About Us

We live for the great outdoors. We obsess over the delicious experience of the 5 senses when we hear the sound of Steller’s blue jays squawking us awake in the morning, when we dip our toes into cold aquamarine-tinted lakes on a blazing hot afternoon, when we smell burning juniper wood in the campfire at night… you get the picture.

Our eyes, ears, noses, and mouths have taken us to many wild places together since our first trip in Yosemite 6 years ago: Zion, Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, the Alps in Switzerland, and the savannah in South Africa and Botswana. Once we got the hang of planning trails, we started bringing out our friends from home in Chicago to explore the places we fell in love with in California. Every year, we use the summer to forge new bonds with old friends, and we are looking for more people to share the incredible and challenging experience of hiking in the backcountry, making fires, fishing, weathering snow and rain storms, and yes, pooping in the woods.