Meet Northern Light's Technical Guide
Meet Zach Arregui Northern Light's Technical Guide What is your experience in the outdoors? Grew up canoeing and camping a lot and always loved being outside but started working in the outdoors at Indiana University while I was at school there. At IU Outdoor Adventures I learned the skills that I needed to be able to teach and lead others on trips. Backpacking, paddling and climbing were my favorite activities but I love pretty much anything if it's outside. After IU I also worked at a wilderness therapy boarding school in Oregon where we lived outdoors and practiced both the hard skills required for that lifestyle in addition to the interpersonal skills required to live together in a small community. While there we also went on many adventure trips that included climbing, backpacking, horseback riding and winter camping among other things. While I have switched to teaching in classrooms the last few years I still spend as much time as I can exploring a