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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 spring will be Ursula’s third season with Fieldguides, and she could not be more excited to rejoin the Fieldguides team! Ursula studied Environmental Science and Forestry at UC Berkeley and works during the year as a field technician. She has a passion for forest ecology and a knack for finding hidden gems on the forest floor. 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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Jackson Halderman
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Jackson grew up in Santa Cruz but has spent most of his summers in the Trinity Alps, with several years spent leading children's backpacking trips there. He recently moved back to California after living in British Columbia for several years, where he attended the University of Victoria and graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology. One of his greatest passions is sharing wilderness experiences with others, whether it is guiding a group on a backpacking trip or going on a hike with friends. In his free time he loves to rock climb, backpack, or just spend time outside.
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Albin started as a group leader with Fieldguides in 2012. He has ten 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. |
Albin Nilsson
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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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Dara is from the San Francisco Bay Area and last year was 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 of being outdoors with others. Dara is currently attending Boston University studying political science, studying abroad at Trinity College Dublin. 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 loves bringing that passion to Fieldguides! |
Dara Noonan
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Cody O'Donnell
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Cody spends every summer (and some springs and falls) leading kids' backpacking trips around California, through Fieldguides and Camp Unalayee. He lives and works in Bend, Oregon, where he makes very quiet music, plays all manner of games, and enjoys Bend's many outdoors options. Cody loves how quickly the woods and mountains foster community, and he can't wait for the storytelling, misadventures, and growth the 2022 season will bring. |
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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 his joy in nature with the next generation. He earned a Bachelor's in Environmental Science from UC Davis, is a 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. |
Dion Shaughnessy
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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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Miro Andre
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]Miro Andre has spent several seasons working with Fieldguides and is an amazing naturalist and avid bird watcher. Miro has also worked as a camp counselor at Camp Unalayee, a backpacking camp in the Trinity Alps Wilderness, for almost five summers. Miro is grateful for both of these welcoming communities that have helped shape and inform his values. Miro believes it is an incredible privilege to work with and learn from the youth who come to play outside at Fieldguides. He is always amazed by the joy and change created together in such a small amount of time when folks disconnect from screens and connect with each other in nature. He looks forward to additional seasons filled with all manners of curiosity, wonder, play, and contemplation in some of his favorite habitats in California!
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Rose is from Humboldt County and this will be her third season with Fieldguides. Since age 12 she has spent her summers backpacking and loves leading youth on wilderness adventures. This year Rose also started working as a ski instructor, taking her skills in working with youth to the slopes! In her off time, 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. |
Rose Myers
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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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Owen worked with Fieldguides for the first time in 2020, leading backpacking trips in the Trinity Alps wilderness. He also spent three years counseling at Camp Unalayee and has plenty of experience hiking in the Trinitys, Russians, and Marble mountain wildernesses. Owen graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Environmental Science, Policy and Economics. He hopes to continue his studies and specialize in Marine Policy and Management. He is fascinated by the role policy plays in changing the world and is enthusiastic about a career where he can work along the interface between science and policy. When he's not hiking you can find him playing sports, the piano or getting himself distracted with a book- really any activity that makes him laugh and think.
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Owen Welch
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Owen Reiss
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Owen had a great summer on the staff of Fieldguides in 2020 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 her memories of childhood. In the summers, she got to explore the mountains and lakes of the Trinity Alps. She loves spending time in places where she can feel and be her wild self. For the past five years, she has balanced her time between Arizona and California, ocean and desert. She recently graduated from Prescott College, where she studied writing, dance and adventure education, with an emphasis in wilderness leadership. Professionally, her 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 be anything from art classes outside to a month of backpacking or multi day rafting trips down the Colorado river. She currently lives in Prescott Arizona in a little house surrounded by ponderosa pines, the ones with puzzle bark that smells like butterscotch. She enjoys running, gardening, accepting her fear of slacklining and attempting to do it anyways. She wants 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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Steph was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. When Steph went off to college, she worked at the UC Santa Cruz Recreation Department and occasionally went to class to work on her B.S. in Earth Science. After graduating, Steph filled most of her time working in the field of outdoor education and going on long adventures with friends. Steph continued to work for the UC Santa Cruz Recreation Department after graduating and went on to work for the Colorado Outward Bound School, the High Mountain Institute, and the Chadwick School. Steph's personal and professional adventures took her to natural spaces in the Rockies of Colorado, the Andes of Chilean Patagonia, the Sierra Nevada in California, the canyons of Utah, and several other desert areas of the southwestern United States. Currently, Steph is a math instructor at the Eagle Rock School in Estes Park, Colorado. When she's not teaching math or wrangling teenagers to go to class, she can most often be found running or climbing. When Steph isn't outside, she likes to do yoga, read, paint, bead and make good food with friends.
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