Nick F.

“Nick grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago. He discovered the outdoors later in life on a backpacking trip during graduate school and was moved by the transferable lessons people can learn from working in small teams in adverse circumstances in remote locations.  After this powerful experience, Nick changed careers to support others in similar eye-opening opportunities in the mountains; first as a wilderness therapy guide in the Badlands of central Oregon, then as an outdoor educator in the Sierra Nevada range of California, and now as a backpacking and hiking guide for Wildland Trekking in Utah.  In his spare time, Nick loves to run, read, cook, watercolor, and play guitar.  Nick believes in the power of wilderness experiences to show folks of all backgrounds they can do more than they thought possible.”