Emily PenningtonEmily Pennington is an adventurer, world traveler, and freelance writer. Apart from being a regular columnist at Outside magazine, she's had work published in the New York Times, The Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, and Bckpacker magazine, among others, as well on dozens of websites, including Lonely Planet, mindbodygreen, Adventure Journal, and REI Journal. Emily has also appeared on NPR and the podcasts Women Who Travel, Anxiously, The Outdoor Renaissance, Of Mountains and Men, and Tough Girl Podcast. Los Angeles is Emily's home base, but you can often find her sleeping in the dirt all over Sequoia, Yosemite, and the Eastern Sierra. Read More Read Less