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Picture of Ambreen Tariq in the desert.

Ambreen Tariq

Ambreen Tariq is the founder of @BrownPeopleCamping, a social media initiative that utilizes personal narratives and digital storytelling to promote greater div...
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Jenny Abegg

Raised by mountain-loving parents on the flanks of the North Cascades, Jenny’s idea of a perfect day starts and ends wearing a headlamp, and includes a snowy ap...
Grace and Carlos Luna

Carlos and Grace Luna

Carlos and Grace Luna are a husband and wife duo who love the outdoors. They believe in zero-waste hiking and living minimally, consciously and intentionally on...
Brittany Goris

Brittany Goris

Brittany Goris is a freelance writer from Seattle, who writes about climbing when it’s too rainy to do the real thing. She has written for Climbing, Rock and Ic...
Jaclyn Ruckle head shot in the snow

Jaclyn Ruckle

Jaclyn Ruckle is the manager of the REI social media team. She’s a full-time mountain lady and a one-time hair model. REI Member since 2011....
Clare Gallagher

Clare Gallagher

Ultrarunner Clare Gallagher studied coral ecology and ran cross country and track at Princeton. After college, she taught English in Thailand, where she also ra...
Erin Beresini

Erin Beresini

Erin Beresini is the author of Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing. She once ran a 100-miler, very slowly....
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Fresh Off the Grid

FRESH OFF THE GRID is a culinary resource for the outdoor community. Written by Megan McDuffie and Michael van Vliet, Fresh Off the Grid offers camp cooking rec...
Karen Wang jumping on the PCT

Karen Wang

Growing up in Texas and now living in Seattle, Karen discovered the outdoors only 3 years ago and fell in love. She loved the wilderness so much that she decide...
Anya Miller

Anya Miller

Anya likes all things 80s, tacky granite, hippy pow, hand-drawn diagrams and baby goat videos. She spends her free time in the Cascades and happily works with t...
Aer Parris

Aer Parris

Hailing from the city that never sleeps, writer and adventurer Aer Parris escaped the hustle during a cross-country cycling trip and never looked back. Happiest...
Nooshin Razani

Nooshin Razani

Nooshin Razani, MD, MPH is a pediatric clinical scientist and Nature Champion. She was trained as a Nature Champion by the National Environmental Education Fund...