Megan Michelson

Megan MichelsonFormerly an editor at Outside and Skiing magazines, Megan Michelson is now the freeskiing editor for ESPN.com and a freelance writer based in Tahoe City, California. She loves stories that explore the cross-section between unique characters and raw adventure and her aim is to live a life filled with as much exploration as possible. Megan is a skier, a runner, a mountain biker, a reader, a chai drinker, a listener, and a very bad knitter.

Ladies We Love: Nobody’s River Project

May 21st, 2013 • BY

Starting in June, four women will attempt to kayak thousands of miles through Mongolia on the Amur River. Their journey already has not been easy and it hasn’t even begun. […]

Ladies We Love: Action Sports Filmmaker Darcy Turenne

May 7th, 2013 • BY

For years, Canadian Darcy Turenne wandered the world as a professional freeride mountain biker. But when a serious ankle injury put the British Columbia-based rider out of commission for over […]

Ladies We Love: Hazel Findlay

April 22nd, 2013 • BY

Hazel Findlay grew up in the British city of Bristol, learning to rock climb with her father on the sea cliffs of South Wales. Now 24 and a professional trad climber, […]

Glen Plake: Disaster at 8,000 Meters

February 24th, 2013 • BY

Glen Plake on road tripping, ski mountaineering, and why he’s lucky to be alive. Just past 4 a.m. on Sept. 23, 2012, a massive avalanche hit Camp 3 on Nepal’s […]

Ladies We Love: Elyse Saugstad

January 19th, 2013 • BY

Photo: Heather Erson Saved by a Backpack: The only survivor of the deadly avalanche at Stevens Pass last February, pro skier Elyse Saugstad talks about life since that horrific day. […]