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Amanda Jameson is a Colorado-based outdoor writer and advocate. She maintains the blog, Brown Girl on the NST, which documents her experiences as a black woman in the outdoors. In 2017-2018, Amanda traveled the country speaking/presenting at festivals and outdoor events as a Subaru Leave No Trace Traveling Master Trainer. Her work has been published in Griots Republic and Backpacker Magazine, where she was the 2016 Pacific Crest Trail traveling correspondent. She currently is the Vice President of the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West and works for a non-profit that seeks to diversify the outdoor industry. As an outdoor athlete, she has been profiled in Modern Hiker, and on The Trail Show and Sounds of the Trail podcasts. She was also a speaker on the panel “Where would we be without trails?” at the Outdoor Retailer Summer 2018 Trade Show. She holds a MA from Oxford University and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Naomi Hudetz is director of analytics and digital innovation and leads business strategy and revenue operations for Treeline Review. She brings decades of private sector experience in project management, budget and pricing projection, and long-term business vision, strategy, and goals.

Naomi left her corporate career to pursue her passion for the outdoors. She received the Triple Crown award for hiking for completing the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trail and has hiked numerous other distance routes including the Great Divide Trail across the Canadian Rockies (twice), Grand Enchantment Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail, the Arizona Trail, (most of) the Idaho Centennial Trail, the first known thru-hike of the Blue Mountains Trail, and the Oregon Desert Trail. She served as an executive board member of the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West and is based in White Salmon, Washington.

Amanda Jameson is a Colorado-based outdoor writer and advocate. She maintains the blog, Brown Girl on the NST, which documents her experiences as a black woman in the outdoors. In 2017-2018, Amanda traveled the country speaking/presenting at festivals and outdoor events as a Subaru Leave No Trace Traveling Master Trainer. Her work has been published in Griots Republic and Backpacker Magazine, where she was the 2016 Pacific Crest Trail traveling correspondent. She currently is the Vice President of the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West and works for a non-profit that seeks to diversify the outdoor industry. As an outdoor athlete, she has been profiled in Modern Hiker, and on The Trail Show and Sounds of the Trail podcasts. She was also a speaker on the panel “Where would we be without trails?” at the Outdoor Retailer Summer 2018 Trade Show. She holds a MA from Oxford University and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Naomi Hudetz is director of analytics and digital innovation and leads business strategy and revenue operations for Treeline Review. She brings decades of private sector experience in project management, budget and pricing projection, and long-term business vision, strategy, and goals.

Naomi left her corporate career to pursue her passion for the outdoors. She received the Triple Crown award for hiking for completing the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trail and has hiked numerous other distance routes including the Great Divide Trail across the Canadian Rockies (twice), Grand Enchantment Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail, the Arizona Trail, (most of) the Idaho Centennial Trail, the first known thru-hike of the Blue Mountains Trail, and the Oregon Desert Trail. She served as an executive board member of the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West and is based in White Salmon, Washington.

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Treeline Review: Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter Review

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August 28, 2025

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