We’re reporters, photographers and gear heads. We ride bikes in the summer, ski in the winter and hike, backpack, run and other things in between. We created element.ly because we wanted a site for people like us who have varied interests and love to be outside.

The Team

Jim Merithew

Jim has run award-winning photo departments at the SF Chronicle and WIRED. He is now Marketing Director at Kali Protectives. Motto: “Get after it.”
@tinyblackbox

Jakob Schiller

Jakob writes about gear and photography for OUTSIDE, and skiing and gear for Powder. He’s also a dad of some renown.
@jakobschiller

Keith Axline

Keith is the photo editor at Medium.com and a freelance developer. Formerly the editor of WIRED‘s photography blog, Raw File.
@kaxline