My Story

I grew up in a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, a skier and a writer from a young age. After studying English literature and editing for my college newspaper at Middlebury College in Vermont, I was determined to become a journalist.

I got my start reporting for a weekly newspaper in Tahoe, before landing an internship, then a job at Outside Magazine in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After that, I worked (while skiing a ton) as an editor at Skiing Magazine in Boulder, Colorado, then as the freeskiing editor for ESPN.com in Seattle, Washington, where I covered the X Games and the rising sport of freeskiing.

Now, I’m my own boss, a freelance writer, based in Tahoe City, California. I’m a contributing editor at Outside Magazine, an editor-at-large at Backcountry Magazine, and a contributor to publications like the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Ski, Backpacker, and more.

I’ve written stories about overcrowding on our highest summits, a climber who took her own life, and a fatal avalanche I was involved in at Stevens Pass, Washington. I won a 2022 John Swett Award for Media Excellence for a local story, “How the Current School Board Election Became a Battleground.” My profile on an elusive record-breaking thru-hiker was named one of the 13 best adventure stories ever published by Backpacker magazine and a profile I wrote on filmmaker Max Lowe for Outside was an editor’s choice on Longreads. My feature on the death of my stepdad at a remote kayak lodge was featured in an anthology by the editors of Outside, “The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild.”