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Cyndi Wyatt

Cyndi Wyatt

Cyndi Wyatt is a Fitness Ambassador, Sales Lead, Outdoor School Instructor and writer for REI.  Her free time is divided between spending time with her three ki...
Joseph Concannon

Joseph Concannon

My name is Joe Concannon. I come from Wisconsin and live in Seattle, where I work at the Bureau of Fearless Ideas and trek throughout the Cascades in search of ...
Whitney James

Whitney James

Whitney James is a freelance marketing creative based in Boulder, Colorado. When she's not online you can find her exploring the West on her mountain bike or by...
Hilary Oliver

Hilary Oliver

Hilary Oliver is a freelance writer, filmmaker and contributing climb editor for the Co-op Journal. Her work has appeared in magazines and websites like Outside...
Stasia Raines

Stasia Raines

Stasia works as the director of marketing and communications for the Outdoor Foundation, the national not-for-profit organization dedicated to inspiring and gro...
Shelby Carpenter

Shelby Carpenter

Shelby Carpenter is a freelance writer and professional mountain guide based in Berkeley, California. Her work has appeared in Outside, Rock and Ice, Alaska Mag...
Jaeger Shaw

Jaeger Shaw

Jaeger Shaw is the primary brand voice of Outdoor Research. As a Seattle native, he learned the art of backpacking in the Olympics and Cascades, but travels ann...
Morgan Dixon

Morgan Dixon

Morgan is a relentless street organizer who is deeply inspired by her family and the philosophies of women. As the co-Founder of GirlTrek, a groundbreaking thre...
Erik Nilson

Erik Nilson

Erik Nilson is a digital asset librarian and part-time technical product developer at REI. He’s a PNW native and considers the outdoors his home. He’s been moun...
Sage Rountree

Sage Rountree

Sage Rountree is a pioneer in yoga for athletes and an endurance sports coach whose most recent books are Racing Wisely and Everyday Yoga. An ambassador for prA...
Amy Kober

Amy Kober

Amy Kober is the senior communications director for American Rivers, the nation's leading river conservation organization that works to protect wild rivers, res...
Holly Smolenski

Holly Smolenski

Holly Smolenski is Communications & Marketing Director at the Access Fund, the non-profit advocacy group that keeps U.S. climbing areas open and conserves t...