Get to Know Us
BUMPS FOR BOOMERS has assembled a great team of hand-selected coaches who are highly skilled in teaching you to become a confident mogul and powder skier. All of our coaches are Boomers with a wealth of wisdom, life experiences and age characteristics similar to you.
Take a minute and get to know your future coach! We’d like you to meet the team and get a feel for how they can help you achieve your mogul skiing and powder skiing objectives.
Meet Coach Bob
Bob Mattice, a veteran PSIA Level 3 ski instructor, brings a wealth of experience to the Bumps for Boomers program where he has been a coach for 18 years. With a career that began in 1983, Bob has held prestigious roles such as Director of Skiing at Hunter Mountain and Ski School Director at Purgatory Resort in Durango Colorado. He recently became a partner in the leadership of Bumps for Boomers. Since moving to Aspen in 2004, he has been dedicated to teaching skiers of all levels, specializing in mogul and powder skiing. He often works with students to safely explore new and challenging terrain.
Bob’s experience of over 40 years of teaching skiing and his fun personal style makes him exceptionally skilled at helping skiers master mogul and powder skiing. His extensive experience and unique teaching methods focus on improving balance, control, and efficiency, all while minimizing joint impact and fatigue. Bob excels at demystifying challenging terrain, helping skiers build confidence and control, making it possible for them to enjoy moguls and powder with ease.
Outside of skiing, Bob enjoys a rich family life with his wife and two grown sons. His interests include music, reading, fitness, hiking, camping, road and mountain biking. During the summer months, he can often be found on the beaches of Hawaii. Bob’s diverse interests and lifelong commitment to skiing make him a well-rounded and passionate instructor.
Meet Coach Nancy
Coach Nancy learned to ski as an adult when she moved to Colorado. This gives her a unique perspective with her students, especially those who started skiing when they were adults. Nancy taught skiing for 10 years at Breckenridge before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley. She has taught at AspenSnowmass since 2013. She recently became a partner in the leadership of Bumps for Boomers.
Nancy loves skiing bumps and working with people to increase their confidence and skills. She brings humor, passion for skiing and love of teaching to Bumps for Boomers. She has an engaging, fun rapport with her clients and is always supportive and knowledgeable in her coaching.
In addition to skiing, Nancy loves to bike, hike, do Pilates and soak in the hot springs. She lives with her husband, Mark and dog, Aura.
Meet Coach Larry
Bumps For Boomers coach Larry Feher is a veteran ski instructor with PSIA Level 3 certification and has been teaching skiing since 1971. His experience includes assignments at Jackson Hole, Bridger Bowl, Taos and Red River. Larry has been teaching skiing in Aspen since 1994.
Larry knows a thing or two about aging joints and fitness. He played football and rugby in college and spent six years in NYC as a high school varsity football and rugby coach. He was a varsity football coach at Bozeman High School while earning his Master’s degree.
Larry has a great sense of humor and leaves his clients with not only new and improved skiing but several new jokes and interesting memories!
Larry received his BS from Columbia University in Industrial Engineering, his MS in Health and Physical Education from Montana State and a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. He has been certified as a Health-fitness Instructor since 1989 by the American College of Sports Medicine.
His outdoor interests include road and mountain biking, golf, and riding motorcycles with friends and his wife Lorraine.
Meet Coach Dina
Dina Belmonte is a PSIA Level 3 ski pro with nearly 40 years’ experience at Aspen Snowmass. She has served in several leadership positions with the Ski and Snowboard Schools of AspenSnowmass: first as the Children’s Coordinator at Snowmass, followed by a decade as the Ski School Manager for the entire Snowmass school. She has returned to teaching full time for the past 15 seasons and is delighted to share her passion and knowledge with guests of all ages and abilities across the four mountains. Her fun and energetic personality are appreciated by our many guests.
Dina moved from NJ to attend CU Boulder where she earned her BA degree. Once she experienced the mountains of Colorado, she never looked back to the east, especially not the city! Dina lives in Basalt with her longtime boyfriend, cat and dog. She has one adult son who is a college student. Dina loves to explore the mountains including winter hut trips, and hiking to remote lakes and unnamed peaks. She enjoys overseas travel, seeking out adventures in a new country at every opportunity. She also enjoys baking, vegetable gardening and participating in a variety of cultural events that Aspen has to offer including concerts, live performances, lectures, and art openings.
