Steve Lemig

Steve Lemig is an outdoor athlete, environmental advocate, and father. He is the founder of Wilderdad.com, an online dad blog that shares instructional how-tos and stories to inspire families to enjoy the outdoors together. He has written for Sierra Club, Red Bull, Fatherly, Hike It Baby, and Colorado Parent. An avid outdoorsperson, Steve got a crash course in outdoor survival at age 19 as a Hotshot Wildland Firefighter where he spent days at a time in the wilderness fighting wild fires with little more than a shovel and what he could carry on his back. Since then, he has run the Pikes Peak Marathon four times, completed a 42-mile trail run across Grand Canyon, and finished a 1000-mile bike camping tour of the Pacific Coast. He lives at the edge of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado, where he camps, hikes, fly-fishes, bikes, and snowboards with his adventurous wife, daughter, and two rescue dogs.