Author Bio

Jess Daddio

Jess Daddio is a multimedia storyteller—writer, photographer, videographer—and a former travel editor at Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine. Her work has appeared in Outdoor Retailer Magazine, Elevation Outdoors Magazine and the Matador Network. When she’s not on the road, she calls Virginia home. REI Co-op Member since 2011.

Stories by Jess Daddio...
Running At Every Age

Running At Every Age

Jess Daddio|
You can make up every excuse in the book not to go for a run. You’re too tired. You have too much to do. The weather stinks. You just don’t feel like it. But yo...
Kids skiing

REI Presents: Brotherhood of Skiing

Jess Daddio|
In 1973, when Art Clay and Ben Finley organized the first known gathering of Black skiers at an event in Aspen, Colorado, they couldn’t have known then that the...