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REI Staff

The editorial staff REI Co-op is a team of passionate editors, writers and producers. We’re dedicated to covering the outdoors: the people who inspire you, the issues and events impacting our community, the skills and gear you need for your next adventure, and the places you want to go. Learn more about our editorial guiding principles.

Stories by REI Staff...
Great Cairn Hut Day Planning

Shared Solitude at Great Cairn Hut

Christina Lustenberger, Angela Percival, Forrest Coots and Eric Hjorleifson spent a week at Ben Ferris (Great Cairn) Hut in the Selkirks of British Columbia. Wa...
Desert Dawg

On the Trail with Desert Dawg

The outdoors have never been so accessible with technology, used to plan and track every last detail of a trip. After reading Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitair...
ironwoman

Ali the Ironwoman

Follow along with REI member Ali from Decatur, Alabama, as she describes why she loves training. "Exercise is a real meditative state."...
Founders of "Black Girls Run"

Meet the Founders of Black Girls RUN!

REI members Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks created Black Girls RUN! to help tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the African-American community, and to provide s...
junior ranger

Evan the Junior Ranger

Warning: There's a whole lot of cuteness here. Watch five-year-old and REI member Evan explore the wonders of Rocky Mountain National Park with his dad and e...