Archives: Biographies

Franklin Seal

Franklin Seal

Franklin is Operations Manager for Rim Tours, Moab’s original mountain bike outfitter. He’s been exploring the trails of the Colorado Plateau since 1992 when he...
Sonya Looney

Sonya Looney

Sonya has raced her mountain bike in the Sahara Desert, Himalayas, tropical jungles, and mountain ranges all over the world. Her spirit for adventure, personal ...
Kim Cross

Kim Cross

Kim Cross is the New York Times Best-Selling author of What Stands in a Storm and an IMBA ICP Level II mountain bike instructor....
Graham Averill

Graham Averill

Graham is a senior writer at Bike and a regular contributor to Outside and Backpacker. He lives in Asheville, N.C., where he rides his mountain bike as much as ...
Carol Christensen

Carol Christensen

Carol got her start in the outdoors at the foot of the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. After falling in love with scuba diving in the tropics, she moved to S...
Mikhaila Redovian

Mikhaila Redovian

Raised on a pair of skis in the Rocky Mountains, Mikhaila is a winter sports enthusiast who fills the off-season with on-trail adventures. She enjoys running, h...
Connor W. Davis

Connor W. Davis

Connor W. Davis is a journalist from Weston, Vermont, now living and working in Boulder, Colorado. Through words, photos, videos, maps, and more, he tells passi...
Ben Matthews

Ben Matthews

Ben is an adventure photographer currently based in the American West. He has a strong passion for the outdoors and keeping our wild places wild. Photography is...
Backpacker Magazine

Backpacker Magazine

Learn how to capture pictures you’ll want to show off via an eight-week, self-paced online course: Outdoor Photo School. BACKPACKER Magazine partnered with pro ...
Mikah Meyer

Mikah Meyer

Road Trip and National Parks Expert Mikah Meyer is the first person to visit all of America's 400+ National Park Service sites in a single journey. Called every...
Joel Gratz

Joel Gratz

Meteorologist Joel Gratz is the founder of OpenSummit. OpenSummit provides hourly weather forecasts for hikers of Colorado's highest mountains, including the ch...
Jeremy Goldsmith

Jeremy Goldsmith

After traveling to 40 states—and six years of living in four different ones—Jeremy set up base camp outside of Denver in Evergreen, Colorado. As a geographer an...