Ashley Karol

Ashley Karol

Ashley grew up in Calgary AB with her fondest childhood memories being time spent with family adventuring in the playground provided by Alberta’s mountains, lakes, and rivers. Now based in Vancouver BC she continues to spend as much time as...

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Ryan Stuart

Ryan Stuart

Ryan is a freelance journalists reporting from the intersection of adventure sports, the environment and sustainability. His work has appeared in Outside, Men’s Journal, Canadian Geographic and many others and he’s a contributor to Explore...

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Rob Thomas

Rob Thomas

Rob Thomas is an outdoor enthusiast and a graduate of MUN Grenfell Campus Environmental Studies. Currently working as an Experience Development Officer with Qalipu First Nation, he works closely with many tourism operators and partners while...

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Taryn Eyton

Taryn Eyton

Taryn is a Squamish, BC-based hiking and adventure travel writer and Leave No Trace Master Educator. She is the founder of the hiking website HappiestOutdoors.ca and the author of Backpacking in Southwestern British Columbia: The Essential Guide...

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Richard Vinson

Richard Vinson

Richard brings a lifetime of experience to Leave No Trace from the private and public sectors. As a retired outdoor educator, he pioneered innovative outdoor pursuits programs in Alberta and Nova Scotia that set the stage for those who followed...

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Patrick Auger

Patrick Auger

Patrick is a certified hiking guide in Canada, public speaker, avid hiker and Leave No Trace trainer. Certified in Wilderness & Remote First Aid with the Canadian Red Cross he is passionate about the outdoors, with extensive experience hiking...

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Ashley Ekelund

Ashley Ekelund

Ashley had the mountains as her backyard and all the freedom to roam a kid could imagine. From an early age on, hiking, camping, backpacking and all things natural have been an important source of energy, grounding, and growth for this nature...

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Lucas Grolleau

Lucas Grolleau

Lucas Grolleau is of Swiss and has been living in Quebec for 7 years. Involved in the outdoors from a young age, he grew up partly in the Swiss mountains, a place he regularly visits with a backpack on. His idea of happiness: discovering the...

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Haven Holsapple

Haven Holsapple

In 1967, Haven traveled west to take a course from a new school called NOLS. At the end of the course, he decided that was exactly what he wanted to do. He started working for the school in 1969 and worked through 1975, leaving that year to...

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