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A good outdoor influencer isn’t hard to find, all of whom take (and provide us with) gorgeous photos of the landscape and the world around us, as well as take time to share with us the news on what’s really happening right now on our planet. We have here your top 10 outdoor influencers to follow right now to see and experience the world around you.
1. Pete McBride
- Instagram @pedromcbride
- YouTube: Pete McBride
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McBride, our first outdoor influencer, is a professional photographer and filmmaker for National Geographic where he explores the wilderness capturing everything he can find. He is an Emmy-Nominated Director for his documentary “Into The Canyon” detailing his 750 mile trip across the Grand Canyon. His work is less landscape-based, and instead focuses on animals of the land around him.
2. Caroline Gleich
- Instagram @carolinegleich
- YouTube: Caroline Gleich
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Gleich is a professional skier and marathon runner from Park City, Utah who focuses on environmental activism. She has a podcast called “The Caroline Gleich Show” where she speaks about storytelling and ways that we can help the planet. She also works at Big Mountain Dreams, a non-profit organization that helps other outdoor influencers and activists to succeed online. Gleich’s content is mainly focused on activism and skiing.
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3. Meghan Young
- Instagram @missmeghanyoung
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Young is a professional photographer based in Seattle where she also writes stories about outdoor adventure and places in the wild. She also is a co-founder at PNW Outdoor Women, where she teaches outdoor skills in clinics. Aside from photography, she also paints with watercolors and writes haikus. Young’s content mainly features far away mountains with bright sunsets and ethereal natural occurrences.
4. Bradley Castañeda
- Instagram @bradleycastaneda
- YouTube: Bradley Castaneda
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Castaneda is a professional photographer that focuses on “capturing light and color” within his images. He works both in color in black and white capturing his adventures around the world, landscapes he finds, Montana views, automotive images, and photos centered on Jeeps. He is from the Pacific Northwest and enjoys traveling around Mount Rainier.
5. Faith E. Briggs
- Instagram @faithevebee
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Briggs is a creative producer who focuses on storytelling in diverse communities. She is based in Portland, Oregon where she works to advocate for our planet and the environment. She has previously worked for Discovery Channel looking at environmental documentaries, Columbia Sportswear as the Director of Toughness on one of their projects, and is now working on short films. Briggs has produced 3 short films: “Brotherhood of Skiing”, “This Land”, and “We Hike to Heal”, all based on helping the environment.
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6. Tim Kemple
- Instagram @timkemple
- YouTube: Camp4Collective
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Kemple is our next outdoor influencer, both a professional photographer and the director of Camp4Collective, a production company that focuses on wilderness and the outdoors. He has produced 3 movies: Mountain, Distance, and The Movement and has received nominations in the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Edited Sport Series/Anthology. Kemple’s work looks at people and placing them into the wilderness around us all.
7. Lindsey Richter
- Instagram @ladiesallride
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Richter is a professional mountain biker who travels around the world to host mountain biking clinics for other women. She has also previously been on the popular TV show Survivor. Richter’s content focuses on empowering women to do what they want, as well as encouraging them to give mountain biking a try.
8. Forest Woodward
- Instagram @forestwoodward
- YouTube: Forest Woodward
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Woodward is a professional photographer, surfer, and climber as well as film director. He has created 9 films since 2015 and continues to work with journals and other wilderness companies to promote the outdoors. His work focuses on the effects of nature and features natural storms and animals in the wild.
9. Rach Stewart
- Instagram @rachstewartnz
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Stewart is a professional landscape and travel photographer from New Zealand. She also runs a blog post about travel and photography to help others explore all the great places she’s been to as well. Her content features lots of long exposure landscape photos with beautiful colors and beautiful backgrounds.
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10. Brianna Madia
- Instagram @briannamadia
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Madia is our last outdoor influencer, a storyteller and adventurer who spends her time out in the desert with her dogs and her van. Her content is always bright and orange featuring jaw-dropping views and of course always her dogs. Madia is also never afraid to keep it real in her posts and is currently writing a memoir about her life.
Honorable Mentions
Here are our next 5 outdoor influencer honorable mentions to check out as well!
| Influencer | |
|---|---|
| Daniel Ernst | @daniel_ernst |
| Tom Jünemann | @tom_juenemann |
| Sabrina Majnek | @berosa_gogreen |
| Travis Burke | @travisburkephotography |
| James Forrest | @jamesmichaelforrest |
Happy adventuring!
