Heather Hansman

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.

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. See less