Betsy Spomer, RN, MSN, M.Ed — Business & Events Coordinator

Veteran life flight nurse, skier, kayaker, and hunter Betsy Spomer brings her energy, creativity, insight, and passion for the wild outdoors to the RSO Team. Betsy’s motivation and drive have helped shape the unfolding of Ron Spomer Outdoors, Inc. into something greater than one man with a typewriter, camera, and gun.

Adventurer Betsy Spomer ran away from home when just seventeen to earn a nursing degree from Vanderbilt. She volunteered to provide health care in Appalachia before returning to graduate school. As a graduate student, she helped develop one of the nation’s first master degree programs for nurse practitioners.

Within twelve years Betsy became a skiier, wilderness kayaker, and backpacker, establishing herself in Idaho where she and five other nurses and paramedics were the first Boise Life Flight helicopter team. An admitted adrenaline junky, Betsy has retired from nursing to co-manage RonSpomerOutdoors.com and Dancing Springs Ranch, their off-grid homestead.

While traveling with Ron as his photographer, Betsy’s grew increasingly interested in hunting. After contributing deer and pronghorn to the family larder, she was motivated to make her first African big game hunt in 2001 with the knowledge that the meat would go to feed her tracker’s family.

Since then, Betsy’s hunting expeditions have taken her back to Namibia twice, to South Africa, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, New Zealand, Alaska, Alberta. British Columbia, South Dakota, Idaho, and Kansas. She met her greatest challenge in the swamps of Mozambique where she took a Cape buffalo bull with one well-placed shot from her 375 H&H.

Betsy serves on the Board of Directors at Ron Spomer Outdoors, Inc.