Out & Back with Alison Mariella Désir

Author, activist and runner Alison Mariella Désir explores our region

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Snowboarder Tina Blakey teaches Alison to carve lines down the slopes near Mount Rainier.

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Ebony Welborn and Savannah Smith guide Alison through the tidepools of Puget Sound.

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Self-taught mountaineer Cecil Sherwood takes Alison to climb a huge boulder at Little Si.

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PeiPei Sung, a mycology enthusiast, guides Alison deep into the North Bend forest.

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Out & Back

Hosted by: Alison Mariella Désir

• Feb 2, 2023

As a kid, Chelsea Murphy felt she didn’t belong outside. Now the Leavenworth-based founder of She Colors Nature is making sure her daughters do.

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• Jan 26, 2023

The founder of the Bronze Chapter has thrived in the outdoors all her life. She wants other people of color in the PNW to feel the same way.

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• Jan 19, 2023

The angler known as The Black Stonefly was raised in the city. But now he's on a mission to get more Black people into the outdoors.

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