Ali Carr Troxell is an outdoor gear expert and adventure travel writer based in Seattle, Washington. She’s worked in print as an editor at Outside magazine, in ...
Thom Schroeder is a manager in REI’s Media Studio. A climber. A photographer. A backpacker. A skier. A lover of mountains and wild places. REI member and employ...
Gabe Grayum is a photographer, product designer, and brand ambassador based in Mazama, WA. He and his family relocated to this remote corner of the North Cascad...
Deanne Buck is Executive Director of the Outdoor Industries Women’s Coalition, the only national organization dedicated to workplace equity, diversity and inclu...
Lois Parshley is a journalist and photographer. She writes about the outdoors, science, and politics for Outside, Adventure Journal, Popular Science, The Atlant...
Jerry Stritzke served as REI president and CEO from 2013 to 2019. When he’s not at home in Seattle, he’s tackling a Colorado 14er, fly-fishing and whitewater ka...
Cliff Mass is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and has been an editor ...
Vermonters Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson have spent well over 1000 nights in a tent together. Having shaped their lives and work around human-powered forays thro...
Scott Schell is the Program Director of the Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC) in charge of the education program and observers network. He is a certified AMGA ...
Matthew Rochat is a traveler, writer and amateur photographer currently based in San Francisco, CA. A relative newcomer to the REI membership community, joining...
Living in the shadows of the Tetons, Jeff Brines is the co-founder & editor of the ski media website Earlyups.com, has produced films such as "Pretty Faces"...
