Contributors

A magazine is only as good as those who make it happen. Meet the writers, poets, photographers, and artists who have contributed to Mountain Gazette since its revival at issue 194.

Adam Howard

Adam Howard is the CEO of Height of Land Publications, publishers of Backcountry, Alpinist, Mountain Flyer, and Cross Country Skier. A fierce advocate for independent publishing, Howie is a talented writer, ski coach, and raconteur. He is among the most respected outdoor editors, and his guidance and friendship indirectly helped resurrect Mountain Gazette. He lives in Vermont with his wife and two daughters.

Ari Schneider

Ari Schneider is an investigative journalist and senior writer for Mountain Gazette. His
work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Vogue, and Slate. He was born and raised in the Green Mountains of Vermont and enjoys
climbing, motorcycles, dogs, good socks, and good books. He resides in Colorado.

Chanelle Nibbelink

Chanelle Nibbelink is a Canadian-American freelance illustrator based in California. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, Scientific American, Reader's Digest, and dozens of other outlets. She applies her conceptual thinking, shape-based style, and boundless curiosity to all of her professional and personal projects. In her free time, you can spot Chanelle rock climbing, practicing yoga, learning a new ditty on the ukulele, whipping up some mean vegan food, or falling asleep to a lighthearted book. Though she wears many hats, there is nothing she wants to do more than entertain. She resides in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, with her dog, Teddy.

Cy Whitling

Cy Whiting started ski blading before he ever went skiing and that's all you really need to know. He swings hammers and paintbrushes in Idaho, frequently taking breaks to give his dog belly scratches. His work can be found on Instagram at @cywhitling.

Daniel Arnold

Daniel Arnold is a New York City street, Instagram, and fashion photographer. He captures the city as it exists in the moment. His images appear regularly in Vogue and The New York Times. Follow his work at@arnold _daniel.

David Meerman Scott

David Meerman Scott loves to make lists. He's been to 107 countries, all 50 U.S. states, all seven continents, and, as of this writing, 921 live music shows. He's passionate about hiking, kayaking, and surfing, and is a fan of the Apollo lunar program. David is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 13 books, including Fanocracy and Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, and is working on a book about the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Dick Doroworth

Dick Dorworth is passionate about mountains, skiing and the written word as a path in life. He has contributed to Mountain Gazette since its inception in 1966. Dorworth lives in Ketchum, Idaho, and Bozeman, Montana and invites everyone to visit his blog at DickDorworth.com.

Emily Tidwell

Emily Tidwell is an avid skier, mediocre runner, and senior photographer at Mountain Gazette. When she's not skinny-dipping in alpine lakes for captivating stories found here, you can find her gallivanting around the world, capturing your favorite outdoor sports. While she's spent 15 years on the West Coast, she'll still over-enunciate the vowel in any word, just like her Minnesota roots taught her. She now resides in Reno, Nevada.

Erica Zazo

Erica Zazo (she/they) is a Chicago-based freelance outdoor writer with a passion for
urban nature, exploring lesser-known trails and towns, and finding local taprooms near the trailhead. She's a firm believer that any adventure is a worthwhile adventure-no
matter the miles traveled, elevation gained, or records set- and hopes her words inspire folks to get outside, even if it's in their own backyard. When she's not writing, you'll find Erica camping, hiking, and drinking hoppy IPAs with her wife, Courtney. The Midwest is their favorite stomping ground.

Gabby Dodd

Gabby Dodd grew up in Durango, Colorado and moved to Lake Tahoe in 2016. She graduated from Sierra Nevada University in May 2020 with a degree in journalism and communications. Gabby's first passion is skiing, but she also enjoys mountain biking, skateboarding, paddle boarding and hiking.

George Sibley

George Sibley came to the mountains of the Gunnison River region in 1966 and stayed. He has now written for all three risings of Mountain Gazette and has a couple of books derived from that experience: Part of a Winter and Dragons in Paradise. At 82, he's more of a valley man now.

Gina Danza

Gina Danza (Wild Gina) is a fine art landscape photographer and artist in Arizona. She uses natural light and the sun as a way to enhance her storytelling in natural settings. She can be found on Instagram at @wildginaa.

Grace Staberg

Grace Staberg is a professional runner and ski mountaineer for Dynafit. Originally from
Silverthorne, Colorado, she now lives in Chamonix France. When not in the mountains, she is a student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She competes on the Skimo World Cup, in ultrarunning races, and occasionally in very contrived adventures, like skiing for 24 hours in the name of fun. She's equally passionate about creativity, mental-health advocacy, and curling up in front of the fire with good coffee and a good book.

