Since 1989 Rocco has been a professional ski patroller, worked on big city and rural ambulances, a search and rescue coordinator, an avalanche rescue dog handler, a raft guide, a firefighter and an EMS and wilderness medicine instructor. When he’s not teaching he can be found mountain biking, backcountry skiing, or canoeing with his family and dogs. Rocco pays the bills working as a flight paramedic servicing Northern Idaho, Montana and Washington State.