Mary Beth Skylis
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Mary Beth Skylis.
Mary Beth Skylis is a freelance writer who specializes in adventure content and travel. She’s been climbing across the globe for more than a decade, and is a total sucker for limestone and granite rock, and long multi-pitch climbs. She currently works as a columnist for Backpacker Magazine. She also has by-lines in Climbing, REI, Alaska Magazine, Women’s Health, Outside Magazine, Trail Runner, SELF, 5280, and Yellow Scene. When she isn’t writing, she can typically be found in the Rocky Mountains with her pups.
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