Off the Radar talks to Eagle Creeks Stasia Raines

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Ever wonder about the people making the great gear you use when you’re hiking the Annapurna Circuit or cycling through Moab’s Canyonlands? They’re people like Stasia Raines of Eagle Creek, who just returned from a mixed adventure-volunteering trip through Thailand and Cambodia.

In addition to its efforts at creating more sustainable fabrics and equipment, Eagle Creek supports a number of philanthropic projects around the world, often discovered through the traveling adventures of their staff. Stasia visited a couple of projects when she mixed her recent dive holiday with a stint volunteering in a North Thailand orphanage and short visit to Cambodia.

In Cambodia Stasia visited PEPY, a volunteer-adventure tour operator featured in past editions of Off the Radar. And she says that in Thailand one of the best aspects about her time at the orphanage was talking with some of the older girls about to leave the system and enter college – “they’re debating things like, ‘Should I go back to my village?’ ‘Should I go to on to school?’ ‘If I go to school, what should I major in?’ – worries that are really so universal,” she says. “And now, they’re all my friends in Facebook!”

In the outdoor industry it’s not uncommon to discover people like Stasia, finding unusual ways to bring their personal interests and passions into the workplace. Both Off the Radar and ATTA are proud to have Eagle Creek as a lead sponsor. Thanks Stasia!

Off the Radar talks to Eagle Creeks Stasia Raines

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