Austin Ashcraft

Austin grew up attending summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains from the age of six well into adulthood, where he developed a great love for the outdoors and the transformational experiences that summer camps offer.

Austin has served as an educator and outdoor professional for over a decade in various capacities: as a counselor teaching whitewater canoeing and kayaking skills to campers, as a commercial class V whitewater raft guide, as a camp director, as a high school theology and philosophy teacher and football coach, as a youth minister, and as an outdoor high adventure trip guide, leading both foreign and domestic trips for high school and college students that involved backcountry skiing and backpacking, high altitude glaciated mountaineering, and service to local communities and people in need.