Zoey started Headwind Backcountry Medicine in 2024 after completing her Instructor Training Course with the Wilderness Medicine Training Center, International (WMTC). The main role of Headwind Backcountry Medicine is to provide wilderness medicine courses under the WMTC curriculum. Zoey specifically chose to train with and teach for WMTC because she believes it is the most robust, experiential, and effective curriculum available in wilderness medicine. She is currently based out of the Pacific Northwest in the Methow Valley of Washington, but teaches wilderness medicine around the west for WMTC.

Zoey has worked in the outdoor industry since 2015 as a leader, educator, trail builder, and rescuer. Some of her experience includes professional ski patroller at Brighton Resort, trail crew leader on Colorado 14ers, EMT with Zion National Park EMS/Search and Rescue, and field semester proctor with Westminster University.

Away from work, Zoey enjoys bikepacking, skiing, mountain biking, canyoneering, WhisperLite cheffing, and scrambling around in the mountains. Recently, she bikepacked 4,500 miles of Western Wildlands and the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. The name Headwind comes from the many, many miles of road she’s pedaled into strong winds on her bike. Even when the going gets tough, there is a way through.