Meet Coach Alan
Alan Bush is a highly experienced ski instructor with over four decades of teaching under his belt. He began his ski teaching career in Aspen in 1980 and he is a PSIA level 3 ski professional with specialized training in teaching beginners, kids, and adults of all ages and abilities. His extensive experience makes him a valuable asset to the Bumps for Boomers program where he has been a dedicated instructor for many years.
Students will find Alan’s approach to mogul skiing both reassuring and effective. His method focuses on reducing anxiety and building confidence, tailoring his approach to student needs and allowing skiers to tackle challenging terrain with ease. Alan’s teaching emphasizes balance, control, and efficiency, ensuring that his students can safely enjoy skiing well into their later years.
Outside of skiing, Alan has a rich and varied life. Born in Athens, Georgia, he earned a BS in Physics from Stanford University where he also worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He later moved to Boulder, Colorado, and then to Aspen, where he found his true home, family and calling. Alan enjoys a range of activities, including tennis, hiking, camping, mountain biking, traveling and pickleball. He also stays connected to the world of science, astronomy, physics, astrophysics along with current events. Alan was married to his beloved wife Lisa, who passed away in 2023, for nearly three decades and has two talented sons both now in their 20s. His diverse interests and life experiences enrich his teaching, making him a well-rounded and engaging instructor.
Meet Coach Susan
Bumps for Boomers Coach Susan Lee grew up in the “Mitten” State of Michigan. She has been a PSIA Level 3 ski pro with Aspen Skiing Company since 2007 and has a lifetime of mogul and powder experience gained at various resorts across the US. Susan has a fun personality and exudes energy and passion for skiing that is contagious.
Susan started her sporting career as a US Figure Skating Association Freestyle and Dance double Gold Medalist, adding avid tennis player, scrappy golfer, passionate pickle baller, hiker, and road biker to her list of sporting endeavors along the way. Downhill skiing holds the top position on this list!
Susan earned a BA in Biology from Northwestern University, and then worked in Marketing Management for IBM in Chicago. She is married to an equally adventurous husband and has two grown children who are also keen skiers and snowboarders.
Meet Coach Lisa
Lisa Waldman is a PSIA Level 3 certified/kids’ accredited instructor who has been teaching for the Aspen Skiing company since 1988. She moved to town in 1986 directly out of college upon graduation from University of Florida. After taking a couple of ski vacations during high school, she knew she had found her passion and decided that skiing would be her future as soon as she received her degree. Little did she know, growing up on the tennis courts in Florida that she would make a career out of teaching skiing, but life has a funny way of evolving.
Lisa has lived with her significant other for over 37 years. She has no children but finds her joy in teaching other’s kids on the mountains as well as those who are young at heart. In the summer, she can be found on her mountain or road bike or on the many hiking trails in our gorgeous valley. Mix in some concerts, plays, ballets, and the summer is complete!
Meet Coach Joe
BUMPS FOR BOOMERS coach and founder Joe Nevin grew up as a Army brat and followed the typical pattern of moving from base to base. Joe was born in PA. then spent time living on Army bases in TX, LA and CA. He earned his undergraduate degree at USC and an M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We’re pretty sure he’s the only M.I.T. graduate who ‘grew up’ to be a ski instructor.
Joe began his career at a High-Tech startup, then worked as a management consultant in the Information Technology field followed by seven years in Banking. He returned to the High-Tech industry in 1979 when Andy Grove recruited him to work at Intel. In 1985 Apple sought his services and, after “surviving” an interview with Steve Jobs, Joe spent the next 12 years at Apple before retiring from Corporate America in 1997.
After retirement Joe started a 2nd career to follow his passion for skiing. Having previously taught skiing at Alpine Meadows in Lake Tahoe, he and his wife Nancy moved to Aspen in 1998 where he began teaching for the Aspen Skiing Company and subsequently founded the BUMPS FOR BOOMERS program.
