About Melissa
Melissa McGibbon is an award-winning freelance adventure travel writer and the senior editor at Outdoor Sports Guide Magazine. She is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the Adventure Travel Trade Association. Melissa also writes for Outside, Backpacker, Elevation Outdoors, and TimeOut among others. Follow her adventures on her website.
Melissa McGibbon is an adventure travel writer and adrenaline junkie.
Some of her favorite travel experiences include circumnavigating the globe by ship, meeting Fidel Castro in Havana, BASE jumping in Idaho, skiing steep chutes in the Canadian Rockies, flying over an erupting volcano in Iceland, and downhill mountain biking in Peru.