As a life long resident of North West Montana, Isan Brant grew up attending Wolf hearings, performing skits with a youth-run wildlife advocacy group for state legislators, building Loon platforms and tracking the many large mammals that live in the Northern Rockies.  Graduating from the University of Montana with degrees in Painting and Wilderness Studies, Isan continues to use both her deep love of the land that surrounds and her pencils and her paints to raise awareness and forge alliances in hopes of preserving these last wild places.

Ryan Applegate has extensive backpacking and wilderness experience throughout the Western states.  These adventures led him to obtain dual degrees in Biology and Environmental studies from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania before moving to Missoula, Montana in 2001.  As Outdoor Recreation Specialist for the City of Missoula Ryan coordinated and ran the City’s climbing, team building, and summer camp programs.  In 2006 he earned an MBA in Sustainable Business Practices from Bainbridge Graduate Institute and currently is the Assistant Manager of the Patagonia Outlet in Dillon, Montana. 

Anna Mumford joins the team fresh off the campaign trail where she served as a deputy national press secretary for John Edwards. Anna, who earned her BA and MA from Stanford University, previously coordinated press and logistics for a 600-mile "Ride for Peace" bike tour through upstate New York and six years of experience working as a communications specialist for progressive labor unions.

Alex Applegate graduated with a degree in conservation from the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 2006.  He runs a retail greenhouse business near Madison, Wisconsin during the spring and summer months, and travels through the winter in search of mountains and snow. 

Teagan Hayes is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she studied biology and geography.  During her time at the UW she worked as a ranger at the UW arboretum, a conservation timepiece established by Aldo Leopold just off campus in Madison, WI. 

Cedar Brant was born in a barn. Later, she discovered electricity and indoor plumbing, but wasn't particularly impressed.  She spent the last slew of summers living in trailers in various rolling grasslands, counting and keying out plants, and harassing mammals for community ecology projects throughout Montana.  Her most exciting botanical find was the “paradoxical moonwort”.

 One winter when she was young, her house burned to the ground and she spent cold weeks picking through the charred and melted scraps of their belongings.  This experience fused the familiar and the transformed, the observed and the perceived.  She is still attempting these fusions in science and poetry.  For the past eight years she has worked from Banff, BC to Yellowstone National Park as a botanist and wildlife biologist.   She grows her garden at the toe of Black Mountain near Missoula.

This is Mark Sundeen's first bike, and first bike trip. Also, his first time in the Yukon. He makes a living writing books and stories, and worked for many years as a river guide and Outward Bound instructor. He lives in Missoula with his dog, Sadie.