clients then hike home after we turned everything over.
Maid/Ranch Hand
Allison Ranch
Frank Church Wilderness, Idaho
05.2015 - 08.2015
- Landscaped/ help cooked, cleaned 3 cabins, 1 lodge and many outbuildings.
- Helped around for any projects the caretaking couple needed throughout the summer as they fed small groups of clients.
Camp Cook
China Bar Lodge
Frank Church Wilderness, Idaho
08.2014 - 07.2015
- Cooked, cleaned and managed the property solo for groups of rafters, fishermen and jet boat clients up to 30 people. It was my first backcountry gig and I was the only groundskeeper on the property.
Ranch Hand
Keystone Ranch
Salmon, Idaho
06.2006 - 08.2014
- Summer Cattle Ranch hand every summer June/August
- Irrigation, fencing, moving cows, construction ranch projects, putting up 1100 acres of hay in half ton round bails, firewood, etc.
Education
Taxidermist - Business
Artistic School of Taxidermy
Kooskia, ID04-2024
Some College (No Degree) - Secondary Education
Weber State University
Ogden, UTSkills
- Backcountry cook with a specialty in baking, smoking meat and creating menus from scratch with an innate ability to make a menu with limited supplies
- Menu-planning and inventorying food for long stints without re-supply and little food waste
- Managing remote power systems
- fast-paced turn-overs, keeping a clean environment and making sure guests have all their amenities taken care off
- Great people skills, offering a warm, fun environment for guests so they feel at home even with limited resources so they have a great experience and book year after year
- Jack-of-all trades, can figure any problem out in a jiffy while keeping a level head
- Professional mule packer with farrier skills and horse training experience
Affiliations
- Animal trapper/ furhandler and hide tanning
- woodworker
- electrical skills
- decorating :)
- florist
- baking is my passion!!!
Accomplishments
- Full-ride scholarship running Track and Field and Cross Country at Weber State
Certification
- Taxidermist
Custom
Volunteer for Domestic Abuse Shelter Spring 2024
Timeline
Lodge Manager (Solo)
China Bar Lodge
04.2023 - 11.2023
Ranch Manager
Shepp Ranch Outfitters
06.2021 - 03.2023
Solo Ranch Caretaker
Indian Creek Ranch
04.2018 - 04.2021
Camp Cook/Maid
Mackay Bar Outfitters & Guest Ranch
08.2015 - 10.2018
Cook Helper
Whitewater Ranch
06.2015 - 08.2015
Maid/Ranch Hand
Allison Ranch
05.2015 - 08.2015
Camp Cook
China Bar Lodge
08.2014 - 07.2015
Ranch Hand
Keystone Ranch
06.2006 - 08.2014
Taxidermist - Business
Artistic School of Taxidermy
Some College (No Degree) - Secondary Education
Weber State University
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