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Maddie Wilcox

Maddie Wilcox

Maddie Wilcox is a proud Midwesterner who loves nerding out over travel, politics and hiking. After graduating from Drake University, she made Iowa her forever ...
Lisa Michelle

Lisa Michelle

Lisa Michelle is a former rodeo cowgirl who swapped spurs for hiking boots when she moved to the Sierra Nevada over three decades ago. Her passion for snowboard...
McKenna Ownby

McKenna Ownby

McKenna is a writer, editor, and storyteller based in the Pacific Northwest. She specializes in bringing people-centered stories to life and has a passion for n...
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Davi Gray

Davi Gray (they/she) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, and abolitionist. They live in Minneapolis (Bde Óta Othúŋwe), on un...
Heidi Wachter

Heidi Wachter

Heidi Wachter is a health, climate and travel writer, and a certified forest therapy guide. REI Member since 2004....
Dakota Kim

Dakota Kim

Dakota Kim is a writer living in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. She previously worked at Sunset and Edible San Luis Obispo, and owned a restaurant....
Astra Lincoln

Astra Lincoln

Astra Lincoln is a writer working at the intersection of people, power and place. Her work has taken her to the Alaskan arctic, the Colombian Andres, and across...
Sarah MacAaron

Sarah MacAaron

Sarah MacAaron is a film and commercial producer from Washington state. Growing up with the Soos Creek Watershed in her backyard, she developed a deep love of n...
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Meredith O’Connor

Meredith O'Connor is a copywriter, journalist, dirty chai devotee and Rocky fangirl. When she's not writing or brainstorming new content, you'll find her enjoyi...
Mardi Fuller

Mardi Fuller

Mardi Fuller advocates for racial equity through writing, speaking and community building.  She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and works as a freelance writer,...
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Lyla Harrod

Lyla “Sugar” Harrod is a sober, queer transgender woman with over 11,000 miles of long-distance hiking experience. She is the first transgender woman to complet...