Joe (he/him, Prescott, AZ) began racing mountain bikes in 1992, and soon learned that chasing people around in neon spandex wasn’t as fun as pushing your bike uphill on chunky jeep roads and sleeping out under the stars. He took his first bikepacking trip around 1995 before the word “bikepacking” existed. Since then, he’s tackled routes in the Appalachians, the Rocky Mountains, the Southwest, and Alaska. Joe is an expert on public lands management and policy and has worked in the natural resources management field since the late 1990s as an educator, guide, trail builder, forester, ecologist, and conservation advocate. He has worked with the Center for Biological Diversity, The Wilderness Society, Resource Legacy Fund, Save the Dells, Arizona Wilderness Coalition, and numerous other advocacy groups.