Allie grew up on the shores of Puget Sound, digging clams, chasing crabs, and making wild huckleberry pancakes. She started her career as an outdoor educator at age sixteen, as a summer camp counselor in beautiful western Washington. After graduating from the University of Montana, she took a NOLS course and sea kayaked and sailed around Vancouver Island, BC. 

Allie has worked as a trail crew leader, a tall ship restorer, wilderness therapy field staff, and a professional backpacking guide. A two-time NOLS intern, in Patagonia and the Southwest, Allie now leads 30 day backpacking expeditions and teaches Wilderness First Aid. In 2018, she finished her Master's degree at SUNY Cortland in Recreation Management and published the Adirondack Field Journal. 2019 saw an end to her decade of nomadic living, and she has spent the last three years hunkered down in the larch covered mountains of the northern Flathead Valley working for a local wilderness non-profit.

Her travels include crossing the Superstition Mountains on a solo backpacking trip during monsoon season and hitchhiking the length of the Baja Peninsula, from Cabo to San Diego. Her most recent adventure has been raising a goldendoodle puppy, Spatula, into a trail dog and all around good girl.

Allie is a natural history geek, wilderness educator, and community builder, whose art is inspired by the natural world. She is driven to help people better understand and appreciate the unique landscapes they love - as a local or a thoughtful visitor.