I have a bit of a reputation. I’m the teacher that does that thing with the heavy backpack. I’m also the coolest 6th grade teacher (as voted by my class every year), Knockout Champion, Dystopian genre expert, and unofficial 2nd floor bathroom monitor. All of those things give me a certain level of clout in …
Hands down, my all-time favorite bag is the GORUCK Echo. I had one of the first ones made and it’s been my go-to EDC and overnight bag ever since. I’ve always liked smaller backpacks that fit my frame and allow me to move like a ninja. Jason designed it for me to carry everything I …
I have a secret to confess: I started a GORUCK club for selfish reasons. There’s a perfectly good GORUCK club at GRHQ, only 4 miles from my home, and yet earlier this year I founded the GORUCK Mother Ruckers to serve my needs. And by needs I mean not getting into a car with my …
Mme. Dent at the Musée du Débarquement in Arromanches, 1999. I’m the daughter of a retired high school French teacher. Surprisingly, my mom is not French. In 1969, she fell in love with France while on a 6-week summer exchange program in Vichy, the spa city with a complicated past as a client state of …
Rucking 29 miles in the Colombian jungle in 29 hours. Over the years, I’ve taken a lot of trips and spent nearly a decade living in South America, Africa, and Europe. Jason has visited more continents and countries than me, though for shorter stints of time. And while we’ve traveled together plenty, our trip to …