1 His earliest childhood hiking memory was exploring Rock City on Mount Diablo with his family.

2 He met his wife, Jenny, in middle school.

3 When he was in college, he and some friends drove from Walnut Creek to Maine, camping every night along the way. “We had so much fun that the next summer, we drove from Walnut Creek to Alaska on an epic six-week road trip that spanned 8,000 miles,” he says. “That’s when I fell in love with backpacking.”

4 He and Jenny have three kids, and the two oldest share the same birthday, three years apart.

5 The freezer at the San Francisco AllTrails office is always full of frozen fun-sized chocolates.