Hans Ludwig

Hans Ludwig was a washed-up mogul skier from Colorado who moved to California to wash up even harder as a backcountry skier. Thanks to an introduction to Powder Photo Editor Dave Reddick by skier Glen Plake on Mammoth's Chair 23, he was a correspondent/senior correspondent at Powder magazine for more than 20 years. Besides writing the "Jaded Local" column, he mostly spent that time in remote, scary places and skiing deep snow, unleashing blitzkrieg attacks on the corporate expense account at the bar with ski patrollers, and blowing his knees while heli-skiing. Hans is currently trying to resurrect Powder and writing the soon-to-be-released Mustache Squad: Couloir of the Damned, a psychedelic odyssey of alpine self-actualization and supernatural intrigue.

Hannah Eddy

Hannah Eddy grew up by the ocean in Maine, but her love of the mountains brought her out West. She is currently based in Reno, Nevada, nestled close to the Sierra Nevada, which she loves exploring. As a snowboard, skateboard, and surf enthusiast, her art is inspired by seeking adventure outdoors and caring for our planet and each other. Hannah uses fun colors and a lighthearted illustrative style to evoke a playful interaction with nature. Her art spreads positivity and reminds us to have a little more empathy, let our hair down, and have some fun.

Harry Bliss & Steve Martin

Steve Martin and Harry Bliss began collaborating in 2019. Their cartoon work appears in syndication and in the New Yorker. Their comic strip about the outdoors and art history appears exclusively in Mountain Gazette. Together, they have released two books, A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection and Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions.

Heidi Hansen

Heidi Hansen and her six siblings grew up in a family of artists and musicians in a picturesque village in Norway, surrounded by raw nature and breathtaking scenery. This upbringing instilled her with a strong passion for nature and inspiration for photography from a young age. Heidi's travels brought her to Nazaré, Portugal, and the enchanting village found its way into her heart. Her love of the ocean and respect for nature is portrayed in her depiction of some of the largest waves in the world.

Ingrid Backstrom

Ingrid Backstrom is a professional skier, mother, and sometimes writer. She has appeared in over 20 ski films and feels fortunate to have skied from the tops and sides of mountains all over the world including Pakistan, Antarctica, Greenland, Denali, and China.

Jason Harmon

Jason Harmon is an Ozark Mountains native, a former newspaper and magazine editor, an award-winning environmental journalist, and an avid angler who currently works as a fly-fishing guide on Arkansas' White River.

Jason Roman

Jason Roman is a photographer and content creator born and raised in New York. His photography documents and reframes the mundane into moments of note. He has been featured by Leica, New York magazine, and Genius, among others.

Javier Alonso

Javi Alonso is a nature lover, former athlete, and passionate outdoor photographer. Although he calls the Spanish Pyrenees home, he has been dreaming about (and chasing) photography projects around the world for nearly a decade. His work combines an artistic point of view with creative editing, while never straying from the real stories found adventuring in the mountains. Currently, Javi is participating in the Everest Recycling Project, developing a documentary during his time on Everest and Lhotse. He is based in Val d'Aran, Spain.

Jay Blakesberg

Jay Blakesberg is best known for his music photography, beginning in 1978. He has worked with many legendary artists, including the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Carlos Santana, Tom Waits, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Flaming Lips, to name a few. Jay's work has been published in thousands of magazines worldwide, in books, and in many documentary films. He has published 16 coffee-table books of his work, with 14 of them under his self-publishing imprint, Rock Out Books. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Jenny Wyss Ulrich

Jenny Wyss Ulrich grew up in the coastal forests of Oregon to become an artist, education leader, and naturalist. As a child, she met author-illustrator Barbara Cooney, who challenged her to make the world a more beautiful place. With her first children's picture book underway, she hopes to fulfill her promise. Inspired by sharing lessons of self-reliance and interconnectedness with her daughter, Jenny's storytelling and paintings bring the Cloud Girls' legacy to life for the youngest audience. She lives in North Lake Tahoe, California.

Jeremy Jones

As an award-winning snowboarder, environmentalist and entrepreneur, Jeremy Jones is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished action-sports athletes of all time. In 2007, Jeremy founded Protect Our Winters, a global cause uniting the winter-sports community against climate change. He was named a Champion of Change by President Barack Obama in 2013 for his work with the nonprofit organization. He lives in Truckee, California, with wife Tiffany and two kids.

Katie Burrell

Katie Burrell is a comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, and "professional leisure athlete." With a background in stand-up comedy and improv, her character-driven creative skills have ranged from award-winning short films Dream Job and Coach to viral branded content on social media. Burrell wrote, directed, and starred in her first feature film, Weak Layers, released to critical acclaim in fall 2023. Although she wears many hats, there is nothing she wants to do more than entertain. She resides in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, with her dog, Teddy.

Kayden Richards

Kayden Richards is an ancestral native of the Virgin Islands, from St. John.
Fascinated with animals and nature, he grew up watching hours of Animal
Planet and nature documentaries, and looked up to his grandfather, Alva Richards, known in the family as the Animal Whisperer. He moved back to St. John, saved up to buy his first camera, a Canon Rebel T6, and works at a shelter.

