Some people come to Incline Village to work, others to retire.  Wayne McClelland moved to town to do both, sort of, if you can count climbing mountains as retirement.

McClelland grew up in upstate New York in the town of Holley, near Niagara Falls.  He left the Empire State for the University of Cincinnati, where he earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering.

From there, he spent 25 years working with a high-end computer-aided design (CAD) software development company, which exposed him to computers and sent him to different places around the world.

Five years ago, he went into business for himself, creating his company WAMware.  With offices in Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, and Sunnyvale, along with three offices in Germany, travel became a big part of his routine.

After a couple of years, he sought to phase himself out of the day-to-day operations, and began looking for a nice place his wife Cindy and son Sean could call home that had an airport nearby.

What he found in Incline Village was a little more than he planned on.

"When I first came here, my priorities were work and travel," he said.  "Then I discovered other priorities, like skiing and hiking.  I'm now a skiing and hiking bum and proud of it."

Between his occasional work assignments, McClelland finds time to participate in hikes with three hiking groups in the summer, as well as skiing four or five times a week in the winter with the masters ski program at Diamond Peak.

One of his favorite fun hikes is called the Awful Awful, which starts near Sugar Bowl ski area and goes to Squaw Valley, about 16 miles.

He got the bug to expand into mountaineering when he and his buddy Dan Holets hiked up the 14,497-foot Mount Whitney.

Two weeks ago, they climbed the 14,410-foot Mount Rainier in Washington.  It took he and his buddy three days to get up and down.  Fortunately they had clear skies all three days on a mountain famous for year-round snow storms and inhospitable weather.

"That's serious -- crampons, ice axes, crevasses," he said of Rainier.  "We even had a little rock slide fall on us."

Next on the climbing agenda is Mount Shasta.

Besides his work and hobbies, McClelland volunteers for several organizations such as the Incline Star Follies and the Lake Tahoe Chautauqua Festival.