About

Melissa McGibbon is an award-winning adventure travel journalist. She is the destinations editor at Powder Magazine and the chair of the Society of American Travel Writers Editors Council. She is also a member of the Adventure Travel Trade Association. She is a contributing editor at Hearst Publications and the senior editor at Outdoor Sports Guide Magazine. Her work appears in Travel + Leisure, The Points Guy, Outside Magazine, Lonely Planet, SKI Magazine, Powder Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Matador Network, The Salt Lake Tribune, Scuba Diving Magazine, and more.

Melissa has been to all seven continents, more than 50 countries, and most US states. Some of her favorite travel accomplishments include skiing in Antarctica, circumnavigating the globe by ship, meeting with Fidel Castro in Havana, BASE jumping in Idaho, paragliding in Switzerland, tracking whales and polar bears in Svalbard, flying over an erupting volcano and diving the Silfra Fissure in Iceland, downhill mountain biking in Peru, heli-skiing in France and Italy, diving with hammerhead sharks in the Galápagos and bull sharks in Fiji, and visiting 24 of the US National Parks.   

She is usually skiing, biking, climbing, practicing yoga, or diving—and is always pursuing adventure, travel, or some daring combination of the two.