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Ali Kenney
Backpacker
|May 2018
WHAT’S YOUR FIRST OR MOST FAVORITE OUTDOOR MEMORY?
When I was a young kid, I was always outsideplaying games and sports. I grew up in themiddle of nowhere on a dead-end, dirt road inVermont. We spent every day outside. I had afoundation of wanting to be outside and a lovefor fresh air. Now, my wife and I bike commuteevery day, and we got into backpacking fouryears ago.Everyvacation, we go backpacking.That’s how we refresh. We don’t use watches orphones. We go by sunrise and sunset.
WHAT DROVE YOU TO SEEK ACAREER IN THE OUTDOOR INDUSTRY?
This story is from the May 2018 edition of Backpacker.
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