Hike It Off Magazine Issue Eight

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ALPINE PARROT'S ROOTS:

CREATING OUTDOOR CLOTHING THAT ENCOURAGES AND CELEBRATES UNDERREPRESENTED PEOPLE IN THE OUTDOORS by Raquel Vélez

I never really considered myself an “outdoorsy” person. For one, I didn’t grow up loving the outdoors. For another, I never really saw people who looked like me talking about how

great it is to be outside all the time. While all the kids my age played tag and hunted for bugs, my elementary school self preferred to be inside, living vicariously through


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