Andy Cochrane

As the son of two park rangers, Andy built a lot of forts as a kid. After a liberal arts undergrad, he moved to the Bay Area, earned an Design Strategy MBA and worked in tech for five years. A mid-twenties-life-crisis drove some questionable decisions, including the next five years and 200,000 miles living out of his Toyota Tacoma. He landed in Bend, Oregon, where he still lives with his partner. He works as a freelance writer, producer and adventure photographer, and contributes to the New York Times, Guardian, Forbes, Wired, and Outside, but his best scribbles are unpublished notes to his beloved dog, Zero. You can find him on Instagram here.