Jonathan Ballesteros is the founder and CEO of Geyser Technologies. The company manufactures an innovative shower system that helps off the grid adventurers reduce their water consumption for cleaning themselves and their gear by up to 90 percent. But, Geyser is about far more than equipping adventurers. The company has set itself the lofty goal of changing how water is consumed and conserved in some of the world’s thirstiest places.

Inventor and entrepreneur Craig Payne is the founder of Hustle Bike Labs, a new company with a visionary solution to a dilemma facing any mountain biker. Whether to ride with flat pedals for safety, or "clipless" for better performance. Payne’s idea for new pedal may well make the question moot once and for all. Along his winding journey, he has been a rancher, and successful restauranteur. Now he just wants to make mountain biking safer and more accessible to anyone interested in hitting the trail.

Bryan Wickenhauser operates an up and coming outdoor music venue and event center in Gunnison, Colorado called the I Bar Ranch. Though the place got its start hosting a chuck wagon dinner and western show, it has graduated under Wickenhauser’s leadership to present a steady stream of great music across many genres.

Wickenhauser’s bio also includes a string of impressive accomplishments as an elite Ski Mountaineering racer — one of the most demanding endurance sports in existence.

Kathleen Curry is a former Colorado state legislator and former general manager of the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District. She is also a serial entrepreneur, currently the owner and operator of The Antique Ranch in Gunnison, Colorado. She helps her husband, Greg Peterson, manage the family ranch. Curry remains active in local and state politics, most recently helping to spearhead the creation of new statewide, bi-partisan redistricting commission that puts an end to Gerrymandering in Colorado

Kathleen Curry is a former Colorado state legislator and former general manager of the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District. She currently owns and operates The Antique Ranch in Gunnison, Colorado. She also helps her husband, Greg Peterson, manage the family ranch. If that weren’t enough, Curry remains active in local and state politics, most recently helping to spearhead the creation of new statewide, bi-partisan redistricting commission that puts an end to decades of Gerrymandering in Colorad

Chris Read is the Program Director of the Adaptive Sports Center in Crested Butte Colorado. A lifelong outdoor enthusiast, he got interested in physical therapy after his own knee injury sent him to the sidelines. Then as a student at the University of Utah he learned that recreation and therapy actually go hand in hand. Organizations like Adaptive are thriving, using outdoor adventure as a healing tool for people with limiting conditions of one kind or another.

Journalist and author Jonathan Thompson is a native of the San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado. He has spent his career writing about the land, culture and communities of the American West.

Thompson served as editor in chief of High Country News from 2007 to 2010, and is still a contributing editor at the publication. Thompson recently published a book called River of Lost Souls: The science, politics and greed behind the Gold King Mine disaster.

Journalist and author Jonathan Thompson is a native of the San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado. He has spent his career writing about the land, culture and communities of the American West.

He served as editor in chief of High Country News from 2007 to 2010, and is still a contributing editor at the publication. He recently published a book called River of Lost Souls: The science, politics and greed behind the Gold King Mine disaster.

After many years working in the affordable housing field, Willa Williford formed her own consultancy in 2006. The company's mission is to provide practical, expert solutions to housing problems across the mountain west.

On paper, at least, she works for governments, non-profits and private agencies to create innovative affordable housing developments. But she considers her real clients to be the families and others most in need of a place to call home.

Anne Hillerman is a veteran writer and journalist in her own right — but she's also the daughter of legendary crime fiction writer Tony Hillerman. He is best known for his immensely popular series of detective novels set in Navajo country in the desert southwest.

After her father's death in 2008, Anne decided the world should not be without Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee stories. She revived the series and is set to release her fifth title — The Tale Teller — in spring 2019.