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We are passionate adventurers, researchers, writers, photographers, educators, explorers, and doers. We love dreaming about adventures, planning adventures, and going on adventures. We spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about adventure, and helping others plan adventures.

AID-ing (Access, Inclusion, and Diversity) Adventure

Aid – To assist someone in the achievement of something.

Adventure Nerds exists to help others achieve their adventure goals and increase access to adventure for all. We welcome everyone who loves adventure and is ready to lift others up with stories, inspiration, and resources that motivate all people to be curious and choose adventure.

If you don’t see enough people like you represented in the adventure community, we need you. You might be the key to unlocking adventure for someone like you. For those who already feel welcome and supported, let’s share the adventure.

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Full Time Positions

There are no full time positions available at the moment.

Other Opportunities

Do you have skills that might help Adventure Nerds support more people choosing adventure? Let’s start a conversation.

Freelance Outdoor Adventure Writer Jobs

Do you like adventure? Do you enjoy researching and planning multi-day adventures? Do you like to help others find new adventures? Have you ever dreamed of getting paid to write about your adventures?

Learn more about our outdoor adventure writer opportunities.

We are building a library of hyper-specific mini guidebooks for multi-day adventures. Choose your favorite adventure or an adventure your friends can’t stop asking about, and submit a pitch. We primarily publish guidebooks for human-powered multi-day backcountry adventures. Example adventures for Guide Notes include backpacking, bikepacking, canyoneering, mountaineering, paddling, ski touring, or multi-sport adventures. Tent camping and hut-to-hut trips of all skill levels are welcome. Exceptional vehicle-based overlanding routes and surf adventures will also be considered.

What Makes A Good Guidebook Proposal?

  1. We haven’t published a similar guidebook.
  2. The proposal is for a specific outdoor adventure that is a minimum of two days and changes locations at least once. Guide Notes are not regional guidebooks or a list of day trips.
  3. Guide Notes help other people deeply understand the considerations for planning a specific adventure. Our goal is not to tell other people what to do. We strive to provide everyone with the information they need to plan a unique adventure, including a holistic understanding of options and choices for customizing the adventure to fit their needs.
  4. The adventure should be repeatable. We’re not looking for stories about your sufferfest. Ideally, you have completed the adventure once, and it was so great that you want to do it again. Or maybe you’ve completed a similar adventure multiple times.
  5. Other people are interested in a similar adventure.
  6. There isn’t reliable, accurate, detailed, and easily accessible information available.

Author Application

Follow the link to access the Author Application form and pitch your idea for Guide Notes.

Author Application

Submit your proposal for Guide Notes

Get Paid To Write About Adventures

Adventure Nerds approaches online publishing a little differently. We are more like a collective or a co-op. Instead of only being paid for a writing assignment, Adventure Nerds pays writers per assignment and a share of the revenue from book sales.

If you only want to write Guide Notes to help share information with the adventure community, that’s great. Adventure Nerds will donate the advance and royalties to a local non-profit or an adventure fund to support other adventurers.

How It Works

The 10 Steps To Publishing Your Adventure Guide Notes

STEP 1 – Complete the Author Application form.


STEP 2 – We will review your proposal and make sure it meets our goals and doesn’t conflict with any existing Guide Notes or Guide Notes in progress. We will let you know as soon as possible if your proposal is accepted or needs modification.


STEP 3 – Next, we will schedule a short onboarding conversation to review the proposal, discuss expectations, contracts, and timelines.


STEP 4 – After you sign the contract, we will send you detailed instructions and an outline for your Guide Notes. Then, you get to start writing!


STEP 5 – Submit your writing, photos, and illustrations for review.


STEP 6 – An Adventure Nerds editor will review your project and provide feedback.


STEP 7 – Adventure Nerds will finalize the project and send you an advance.


STEP 8 – We will format the book for publication, and we may have additional questions or edits during the formatting process.


STEP 9 – Adventure Nerds publishes your Guide Notes.


STEP 10 – Finally, we get to share your Guides Notes with the world.

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