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Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan manages the women’s shells category for Outside from her home base of Missoula, Montana. Over her 12 years of testing and reviewing technical jackets, she’s been driven out of Washington’s Enchantments by freezing rain, hopped across Colombia’s squishy páramo landscape, and got engaged in a downpour at Glacier National Park.