Nicole Qualtieri is a long-time freelance writer and editor, in addition to being a co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Westrn — an outdoor publication focused on long-form storytelling. Formerly the Hunt/Fish Editor at GearJunkie, Nicole has reviewed more than 500 products and logged over 8300 hours of testing in the process. She resides in rural Montana, where she tracks bugling elk with a bow in hand each fall, cross-country skis among moose all winter, hibernates like a grizzly through spring, pummels a pair of trail runners into summer dust, and trains her horses and dogs year-round.
Find her work in ϳԹ Magazine, USA Today, Men’s Journal, GearJunkie, MeatEater, Modern Huntsman, Backcountry Journal, EPIC Journal, ϳԹ Bozeman, and more.
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Just because you’re not a hunter doesn't mean you can’t take advantage of some of the best outdoor apparel technology in the industry
Two product testers square off on whether the politics surrounding outdoor equipment and apparel should guide consumers