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 Bob Berwyn and Leigh Wadden: Multimedia journalism team for environmental, travel assignments

WORLD CITIZEN

I’m a citizen of the world with a modest traveler’s resume, but the Colorado mountains are now my home base. I was born in Germany and lived there for more than 20 years. I traveled extensively, first with my family, later as a guitar-playing street musician, strumming Bob Dylan and Neil Young tunes on street corners from London to Lausanne.

I moved to the USA in 1981 with a rucksack, my guitar and $20 in my pocket. After hitchhiking and backpacking through the West for a year, I ended up working at the Point Montara Lighthouse HI Hostel near San Francisco. A few years later, I started an international hostel at Hilton Creek, near the eastern gateway to Yosemite National Park. There, I gained a whole new perspective on travel as the world came through my door and into my home.

My love for skiing and the mountains led me to journalism. Writing a popular weekly column on ski conditions and life at Mammoth Mountain, California, turned into a steady trickle of freelance assignments. I eventually landed a reporting job for a mountain-town newspaper, The Summit Daily News, in Colorado.

I’m a fierce advocate for the sport of skiing, and the preservation of mountain environments and culture. When I’m not writing, I spend my time skiing the slopes at Arapahoe Basin with son, Dylan, and traveling with my girlfriend, Leigh.

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Journalist Bob Berwyn shares a laugh with his girlfriend, Leigh,
during a backcountry ski trip to Francie’s Cabin, high in the Tenmile Range.