About Gregg Treinish

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http://www.connectingthegems.org

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Gregg Treinish discovered his passion for the outdoors at the age of sixteen while on a backpacking trip in British Colombia. After earning a B.A in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, he has pursued that passion. Gregg has worked as a whitewater guide, a ski instructor, a field instructor, a senior field instructor, and as a team leader for wilderness therapy programs in Colorado and Montana. He has traveled to five continents and continues to explore our world. In 2004, he completed the 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail, and in 2008 the first ever trek of the Andes Mountain Range, which took more than 22 months and 7800 miles to complete. He was awarded the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award in November of 2008 for this accomplishment. After completing the trek in early 2008, Gregg began working as an assistant on a Pallid Sturgeon study on the Missouri River in Montana, and as a Spotted Owl researcher in California. Since, he has worked tracking lynx and wolverine in the Bridger Mountain Range, and the mountains near Helena, MT. He feels a deep desire not only to explore this planet, but also to document the impact that humans have had on it. He believes that there is a fundamental change that must occur in human thought, and that for too long we have treated the Earth as existing for people and for our benefit alone. Gregg will continue working to promote awareness and to enact change in this thinking. He is currently a student at Montana State University and is majoring in Ecology and Evolution; he will complete this degree prior to trip departure. Gregg also has a wilderness first responder medical certification as well as a Colorado whitewater guide certification.

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