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About Outforia

Your next adventure begins right here.

Our mission

Explore responsibly. Learn continuously. Leave things better than we found them.

Outforia exists to turn curiosity about the natural world into confident, well-cited knowledge, and to point readers back out the door, boots on.

How we got here

  1. 2019

    Outforia is founded. A small crew of writers starts the site, built on a shared love of the outdoors and a goal of giving people genuinely useful nature content.

  2. 2021

    Grows into a distributed editorial team: writers, editors, and contributors across North America and Europe.

  3. 2022

    Crosses 500,000 monthly readers. Outforia's research and viral campaigns get picked up by hundreds of mainstream outlets, from The New York Times to CNN.

  4. 2026

    Outforia 2.0 arrives: fully rebuilt on a modern platform. Faster, more responsive, and ready for the next stage.

What is Outforia?

A trusted friend for everyone drawn to the wild.

Outforia is a home for discovering the beautiful wildernesses of planet Earth and the many ways humans love to get out into them. We write with the goal of becoming a friend you can count on for straight, useful, well-researched answers, whether you are planning your first overnight or your hundredth.

The team

Twenty-nine people, one field guide

Outforia is written, edited, and reviewed by a distributed crew of guides, biologists, journalists, and full-time outdoors people.

  • Portrait of Carl J. Borg

    Carl J. Borg

    Editor-in-Chief

    Carl founded Outforia to build the outdoor-journalism resource he wished existed, with work referenced by The Washington Post, Forbes, and USA Today.

  • Portrait of Jhareyna Pagao

    Jhareyna Pagao

    Executive Editor

    Outforia's executive editor with seven-plus years as a writer and editor and two-plus years leading editorial teams across academic, marketing, and wildlife content.

  • Portrait of Patrick

    Patrick

    Rocketship Commander

    Patrick leads operations at Outforia, keeping projects aligned, deadlines met, and the wider team pointed at the next mission.

  • Portrait of Boni Satani

    Boni Satani

    Marketing Head

    Boni heads marketing at Outforia, shaping how the publication grows its audience of outdoor enthusiasts across channels and partnerships.

  • Portrait of Dipen Visavadia

    Dipen Visavadia

    Outreach Manager

    Dipen manages outreach and partnerships at Outforia, building relationships with collaborators, contributors, and the broader outdoor community.

  • Portrait of Fatima

    Fatima

    Viral Content Strategist

    Fatima is Outforia's viral content strategist, turning the team's outdoor expertise into stories that travel well across social platforms.

  • Portrait of Deejay

    Deejay

    Creative Content Magician

    Deejay produces creative content across Outforia, blending words and visuals to bring the team's outdoor stories to life.

  • Portrait of Anna

    Anna

    Creative Content Magician

    Anna builds creative content for Outforia, shaping visuals and copy that help readers connect with nature and the outdoors.

  • Portrait of Jennifer Schultz

    Jennifer Schultz

    Outdoor Guide & Contributor

    Professional outdoor guide and naturalist based in Northern Norway; holds a BSc in Outdoor Education and International Mountain Leader and Rock Instructor certifications.

  • Portrait of Gaby Pilson

    Gaby Pilson

    Outdoor Educator & Contributor

    Professional outdoor educator, polar guide, and wilderness-medicine instructor; holds a Master's in Outdoor Education from the University of Edinburgh and a Wilderness EMT certification.

  • Portrait of Alex Moore

    Alex Moore

    Content Contributor

    Full-time van dweller and outdoor writer covering hiking, camping, ornithology, and DIY camper-van conversions; holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri.

  • Portrait of Amanda Readman

    Amanda Readman

    Contributor

    Outdoor writer and educator with five years of experience in camping, survival, navigation, and rock climbing across mountain and forest environments worldwide.

  • Portrait of Amy Hayes

    Amy Hayes

    Freelance Writer

    Virginia-based outdoor enthusiast and freelance writer specializing in the environment, history, and law; holds a BA in History and English from Old Dominion University.

  • Portrait of Ann Briggs

    Ann Briggs

    Science Communicator & Contributor

    Full-time freelance writer covering travel, science, and the outdoors; holds a BSc in Conservation Biology and an MSc in Science Communication, and is a trained safari guide.

  • Portrait of Brennan Keifer

    Brennan Keifer

    Content Writer

    Content writer focused on herpetology, ornithology, and dendrology; holds a BA in English from Washington College and contributes with the Maryland Amphibian and Reptile Association.

