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The fieldguides are the heart and soul of our program. They orchestrate the experience from breakfast until bedtime, sharing their outdoor living skills, natural history knowledge, campfire talents, sense of humor, and contagious enthusiasm for camping with kids. All fieldguides have a background working with children in the outdoors and are experienced in safe practices, making learning fun, and group management and teaching techniques. Fieldguides participate in FIELDGUIDES' staff training and are certified in First Aid and CPR. If you feel you have these qualifications, feel free to contact us about employment opportunities. FIELDGUIDES INC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Management TeamTravis began working at FIEDLGUIDES as a group leader in 2012. He holds an Ecology degree from UC Davis, and has over a decade of experience in teaching outdoor living and wilderness backpacking. His past experiences working with youth include camp counseling, ski instructing, and teaching English in southern Spain. Travis has a knack for connecting with students and loves to share his passion for hiking, camping, skiing, and just being outside.
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Travis Winter
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Galen Camp (he/him)
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Galen is the son of Fieldguides' founders Jessie and James Camp. Growing up he was fortunate to attend the programs and spend time with its amazing staff. Those experiences were a major formative force in his life and he knows first hand how spending time outdoors with intelligent, caring, and fun-loving people can positively influence a young person's life. He has worked as a fieldguide and site director since 2007, and is excited and honored to continue the work Fieldguides does as its general manager. He is a University of California at Berkeley graduate, a Wilderness First Responder, and an experienced backpacking and youth leadership guide who obsesses over bay area sports and baking the perfect sourdough loaf.
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Becca has been leading wilderness backpacking programs for youth for over 12 years and has worked as a certified middle school science teacher for the past six years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Lewis & Clark College and earned a Master of Arts in Teaching Degree from Earlham College. Becca loves learning and being outside. She is enthusiastic, always interested in playing a good game, and loves working with kids.
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Rebecca Eastman
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This summer will be Ursula’s second season with Fieldguides, and she could not be more excited to return to the Trinities, Russians, and Marbles after leading two amazing Fieldguides hikes in the summer of 2020. Ursula studied Environmental Science and Forestry at UC Berkeley and works during the year as a field technician. During her free time you might spot her somewhere in her hometown of Arcata, California, where she is probably hiking, climbing, biking, or playing guitar under a tree.
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Ursula Harwood
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Rose Myers
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Rose is from Humboldt County and this will be her second season with Fieldguides. Since age 12 she has spent her summers backpacking in the Trinities and Russian Wilderness, and she can't wait to return to her second home in the mountains! In her off time as a barista, Rose can usually be found at the dance studio, in the redwoods, or playing in the surf. She is very excited to share her love of the outdoors with the kids at Fieldguides this year. |
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Dara is from the San Francisco Bay Area and this is her first summer working at Fieldguides. She originally discovered her love of backpacking at age 11 in the Trinity Alps and is so excited to share that love with others. Dara is currently attending Boston University studying political science and plans to study abroad at Trinity College Dublin in the Fall. When she is home in California, she loves hiking around Mt Tamalpais and the Point Reyes National Seashore. She is passionate about the outdoors and music and she is looking forward to bringing that passion to Fieldguides this summer! |
Dara Noonan
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Taylor Griffin
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Taylor has been involved in youth backpacking trips for over 20 years, ranging from in-over-his-head 11-year-old camper to in-his-element 30-year-old summer camp assistant director, and everything in between. When not out in the wilderness with kids during the summers, Taylor "Mr. Griffn" Griffin spends his year working as a high school English teacher near Seattle, WA. He has been told he is the most fashionable person in the woods, which isn't a useful wilderness skill, but at least he'll look great if things go terribly wrong. |
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Mimi has spent the past 10 summers leading youth backpacking groups through the glorious Northern California wilderness. For the last few summers Mimi has enjoyed her role as a food manager for youth and family outdoor programs, which includes planning, packing, and preparing meals for camping and backpacking trips. She has been caring for children of all ages since she was fourteen, and is thrilled that her work with Fieldguides combines so many of her greatest joys; living, working, and playing outside with children, and bringing people together through community cooking and nourishing meals.
