Meredith Ogilby is a freelance photographer and author whose images have been published extensively. Her book, A Life Well Rooted, Women of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, won the 2000 Caroline Bancroft Award for the advancement of Colorado History. Meredith and her husband Chuck raised their two children, Molly and Kayo, in a one-hundred-year log homestead in Vail and on the Hell Roaring Ranch, just north of Redstone, Colorado.
Corinne Platt is a writer living in the old mining town of Ophir, Colorado. For many years she worked as an outdoor educator, as well an an English teacher at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado. She and her husband, Mark, an avalanche forecaster, spend much of their time in the San Juan Mountains, often with their young daughter, Sonja, in tow.