Heather Hansman is an award-winning freelance writer and a former editor at both Powder and Skiing magazines. She's Outside magazine's environmental columnist and a contributing editor at Backcountry Magazine. Her work has been included in The Best American Essays 2015. She once won a bag of pasta in an Italian big-mountain-skiing contest (tenth place out of eleven women). She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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