ATHLETE TEAM
We train our mind like we train our body.
Mountain Mind Project believes that insights from sport can benefit the world, and that deep relationship to self, others and the natural world is essential for mental health.
OUR AMBASSADORS
The team consists of athletes who are:
raising awareness of the importance of training the mind and mental health
integrating insights from sport into benefiting others/community
integrating insights from sport into protecting the environment and climate activism
Raheim Robinson
Raheim Robinson is a creative director, producer, and climber born and based in New York City. He is the founder of Black Tape Creative, an award winning Black-owned creative studio. He is the host of Venturing Out: Park 2 Park and One Wrd Pod which allows a space to talk about differences, listen, and recognize how similar we actually are, all while focusing on just one single word. Spending more than a decade in fashion marketing and branding, and outdoor brand consulting, he uses his diverse expertise and knowledge to push the outdoor industry to create safe spaces for black and brown youth in underserved communities throughout New York City.
Caitlin Yong
Caitlin Yong is the founder of Backcountry Together (BT). As a Splitboarder, former Professional Downhill Longboarder, and Transportation Engineer, she is working towards becoming an AIARE Instructor. Initially community building in the downhill longboarding scene, Caitlin now runs BT to lower the barrier to entry for backcountry skiing and splitboarding for individuals who identify as black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) by creating inclusive and safe spaces to introduce backcountry skiing and splitboarding. You can find Caitlin splitboarding before work or on the weekends – or at the sauna or a sushi buffet. She is all about having a balanced life.
Connor Ryan
Hau mitakuye pi, my name is Connor Ryan. I am Lakota. I am a skier. My ancestors are Indigenous stewards of this continent: warriors, hunters, artists, medicine men and women; those whose life and knowledge came from the land itself. We see this world as an intimately intricate hoop of life, no parts separate, all of it related. I ski because in the midst of a powder turn, or atop a peak, I find myself at the center of this web, present in a single moment, connected to all life around me, and plugged into a limitless source of knowledge, healing, and inspiration.
Caroline Gleich
Caroline Gleich is a professional ski mountaineer, endurance athlete and activist for the environment and equality. She’s been on the cover of every major ski magazine, in award winning films, and has summited some of the highest peaks in the world including Everest/Chomolungma and Cho Oyu. She is the first woman to have skied all the lines in “The Chuting Gallery”. She’s testified to the House and the Senate about how climate change is affecting snowsports. Her goal is to inspire people to get outside, live a healthy active lifestyle and protect the places we love to play.
Conrad Anker
Conrad Anker is a climber’s climber, at home on a faraway alpine wall or the sparkling ice of his home canyon, Hyalite, located in the Gallatin Range of southwestern Montana. Conrad has been pushing the limits of mountaineering for the last 30 years, evolving into one of America’s best alpinists. In Conrad’s words: We do not just measure greatness by the peaks that we climb, or the heights that we reach, but rather by the positive impact that we create for ourselves, our communities, and our planet. Our goodness to each other is what makes us whole, and what endures for generations beyond our physical feats & achievements.
Hadley Hammer
Professional skier Hadley Hammer excels in a variety of settings: the rugged terrain of her home mountain Jackson Hole, skiing’s silver screen, a ski mountaineering expedition, a big-mountain competition start gate or a high-end wine cellar. Hadley spent two consecutive years on the Freeride World Tour and then in 2016 she made her on-screen debut in the Teton Gravity Research film “Tight Loose”. She’s since pushed her skiing in the backcountry of British Columbia, Bolivia, Alaska, Svalbard and the Alps, training and planning remote expeditions to ski beautiful lines around the world and uses the written word to tell those stories.
Moleek Busby
Moleek Busby is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His career in trail work started with the California Conservation Corps. After college and music projects in Chico, CA, Moleek returned to conservation, working nine years for the Student Conservation Association and moving up the ranks. As the Field Operations Senior Manager for the Washington Trails Association, he has oversight of the trail maintenance risk management information system. Moleek is also on the Wilderness Risk Management steering committee and the North West Outward Bounds safety committee. When he is not making public lands safe for Washingtonians, Moleek enjoys creating music, hiking, backpacking, kayaking, archery, car "glamping" and getting some trail work in. He is a life-long advocate for marginalized people to have ownership in their space and to feel safe volunteering and recreating on public lands.
Megan Davin
Megan Davin is a PR professional and creative outdoorist motivated by a desire to deeply connect with and learn from nature. Her dedication to pursuing as much time outside as possible (riding bikes, skiing, gardening, and running in the mountains) is fueled by a need to understand, appreciate, and protect the places we play. One of her biggest accomplishments is mountain biking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. She runs The Mountain Outpost, whose mission is to help people see how they can move mindfully through nature and connect to the natural environment every day. Specializing in creating a culture of people who love nature and want to learn, connect, and improve their everyday lives, Megan is committed to a life outside full of responsible adventures.
We Train our mind like we train our body.
Join Mountain Mind Project in destigmatizing mental health and making mind training a norm within the outdoor industry.
We aim to make meditation programs as common as basic avalanche and first aid education, focusing on performance benefits while providing preventative medicine for accidents, trauma and life's load.
Do you identify as an athlete, and believe in our mission to reclaim the health in mental health through deep relationship to self, others, and the natural world? Let’s talk about joining our athlete team.
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