Lily Krass

Lily Krass is a freelance storyteller. Her work has been featured in SKI, Powder, Freeskier, Teton Gravity Research, and Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal. In addition to an all-consuming addiction to powder skiing, Lily takes snacking seriously. She is the co-author of Beyond Skid: A Cookbook for Ski Bums, a collection of dirtbag- friendly recipes inspired by life in a mountain town. She lives in Jackson, Wyoming.

Liz Chamberlain

Liz Chamberlain hails from the illustrious hills of Truckee, California. As an athlete of unmatched prowess and prestige, you will likely find her tripping uphill or going over the handlebars at 30 miles an hour. Don't be alarmed. She usually bounces back.

Mason Mashon

Mason Mashon is an Indigenous adventure-sports photographer based in Whistler, British Columbia. But that's not the whole story. A new father, an accomplished mountain biker, snowboarder, artist, and occasional TV host, Mason broke into the winter-sports world with the legendary Voleurz crew. He is a senior photographer at Mountain Gazette.

Norman Maclean

One of America's most cherished outdoor writers, Norman Maclean is the author of ARiver Runs Through It and Other Stories. He taught English at the University of Chicago, focusing primarily on Romantic Poets and Shakespeare. Maclean died in 1990.

Peter Kray

Peter Kray is a former editor of Mountain Gazette and the author of American Snow, a
history of U.S. snow-sports instruction, and The God of Skiing, which writer Porter Fox has called "the greatest ski novel of all time." He likes walking his black Labradors Rose Marie and Moses Leaf in the open fields south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, listening to his wife, Catherine, play piano, and telling anyone who will listen why there should be more books about skiing. His advice for every hopeful writer is, "Trust your voice, write what you want to read, take chances, and put the work in."

Rachel Sturtz

Rachel Sturtz is a writer and award-winning journalist living in Denver, Colorado. For the past two decades, she's written investigative features, profiles, travel stories, and gear guides for more than 40 national and regional publications. In 2020, she won the Folio award for best B2B long-form feature content for "Unsafe Space," an investigative piece for The Voice (since renamed Outside Business Journal) that looked into sex, abuse, and power in the outdoor industry. Rachel's work also has appeared in New York magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Runner's World, Women's Health, Hemispheres, and Popular Mechanics, among others.

Re Wikstrom

Re Wikstrom has mountain biked in Canada, rafted the Idaho-Oregon border, ski toured in the Arctic, and traveled to many wild places alongside strong, inspiring women. Her mission is close to her heart: to use photography to bring female athletes to the forefront of the outdoor world. Re, who earned a BFA in photography and visual media from the Rochester Institute of Technology, has had her work appear in Backcountry magazine, Powder, Skiing, and more. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Reza Farazmand

Reza Farazmand is a New York Times bestselling author, comedy writer, and creator of the popular internet comic series Poorly Drawn Lines. He has published four books. His work has been featured in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Adventure Time comics, Buzzfeed, and on NPR and Comedy Central. Poorly Drawn Lines debuted as a show on FX last summer. He lives and draws in Los Angeles.

Ryan Storm

Ryan Storm is a music journalist, podcaster, and fan of jam-band music. He writes for JamBase, hosts three podcasts, and routinely appears on music podcasts as an expert on the bands Phish, Goose, Snarky Puppy, and more. Storm is referred to as "the Almost Famous kid" by several music-industry vets for the similarities of his career trajectory to that of former Rolling Stone contributor and film director Cameron Crowe. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Sadie Stein

Sadie Stein's writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, and many other places. She loves walking and exploring the many hidden natural treasures of her native New York City and hiking and camping whenever she can.

Shannon Rogge

Shannon Rogge is a marriage and family therapist in private practice in Northern California. Her diverse training, along with a passion for all things wild and Earth- based, has nourished her practice over the years. Rogge feels profoundly connected to the natural world and works hard to both embody and teach this reverence to others.

Tao Lin

Tao Lin is the author of ten books, including Trip (2018) and Taipei (2013). His next book, Leave Society, is forthcoming from Vintage Books. He edits Muumuu House and lives in Hawaii.

The Tinfoil Biter

The Tinfoil Biter received her first camera (a Canon AE-1 Program) at 17, as a gift from her grandfather. She does not go by her real name professionally. In 2005, she received her Harper's Bazaar, Ele, Numero, Vmagazine, Marie Claire, L'Officiel, and more.

Thomas Morton

Thomas Morton is a writer and television host. He was a producer and correspondent for Vice on HBO. He is the Editor-at-Large at Mountain Gazette and lives in New York.

Will Grant

Wil Grant lives outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. He's been working as a journalist since 2010. He writes mostly about the people and the landscape of the American West. He's a contributor to Outside, the former action-sports editor for VICE Sports, and has written for a handful of regional publications. His first book, The Last Ride of the Pony Express, will be published this summer. Before turning to journalism, he worked as a cowboy and a horse trainer. He was born and raised south of Denver, Colorado, and has held jobs in California, Wyoming, and Texas.

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