I’ve always loved playing outside, as long as I can remember. But when I moved to the Pacific Northwest in my mid-twenties, I started figuring out how to blend work and play into a lifestyle where I can be outdoors as much as possible.
Growing up on the east coast, I was influenced by the idea that my life should be built around my career. I went to law school because it seemed like an interesting and intellectually rewarding career path. After school, I moved West and practiced law in a rural town in Oregon. However, I quickly realized that I could not happily spend 40-50 hours every week in an office and a courtroom, sometimes working on weekends, and only squeezing in time in the mountains a couple times each month.
Fast forward 10 years, during which I left law practice and worked in marketing and communications for various outdoor companies, and began pursuing professional work in the snow and avalanche industry. I also dove deep into ultrarunning, and developed a love for training and racing mountain 100 milers. At the end of 2021, I was burned out from working from home and feeling much more rewarded by my side gigs: ski guiding, teaching avalanche courses, and freelance writing. I took a leap, and decided to try cobbling together my passion projects into a full-time career.
Now, I spend most of my days in the mountains. My jobs include guiding people in the mountains, usually ski touring but also running, teaching avalanche courses, providing snowpack information and avalanche forecasts through our local avalanche center, and writing about outdoor adventure and the best gear for running and skiing.
There is a flow state among my life’s passions: sliding downhill on snow, leading and teaching others, running on a ribbon of singletrack along a mountain ridgeline. Ramping my favorite activities up and down along the natural shift of the seasons.
As the snow melts in the late spring, I take to the trails. I love the smell of sun-baked dirt and ski clothes that smell like sunscreen. When the snow starts flying in the autumn, I love the ritual of tuning up my ski gear while giving my running legs a break.
The TR1 Mesh 2.0 is my go-to for trails that are transitioning from packed snow, to mud and wet rocks, and back to frozen dirt with a dusting of snow. They’re lightweight, and I trust them to grip on the changing conditions each season brings to my favorite trails. Whether I’m taking advantage of extra daylight to get my dogs out for a post-ski run or celebrating headlamp season with a pre-dawn run on the river trail, this shoe reminds me that I’m always chasing that flow.
TR1 Mesh 2.0
TR1 Mesh 2.0™ is exceptionally breathable, ultra-lightweight and naturally shaped. Its combination of innovative, supercritical foam with exceptional grip and turbo ventilation is designed to flow over wet and dry trails.