Light Hearts and Heavy Packs
Lesli Brown is an adventurer and free spirit. Her love for the mountains came at an early age, thanks to vacations with her family. Lesli grew up in a rural  Missouri town and explored the woods surrounding their country home. She  attended college at the University of Missouri, Columbia and had opportunities for field study in Montana, Washington and California. With a bachelors degree in Natural Resources Management she continued down the path that would initially test her will and passion and eventually lead her to Yosemite National Park.Lesli has been an outdoor educator and leader to groups of all ages throughout her career. She has a passion for the outdoors and all that it entails, hiking hundreds of miles of trails to the heart of the Sierra Nevada and beyond. Her love for the wilderness, the mountains, the animals, flowers and waterfalls runs deep in her blood and her spirit is nurtured by the Sierra s natural rhythm.After exploring her passion and developing a better sense of confidence and self, Lesli decided to embark on the opportunity of a lifetime with friend and traveling companion, Eric Hawkins. They would spend nearly 5 months thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Lesli has always enjoyed writing but wanted to share her story with the world and hopefully entice them to go out into the woods and experience it all first hand, whether it be for a day, a week or longer.Thanks to Lesli s supporting family and friends she is living out a passion and has been blessed with so many opportunities. Lesli currently resides in Yosemite National Park, with her fiancé Eric. They plan to become Triple Crowners... someday!