About Ben

  • March 2021: Teaching middle school during covid. Photo by my student, Chase R.

Contact/Email
benwyrick@gmail.com

Resume/CV:

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  • That’s me on guitar. My students helped me build a recording studio out of a converted office room. Much of the equipment is from grant funding I obtained.

Instagram feed @bethereben

First day of school photo by my student, Terrance A Notice how Sirius is cheering. Photos from my friend Marcos @costco_honey My name in lights 😎 in the screening room at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Silverton, Colorado, earlier this month. Thanks to the audience of runners and visitors who saw my film Hardrock Perspectives. @grandimperialhotel The Grand Imperial Hotel in Silverton, Colorado, earlier this month. My film Hardrock Perspectives was screened there. Many thanks to the hotel staff for technical expertise! @grandimperialhotel Got some great news recently. My documentary Hardrock Perspectives is an official selection of @trailsfilmfest Thanks to team Sirius Black for the support! We finished 21st overall and the time was my second-fastest 🐺 Finishing Hardrock. Thanks Jodee N Jeff VanderKooi for the video and Jonathan Irish and Jeff Allen and Kayla Bicknell and Drew Gunn! I just got into Hardrock off the waitlist. I start Friday at 6 am mountain time! Glad I have a basement home gym when there’s 6 inches of sleet snow on the ground
Don’t take yourself too seriously if you teach middle school
Watch me finish a 100-mile race (with my dog)
  • Climbing to Engineer Pass in the 2021 Hardrock 100. Photo by Chris Hammes.
I finished the Appalachian Trail in 2003. It changed my life.
  • Shot on film in 2001: my solo tour of the Blue Ridge Parkway