The Pacific Coastal Range Expedition team consists of two members: Claire Porter and Nate Hegseth. Here is a little more about them….
While Claire has summitted few noteworthy peaks, she has spent most of her life with one foot in the wilderness. From her first backpacking trip in Colorado at the age of 5, she was in love with the mountains. She went on to explore the Bighorn, Wind River, Sawtooth ranges, with stops in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Rockies. Most recently, she spent a year and a half in Tanzania living in the bush and studying one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes on the planet. She also went to Harvard, which makes her one of those wicked smart kids. Now studying for a Masters in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Minnesota and getting her gear on working at the independent outdoor equipment retailer, Midwest Mountaineering, in Minneapolis.
Nate has been dreaming about this expedition since he was a young lad and is excited to get underway. He spent the past year as a trail crew leader in the Oregon wilderness with the Northwest Service Academy. While out west he hiked over 250 miles of the PCT, climbed numerous peaks in the Cascades, and did Wilderness Fire Rehabilitation with the Forest Service. Nate has also spent time backpacking in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Canada, and Minnesota. In his free time he loves to dabble in new technologies and read. He lives in Minneapolis and also works at Midwest Mountaineering.
