Sara, or Socks, is an artist and overall gear nerd. She has been a hiker and backpacker for over 20 years, and is also a snowboarder and former ski patroller. When she’s not running ops for Treeline or testing gear, you can usually find her outside — backpacking, hiking, running, skiing, or painting.
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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 long multi-pitch climbs. She currently works as a columnist for Backpacker Magazine. When she isn’t writing, she can typically be found in the Rocky Mountains with her pups.
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Mary Murphy split her time growing up between the oceans of the East coast and the mountains of Colorado. Paddling is one of her passions (paddleboarding, kayaking, or packrafting), as well as climbing, hiking, and backpacking. She’s section-hiked on the CDT, CT, and AT and just generally loves to be outside. You can find her mountain biking, rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, SUPing, skiing, or ice climbing near Golden, Colo.
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Elliot Koeppel is a recent college grad who just finished his first-ever thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail — a six-month trek he called awesome. In his free time, he can be found hiking, drawing, and watercolor painting.
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Kate Hoch is a thru-hiker, climber, mountaineer and outdoor writer based in the Pacific Northwest.
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Cade Kloberdanz is a lifelong fly fishing angler with a passion for conservation and disabled access to the outdoors for all
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Tiffany Searsdodd is an outdoor writer, instructor and former guide with 20 years experience outfitting people to feel comfortable outdoors.
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Sonja Lind is an outdoor writer, educator, and traveler. She enjoys exploring, listening, and learning and brings that curiosity and respect to how she writes about the outdoors.
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Trey French is an outdoor writer specializes in trail running, hiking, backpacking, biking, and skiing.
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Katie Gerber is a holistic nutrition coach who is inspired to help people optimize their health, so they can feel great doing what they love.
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Jocelyn Crawford is a rock climber and environmentalist who works to reduce the impact of outdoor recreation on the planet.
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Dani Reyes-Acosta is a professional rock climber, skier, and trail runner who is a storyteller rewriting the narrative of who plays outside and how we build community with others on this planet.
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I am a long-distance hiker and a Special Education teacher. I’ve picked up some scrambling skills in the past few years to extend my outdoor opportunities and there is no place I would rather be than outside.
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Liam “Hot Take” Purtle is an outdoor enthusiast from the suburbs of Chicago who currently resides in Salt Lake City, UT.
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Author is a Utah-based trail runner, thru-hiker, and podium-ing ultramarathoner who writes outdoor gear reviews and outdoor columns for Treeline Review.
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