Stacy Bare is the director of Sierra Club Outdoors and co-founder of Veterans Expeditions, a nonprofit which empowers veterans to overcome challenges associated with military service through outdoor training and leadership. These challenges are not foreign to Stacy. After serving in Baghdad for the US Army, he faced post-traumatic stress and adjustment disorders. If it wasn’t for climbing and other experiences in the outdoors, he may not be here to talk to us about it.
If you and I meet each other in the middle of a national forest, that forest doesn't care about our backgrounds, our skin color, our religion, our sexual choices, our gender preferences, and our political preferences. If it rains, we're both going to get wet.
Gear Recommendations
The North FaceCinder Pack 55
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