REI Outessa Summit: Kirkwood

With so much on our plates, there are times in our lives where we all get stuck in our daily rut and feel flat and out of steam.  This talk will wake you up and teach you the simple tools to be powered by passion in all areas of your life.  

With so much on our plates, there are times in our lives where we all get stuck in our daily rut and feel flat and out of steam.  This talk will wake you up and teach you the simple tools to be powered by passion in all areas of your life.  

The Hiking Secret: Finding Inner Strength

Karla set her mind to complete 52 Hikes in a year with her life partner Phillip. In the process, she overcame her limiting beliefs and they developed a strong bond through hiking. By sharing the Hiking Secrets they learned, they have helped thousands of people around the world to find their voice, and eventually their own inner strength. Experience what happens when individuals come together to create a community, with one goal in mind, to complete 52 hikes in a year.

In 2009, Toni Carey co-founded Black Girls RUN!, a national organization dedicated to encouraging and empowering minority women to live a healthy and active lifestyle. With more than 200,000 members across the country, Black Girls RUN! has transformed the lives of thousands of women across the world. She has been recognized as an important influencer in minority health, but not without setbacks and challenges along the way. Learn more about Black Girls RUN! and her journey to creating one of the most influential grassroots organizations in the country while on her own path to self-discovery. 

Chris Burkard is a twenty-nine-year-old travel, landscape, and adventure photographer who makes his home on California’s Central Coast. But if you are one of the more than 1.5 million who follow Chris on social media, you’d be excused for thinking that he was permanently on the road.Chris’ work has been published in National Geographic, The New Yorker, GQ, Men’s Journal, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, and Surfer Magazine, where is a staff photographer.Chris has also published or contributed to several books:The California Surf Project (2006); Plight of the Torpedo People (2012); Russia: The Outpost Vol. I (2013); Distant Shores (2013); and, most recently, High Tide: A Surf Odyssey (2015). Last year Chris was honored to speak at TED in Vancouver. The title of his talk: “The Joy of Surfing in Ice-Cold Water.”