CONTRIBUTORS
FALL | 2013 Volume 8. Issue 3
Alyson Indrunas is counting down the days until she can return to the Olympics. She’d like to thank Tami Garrard for capturing the many lovely pictures featured in her article. In this photo, she laughs at the largest marmot she has ever seen as he quakes with rage and shows his teeth.
Aaron Theisen hikes, bikes and runs across the Inland Northwest as a freelance writer and photographer. He is currently writing Day Hiking Mt. St. Helens with Craig Romano. Aaron wrote about snowshoeing in the Methow Valley for the Winter 2013 issue of Adventures NW. Floris van Breugel is a part-time nature photographer and fulltime PhD student at Caltech and the University of Washington, studying the neurobiology of behavior in fruit flies. In both careers, he strives to marry art and science to give rise to creative visions. Visit his website at artinnaturephotography.com
After moving to Bellingham in 1998, Lanny Little literally painted the town. The Old Town, Village Green and Carnegie Library murals, to name a few. Since then he has transitioned into painting urban and northwest landscapes in acrylics on canvas. Lanny is represented by the Lucia Douglas Gallery in Fairhaven and the Matzke Fine Art Gallery on Camano Island. Christian Martin is a freelance writer based in Bellingham. He is the co-author of a book on the North Cascades to be published by Mountaineers Books in 2014 and works as communications coordinator for North Cascades Institute. He enjoys hiking, sea kayaking, hot springing, cooking, gardening and making the annual pilgrimage to the Burning Man festival in Nevada. More at moontrolling.com Dave Mauro is a longtime resident of Bellingham and father of two. He works as a Financial Planner at UBS, and often performs improv at the Upfront Theatre. More than adventure itself, Dave loves to share the experiences of adventure through his blogs and published works. He has stood atop the highest points of all seven continents.
A Look Ahead: Our Winter Issue Trail Running Winter Kayaking Snowshoeing Mount Rainier
Dale McKinnon is a sometimes inappropriate gramma living in Bellingham. She learned to row at 57, and proceeded to solo row the length of the Inside Passage over two summers. She usually meanders through the San Juans and Gulf Islands in one of her boats, often with no particular destination. David Moskowitz, a professional wildlife tracker, photographer, outdoor educator, and avid mountaineer, has contributed to wildlife studies in the Pacific Northwest and in the Canadian and U.S. Rocky Mountains. He is the author of Wolves in the Land of Salmon and Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest, both from Timber Press.
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