Chris Magness

Chris’s early forays into the woods were on a borrowed mountain bike.  The shoes didn’t fit and he didn’t have a helmet.  Still, he was hooked, an adrenaline junkie was born and he instantly loved the smell of pine duff and its feel beneath his feet.

After completing a bachelor’s in English, Chris followed the Great Divide Route south on his mountain bike, pulling a trailer, border to border.  Major Appalachian Trail section hikes followed, then a move to New Hampshire.

Chris has continued to travel the United States in search of lesser visited places, scaling rock walls throughout the West and South.  He has established many dozens of new rock routes throughout the USA,  and has worked professionally as a mountain guide, across disciplines, since 2008 in the Northeast and Northwest.  He’s as comfortable on a desert tower as a glacier or a backwoods, scrappy New England crag, and if you’re with him, you’ll feel comfortable too.