About | Vagabond Expeditions

Meet our creative guides

Over the years, we've been privileged to welcome a diverse array of adventurous souls as our creative guides.

Elina Osborne

Elina, aka Tip Tap, is a skilled storyteller, an adventure filmmaker, and a dedicated hiker. She created an award-winning series that documented her thru-hiking journey on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Jeff Pelletier

Jeff is an ultra-distance trail runner and filmmaker. Together with his girlfriend Audrée Lafrenière, he travels around the world seeking adventure in the mountains, while documenting it all on his YouTube channel.

Billy Yang

Billy is an ultrarunner, filmmaker and podcaster living in Los Angeles, California. He is passionate about beautiful mountains, travel, food and building community.

Courtney Dauwalter

Courtney Dauwalter is one of the greatest ultrarunners of all time, dominating races like UTMB, Western States 100, and Moab 240 while often breaking course records. Known for her unmatched grit, positivity, and humble spirit, she inspires runners worldwide to embrace challenges, push beyond limits, and find joy in the journey.

Audrée Lafreniere

Audrée is an experienced trail runner with a particular affection for long distances. In recent years she successfully completed some very hard mountain races (TDS, Tot Dret and UTMB, just to name a few).

Kraig Adams

Kraig Adams is a filmmaker, hiker and minimalist living in New York City.

Nic Rakestraw

Nic, a.k.a Darwin on the Trail is a "Triple-Crown" Long Distance Hiker, filmmaker, and adventure Cyclist. He’s logged over 14K accumulative miles of Long-Distance Hiking (AT, PCT, CDT, etc.) and bike touring over the last 7 years.