Erin is a writer, scientist, and a compulsive adventurer. She’s lived in Alaska for a decade and walked about 8,000 miles of it, much of that with her two young kids. Her latest book is Mud Flats and Fish Camps: 800 Miles around Alaska’s Cook Inlet. Bretwood is a geologist, data scientist, and wilderness adventurer. He grew up in Seldovia, and loved it enough to move back, where he helps run 501c3 nonprofit Ground Truth Trekking, and works for Nuka Research and Planning.