I’m amping up the creativity and inspiration today with my guest Mischa Ostberg of East Mountain Designs.

Mischa was a language polymath, lapsed artist, and occasional car camper who thought that ‘backpacking’ meant ‘wearing a backpack on a day hike’ - fast forward barely 5 years, and today's Mischa is an avid climber and new Maine transplant who just completed a celebratory trans-Acadia hiking traverse, and is feeding all of our outdoor FOMO with the most amazing pieces of upcycled art on their Instagram feed, @east_mountain_designs.

And yet, Mischa didn’t understand why I’d ever want to talk to her for the podcast.
Like, really?!?

I think you’ll all agree that Mischa belongs on the pod (just like the rest of you do!)

Mischa really is the personification of one of their delicate line drawings - magnificent when viewed as a whole, but also comprised of all these minute but important details; the closer you look, the more interesting they get!

Lots of links with this one!:

• Mischa's amazing 'fish in a frame'!
• Schoodic Institute (ME)
• SPOT
• What is a SAT phone?
• What is celiac disease?
• What is a Heller myotomy?
• Good To-Go meals
• Uinta Mountains 
• Ashley National Forest
• Otter Cliffs (Acadia National Park, ME)
• Jackson Lab (ME)
• Dick Chasse
• What is an alewife?
• She Summits, Co - listen to my episode with Amanda Hatley of She Summits, Co. here!
• Acadia Outdoor Center
• Salt Pump Climbing
• Access Fund
• Scarpa Crux Approach Shoes

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