Name: Carsten Jost
Company: Outward Bound Germany and Fastpacking.de
Title: Outdoor Education Program Manager
Country: Germany/Austria
Favorite outdoor activities:
Long-distance-hiking with tent (backpacking) using lightweight equipment. But as a dad of two children also a lot of family outdoor activities.
What’s your main contribution of being in the Jury do you think?
The variety of gear that I used and that I am interested in. My outdoor career started at age 6 with the boy scouts, led to a job in outdoor retail, followed me e.g. along the Pacific Crest Trail and brought me to managing outdoor programmes for Outward Bound. Gear is important but more so is the person using it.