Tess spent years guiding multi-day whitewater trips through the biggest wilderness areas in Idaho — the Middle Fork, the Main Salmon, the Selway. When she retired from guiding and took an office job, she realized she had no structure, no routine, and no one telling her what to do in the gym. She fixed that by joining SSC in May 2020, right when things reopened.
Five years later, she’s still at 6am. She came back after losing her dad and found that the gym was the one place that felt safe enough to just show up without having to explain anything. She also runs the Festival at Sandpoint, which means she knows a thing or two about making decisions in public and getting yelled at for them.
This is one of the quieter conversations in the library — and one of the most honest ones.
