Daphné Robichaud: travel guide

Daphné Robichaud is a 32-year-old outdoor travel leader who makes her living guiding hiking and biking trips across the world. (@thewanderingdaph)

Daphné spends her summers leading back-to-back adventures in places like Patagonia, Iceland, and the French Alps: solving problems on the fly, adapting to new groups every week, and spending long days on trail. We talk about what it’s like to build a life around seasonal work, the thrill and exhaustion of constantly resetting with new teams, and how she structures her year to maximize both income and time off.

Daphné breaks down the financial realities of trip leading: why she saves nearly 40% of her earnings despite an unpredictable schedule, how free housing ...