Adin Leavitt

B.A. Creative Writing, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wilderness First Responder Certification

Adin grew up rambling through the wild mountains and thick forests around Bozeman, Montana, and exploring the imaginary worlds of books. This early life fostered a strong connection to the natural world and a deeply embedded sense of adventure.

At eighteen he moved to California to study Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In this time Adin became an organizer and performer with the spoken word collective Kinetic Poetics Project, and published a book of poetry and prose, It Still Rains in Imaginary Places. Living in Santa Cruz, Adin found that community became the deepest source of growth and abundance in his life, and this remains a guiding compass for him. After graduating Adin moved to Hanoi, Vietnam, where he lived for four years. During this time, he worked as an English teacher, college application consultant, copy writer, editor, voice actor, and fire performer. Becoming part of the off-road team for Namduro, a cross-country motorcycle adventure challenge, opened the world of guiding to Adin. He later co-founded the motorcycle tour business Lost Trails Vietnam, and spent the Covid years guiding off-road and on-road tours. After returning to Santa Cruz in late 2022, Adin worked as a naturalist and occasional program director for the Web of Life Field School, an ecology-based outdoor education camp, until joining Where There Be Dragons in August 2023.

Adin experiences the wilderness as a gift, a grace, a place of play and fierce demand. He engages with it through trekking, camping, surfing, snowboarding, dirt biking, and sitting in silent awe. Adin seeks to build resilient and compassionate communities, foster a culture of land stewardship, dismantle systems of exploitation, and tend radical joy as an antidote to existential dread. He is always looking for someone to share in an adventure.