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[01 YVON CHOUINARD ] Yvon Chouinard was born in Lewiston, ME, in 1938, and raised in Southern California. As a teen he taught himself how to climb, surf, skin dive—and blacksmith. By the early 1970’s when he founded Patagonia, Chouinard Equipment pitons, carabineers and ice axes had become the world standard. In the late 1980s, he instituted Patagonia’s earth tax, pledging one percent of sales to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. In the 1990s, Chouinard encouraged Patagonia to reduce the environmental footprint of its products and activities, beginning with a 100 percent switch from conventional to organic cotton and the introduction of fleece clothing made from recycled polyester. He cofounded the Fair Labor Association, One Percent for the Planet, the Textile Exchange, the Conservation Alliance and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. Chouinard continues to surf and flyfish. He is the author or coauthor of Climbing Ice, Let My People Go Surfing, The Responsible Company and Simple Fly Fishing. [02 TRAVIS RUMMEL ] Hailing from New Jersey, Travis Rummel creates films about topics such as salmon conservation in Alaska, flyfishing in Kamchatka and unshackling rivers from dams in the lower 48. After graduating from Colorado College, Travis found his way into the guiding ladder at Telluride Outside and began to learn his way around a camera by working as a photographer at the Telluride Daily Planet newspaper, where he met Ben Knight. They cofounded Felt Soul Media in 2005 with the completion of their first short film The Hatch. Ben and Travis made FSM a full-time gig when they embarked on production of their award-winning film Red Gold in 2007 and followed up with Damnation in 2014. Travis currently resides in Denver with his wife Melissa and their 9-month-old daughter, Emerson. He changes a lot more diapers than flies these days. [03 JOHN GIERACH ] John Gierach is the author of 19 books, including Trout Bum; Sex, Death and Fly-Fishing; No Shortage of Good Days and All Fishermen are Liars. His essays have recently appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, Stonefly and Fly Rod & Reel, where he has been a columnist and editor at large since 1992. He is the recipient of the Arnold Gingrich Angling Heritage Award, the Roderick Haig-Brown Award and the PEN New England Cerulli Award for Excellence in Sports Writing. He was inducted into the Fly-Fishing Hall of Fame at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in 2015. Gierach lives and works in Larimer County in northern Colorado. His latest book, A Fly Rod of Your Own, will be published by Simon & Schuster in April of 2017. [04 NATHANIEL RIVERHORSE NAKADATE ] Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate is a Texas native and veteran staff assignment writer for Surfing Magazine. He has spent the majority of his life chasing waves around the world, playing guitar, hiking into mountains and rivers for trout, and traversing coastal marshes for redfish out of skiffs and canoes. His work has been featured in magazines such as Fretboard Journal, Surfer’s Journal, Surfer Magazine, Vintage Guitar Magazine, American Angler and many others. He was a guest reader for a Writers on the Fly event in Bellingham, WA and is currently working on a flyfishing memoir. [05 AUSTIN TRAYSER ] Austin Trayser was born in the suburbs of Chicago but raised by the mountains and rivers of southwest Montana. While attending the University of Montana, Austin began traveling and creating fishing films like Carpland, Chanos Chanos and Turning Points North with Off The Grid Studios. These days Austin spends his time guiding in Chilean Patagonia and Bozeman, MT. Austin’s work has appeared in American Angler, The Drake, Outside Bozeman and Outlaw Magazine as well as commercial photo work for brands such as Orvis, Duckworth and Brixton.
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