A good friend of mine started a great project highlighting diversity in the outdoors, specifically hiking, called Unlikely Hikers. What started as just a personal journey for Jenny Bruso, being an indoor kid and party girl who discovered hiking and the outdoors as an adult quickly became kind of a sensation. She had articles about her project in Portland Monthly and REI invited her to work with them on some projects. Seeing people of size, color, queer people and other "unlikely" people in the outdoors has been something that has resonated with a lot of people and is starting a very important conversation.
Today I just listened to her on the local NPR radio, OPB's Think Out Loud and tonight she will be featured on an OPB television show called Oregon Field Guide. I was a part of the filming of the on site portion of this show and interviewed for it as well. None of this guarantees that I will make it into the final cut but I'm hoping it will. And even if not I am super excited to see Jenny and the Unlikely Hikers profiled on this really awesome show about Oregon outdoors.
The show will be on tonight at 8:30pm on OPB, channel 10 in Portland and I imagine where it is on regular TV it's probably on the same channel because it probably doesn't air outside of Oregon? Like I said it's on network TV so any antenna or cable should be able to get it but if you don't have TV at all or would just rather watch it with others including those involved for the camraderie (or pizza) we're all meeting at the North Portland Lucky Lab (1700 N Killingsworth) tonight at 7:30.
Picture from OPB of our Unlikely Hiker hike in Silver Falls that they filmed.
