Ryan Crater

 Do you have any nicknames?  

    Yeah, Rybo. My ex-wife, her brother called me the Rybonator, and then it got cut down to Rybo. And now people when I first meet them say, Rybo!

Whats your favorite article

of clothing?

    Im into shoes; I love shoes. My most favorite pair of all time are my low cut Dockers. Theyre very comfortable on my feet and are stylish with any outfit.

Tell me a joke.

    I have jokes, but I dont know if you want to publish them!

Whats the biggest challenge

youve ever conquered?

    Probably college, just being that I didnt try very hard in high school. In fact, Im surprised I graduated. After the Army, I made it a goal to finish college and I did. It just took a lot of time and effort and lots of extra classes I probably shouldnt have had to take.

If you had the chance to be invisible for a day, what would you do?

    If I could be invisible for a day, I would walk around Congress, sneak in all the offices and see whats really going on behind closed doors.

Whats your guiltiest pleasure?

    Ice cream. Butter pecan is my favorite. If Im not careful, I could eat a whole gallon in one night.

If you could bring something

extinct back to life, what

would it be?

    I would say probably the wooly mammoth. I just I think it would be pretty cool to have wooly mammoths or mastodons running around North America again.

What would you want your last meal to be?

    Probably a seafood platter full of king crab, lobster tails, and then a side of crawfish from Louisiana. I could go for 10 pounds of crawfish right now, with some cooked potatoes and corn.

When is the last time you laughed really hard, and

what was so funny?

    Last year my buddy from Tri Cities and I, we were out elk hunting. We were out in Naselle area, and we got lost. So I had to call a friend of mine. So we worked our way out of the woods after four hours in the dark. I called a friend of mine and had the fire chief from Naselle come and pick us up and take us back to my truck. My buddy was all calm and cool and collected and I was all freaking out, as he said. So we laughed about that the next day.

Whats your favorite holiday

or celebration?

    My favorite holiday is Christmas. The reason I like Christmas is I like getting together with family and eating a lot. I like to eat lutefisk, I eat about 2 pounds of it every Christmas. Im Norwegian so I have to eat it, but I like to eat it.

Ryan Crater grew up in Shelton and upon finishing high school, served in the U.S. Army for five years. From there, he earned an associates degree in environmental science and then received his Bachelor of Science degree in ecology and land use planning from Evergeen State College. Now a land use planner for the Pacific County Department of Community Development, he once worked as a project manager for Clear Water Compliance Services, a planner for Mason County, and a field manager for CH2M Hill at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. A resident of Ilwaco, he also serves on the Ilwaco Planning Commission and is a volunteer firefighter with the Ilwaco Fire Department. In his free time, he likes to go to Lake Quinault, fish and hunt.