Team Bios
Erin Trail
Activities: Run, Swim, Bike, Ski, Camp
Erin Trail’s hobby is collecting hobbies. She’s a 5th Generation Coloradan and grew up exploring the outdoors on family camping trips and hikes. Her first backpacking trip was at eight years old to Grizzly Reservoir – she proudly carried all of her own gear those 3 miles from the main parking lot to the Reservoir.
Erin is an adult-onset athlete who started as a Masters Swimmer and then developed into a triathlete. She has completed 5 Ironman races and nearly 20 x 70.3 distance Ironman races, including the World Championship in Lahti, Finland, in 2023. In 2025, she raced for Team USA in Pontevedra, Spain for the World Triathlon Cross Tri World Championship. She placed 9th in her age group and was the 1st American woman in her age group.
Somewhere along her triathlon journey, she picked up a deep love of cycling. Cycling encouraged her to see landscapes in a new way, learn new skills and to develop self reliance; now she often goes and does Type 2 rides just to see if she can do it. She’s got all the bikes: gravel, mountain, fat bike, time trial and road.
She is even known to combine her love of camping and cycling and go off on solo 24 hour overnight bikepacking trips in the mountains of Colorado. In addition to bikes, she teaches yoga, lifts weights, skis, SUPs and has recently purchased a campervan.
Erin is a former Montana park ranger with a degree in environmental engineering. She loves getting into technical details while putting her gear (and herself) through the paces. She shares her home in Colorado with her husband, Will, and her 3 cats (Zipper, Brewtus, and Simcoe).
Fall and winter 2025 will bring Erin to the “Adventure Side”, with many camping, vanlife, bikepacking, and mountain bike rides. Once the snow flies, she can be found resort skiing, fat biking, and triathlon training (inside and outside).
In 2026 Erin won the National Championship in her Age Group for the USA Triathlon Cross Tri. In 2027, she will represent Team USA at the World Championship Cross Triathlon in Edmonton, Canada. She’ll also save lots of room for adventure time with her friends and husband.
When not adventuring, she can be found on a sunny patio somewhere, drinking beers with her husband.
Will Trail
Will grew up in Idaho as a fifth-generation Idahoan, where he got into the outdoors early through biking, sports, and working on the family ranch. He went to Montana Tech, played football a few years, and spent summers working as a wildland firefighter. After graduating with a degree in Geophysical Engineering, he and his future wife, Erin, moved to Texas. There, he continued weightlifting and got more into mountain biking, camping, and working on cars.
In 2011, Will and Erin moved to Colorado to be closer to the mountains and family. They now live in the Denver metro area with their three cats. Will works as a Data Analyst in telecommunications and spends his free time mountain biking, hiking, running, camping, and occasionally snowboarding.
With more than 15 years of mountain biking experience, Will mostly rides trail and XC, along with some enduro and bike park. He occasionally competes in XC and enduro races and has hands-on experience with related gear, including bikes, components, clothing, packs, tools, and accessories.
As a reviewer, Will focuses on how products work in the real world, including their durability, performance and value. His reviews cover MTB, hiking, running, camping, automotive, and tool-related products, based on his experience as an active outdoor enthusiast and hands-on user.
When he’s not on the trails, Will works on cars, takes on home projects, and enjoys other hands-on hobbies. He’s also an avid homebrewer and serves as president of a local homebrewing club, where he enjoys experimenting with brewing equipment and techniques.