  • Portrait of Carolyn McBride

    Carolyn McBride

    Content Writer

    Northern Ontario–based writer focused on self-sufficiency, wilderness skills, and gardening; owner and writer of the Brace Yourself newsletter.

  • Portrait of Dakotah Blanton

    Dakotah Blanton

    Content Writer

    Florida-based outdoorsman and writer; holds a Marine Biology degree from the University of West Florida and has spent more than a decade fishing the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Portrait of Daryll Dulay

    Daryll Dulay

    Writer & Contributor

    Content writer with five years of research and academic writing experience, plus editorial experience in manga, short-story anthologies, and light-novel publishing.

  • Portrait of Kathryn Clover

    Kathryn Clover

    Content Contributor

    Forager and bushcraft tutor teaching wild-food cookery and foraging through the Parks Trust and Hedgewitch Adventures since 2012.

  • Portrait of Kaylee Keech

    Kaylee Keech

    Freelance Writer

    Freelance writer covering wildlife and marine science; holds a BS in Biology and BA in Science Writing from Millersville University and volunteers at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center.

  • Portrait of Kendall Casey

    Kendall Casey

    Outdoor Adventure Writer

    Outdoor-adventure freelance writer covering kayaking, hiking, camping, backpacking, and bushcraft; belay-certified with five years of indoor rock-climbing instruction.

  • Portrait of Kylie Muir

    Kylie Muir

    Content Writer

    Content writer covering fishing and hunting; a licensed fishing captain with six years of professional angling experience in major East Coast billfish tournaments.

  • Portrait of Leah Markum

    Leah Markum

    Content Contributor

    Content contributor writing on hiking, botany, zoology, ecology, and physical geography; holds a BA in Biology from the University of Arkansas.

  • Portrait of Madalina Petre

    Madalina Petre

    Freelance Writer

    Full-time freelance writer based in Scotland covering wildlife, hiking, and the outdoors; holds a Bachelor's in Media and Information from the University of Amsterdam.

  • Portrait of Michelle M. VanGurp

    Michelle M. VanGurp

    Freelance Writer

    Freelance writer covering wildlife, botany, and camping; holds a BA in Creative Writing and Secondary English Education from Florida State University.

  • Portrait of Omayra Acevedo

    Omayra Acevedo

    Content Contributor

    Professional writer and photographer with fifteen-plus years of experience across travel content, magazine articles, blogs, and coffee-table books.

  • Portrait of Selena Rodriguez

    Selena Rodriguez

    Freelance Writer

    Colorado-based freelance writer covering sustainability and outdoor recreation with five-plus years' experience; holds a BA in Journalism from Colorado State University.

  • Portrait of Travis McKeehan

    Travis McKeehan

    Contributor

    Freelance writer covering hiking, camping, and outdoor photography; holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from the University of Evansville.

  • Portrait of Visala Kantamneni

    Visala Kantamneni

    Content Writer

    Senior content specialist, copywriter, editor, and SEO writer; served as a core strategist for the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos from 2014 to 2018.

Editorial standards

How we earn your trust

Our editorial team fact-checks every claim, cites primary sources wherever possible, and has high-stakes articles (medical, safety, identification) reviewed by credentialed field experts before publication.

We’re transparent about our use of AI. It may sometimes help us draft outlines and edit prose, but every piece is reviewed and approved by a human editor.

Affiliate partnerships never influence what we recommend. Sponsored content, when it appears, is labeled clearly.

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Shinrin-yoku

The quiet medicine of being outside.

The Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku (森林浴) translates as forest bathing. There is no exercise involved, not even bathing, just the act of being in the outdoors. Being in nature for mere hours a week benefits billions of humans in just as many different ways, from the meditative to the scientific.

“We can never have enough of nature.”

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Nature itself is the best physician.”

Hippocrates

Our origin

Born from a collective love of the wild.

Do you have a childhood tale connecting you eternally to nature’s energy? Maybe you spotted a bear and her cubs camping in the Rocky Mountains, stood at the foot of a glacial lake and felt its power beneath your feet, or just walked through your local woods amid birdsong so thick you could lay on it.

Outforia was created through a collective love for the wild, and a shared conviction that there should be one honest, well-researched place to celebrate it, learn from it, and help each other head back out the door.

Outforia's writing makes me want to lace up my boots and head outside.

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