In the “off-season” Mimi works as a maternity massage therapist and infant massage educator in Oregon, and is one year away from completing her B.S. in Applied Health and Physical Education with a focus in health coaching. |
Mimi Chouard (she/her)
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Dion Shaughnessy
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At Fieldguides, Dion is lucky enough to combine two passions of his, being outdoors and working with children. Originally from Humboldt County, he is thrilled to get to share the Trinity Alp Mountains he grew up exploring with others. He is Wilderness First Responder, Lifeguard, an experienced backpacking guide, and ski instructor. He enjoys watching basketball, playing guitar, and beating people at chess. But not Ursula because she’s better then him. |
Miro Andre
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Hello, my name is Miro Andre, and I will be one of your fieldguides this Spring season. I previously worked for Fieldguides in the spring of 2017 and summer of 2020. I am very much looking forward to cultivating another season with you all. Along with my time at Fieldguides I have also been a camp counselor at Camp Unalayee, a backpacking camp in the Trinity Alps Wilderness, for almost five summers. Both of these programs have been very welcoming communities and have shaped and informed my values. To me, it is an incredible privilege to work with and learn from the youth who come to play outside with us at Fieldguides. It never ceases to amaze, the joy and change we can create together in such a small amount of time, when we disconnect from screens and connect with each other in nature. I am looking forward to a season filled with all manners of curiosity, wonder, play, and contemplation in some of my favorite habitats in the California wilderness!
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Kathryn Sullivan “Ryn” (they/them)
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Ryn is passionate about working with youth outdoors and has been following that passion since 2014. From mentoring youth in the art of primitive skills, to guiding new peace makers with the Mosaic Project, to most recently leading expeditions in Minnesota and Texas with Outward Bound Ryn is stoked to bring their varied experience to Fieldguides. California wilderness feels like home to them and they are so excited to share what they know with the next generation. When Ryn is not working outdoors you can find them playing on a pottery wheel, drawing pictures of plants, and making string out of grass while pretending to play the guitar. Ryn is a certified yoga teacher, wilderness first responder, and chicken pants maker.
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This is my first year working with Fieldguides and I am very excited to get back to leading trips in the Trinity Alps wilderness. My backpacking experience includes three years counseling at Unalayee and plenty of hiking in the Trinitys, Russians, and Marble mountain wilderness. As of Spring 2020 I am a graduate from Oregon State University with a degree in Environmental Science, Policy and Economics. I hope to continue on with my studies and specialize in Marine Policy and Management. I am fascinated by the role policy plays in changing the world and am enthusiastic about a career where I can work along the interface between science and policy. When I'm not hiking you can find me playing sports, the piano or getting myself distracted with a book. Really any activity that makes me laugh and think. I am looking forward to some fun, challenging and peaceful hiking with the Fieldguides program.
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Owen Welch
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Anja Dubois
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Anja DuBois is from Ashland, Oregon, and splits her time between life as a wilderness guide and art educator. She enjoys sound-based humor (specifically off-key recorder performances), staying home reading, sleeping under the stars, and talking kindly to uncooperative technology. She has worked leading backpacking trips in the Trinity alps for over 10 years, and is always excited to combine artistic creativity and wilderness experience.
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Albin started as a group leader with Fieldguides in 2012. He has eight years of experience as a backpacking guide and outdoor educator and is returning to Fieldguides as a site director after five years working in the outdoor industry in Vermont. When not working on a building project, Albin spends his free time biking, skiing, and camping.
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Albin Nilsson
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Owen Reiss
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Owen had a great summer on the staff of Fieldguides and is excited for future seasons. The people he has met at Camp Unalayee and the time spent in the Trinity Alps have been really important parts of his life, both as a camper and for the last three summers on staff. During the rest of the year Owen has been learning about plants and music and he loves exploring the woods, dancing, reading, running, and playing the piano.
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The redwood trees and beaches of northern California fill my memories of childhood. In the summers, I got to explore the mountains and lakes of the Trinity Alps. I love spending time in the places where I feel I can be my wild self. For the past five years, I have balanced my time between Arizona and California, ocean and desert. I recently graduated from Prescott College, where I studied writing, dance and adventure education, with an emphasis in wilderness leadership. Professionally, my passion lies in bringing people outside, helping give others new opportunities to explore and connect with nature as well as create deeper relationships with themselves, others and the world around them. This could look like doing anything from art classes outside to a month of backpacking or multi day rafting trips down the Colorado river. I currently live in Prescott Arizona in a little house surrounded by ponderosa pines, those are the ones with puzzle bark that smells like butterscotch. I have been running, gardening, accepting my fear of slacklining and attempting to do it anyways. I want to continue learning and traveling, working as a mentor, teacher and guide in the outdoors.
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Danny Davis
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Hannah Larrigan
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Hannah has been working with Fieldguides since spring of 2017. She has an Environmental Science degree from UC Santa Barbara and has since spent much of her time exploring the outdoors with students. She spent over a year in San Diego where she eradicated invasive species, restored native habitats (and developed a fierce loathing of wasps). Even though she loves to spend her time adventuring, she always returns to Fieldguides in the spring and is looking forward to another amazing season!
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