Rae-a Moughty, Campfire Institute

The suicide rate amongst Queer teens is ginormous… If these little moments, laying in the snow, looking at the stars, can help give them just a tiny bit of resilience, then I want to keep giving them camp. So I never turn anyone away.

Kat Ripley, Juniper Moss Guide Services

I don’t even think I fully had realized at the time that that’s what I was doing, was trying to run away… there was just a draw to go somewhere else and do something grand.

Lindsay Currier, Bikepack Maine

Don’t give up - just have reasonable expectations. I don’t have expectations really for anything anymore in my life, and that’s just made my life a lot better.

I’m really inspired by that whole concept of bringing people together… I’m really fed by relationships and connecting people, and I don’t think I’m going to tire of always creating new ways to do that. The practice of sauna-ing and meeting new people in that context can help a lot of people.

Saige Linsay, Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness

I, in particular, love the whitewater community, and I’m not saying that our community isn’t great - but we can always make it better, right??

Tori Gray, The Wilderness Guru

I actually find a lot of peace in sitting in silence in the wilderness, because to me - it’s not sitting in silence.

Emily Mackeown, Maine GearShare

Managing gear, if that’s not what you’re designed to do, just sucks!

Lisa Holcomb, Wander the Whites

The guides are so diverse here, from going on an Appalachian Mountain Club tour to ice climbing, and all of the other guides in between. I like falling in between, at that moderate stage.

Ari Leach, Blackbird Guide Services

The thing that meant the most to me when I received my license wasn’t my patch or my physical license…My mom met me at the door with a box, and inside was my grandmother’s very last license, her patches, her hunting jacket, and her silver Maine guide shield.

Charlotte & Georgia Clews

So when I had kids, I totally had this vision of taking them out in the stroller on the Pacific Crest Trail, you know, the rugged stroller. That’s not realistic, by the way.

Ashley Flowers, Ashley Flowers Yoga

Connection with another human is scary. Staring into the eyes of a little baby goat, on the other hand, is just not scary… they’re so funny and ridiculous.

Alice Bean Andrenyak, Alice's Awesome Adventures

If I can have two ‘aha!’ moments from the people that I’ve had out that day, that fuels me for the next day.