Outdoor Diva Maureen Laskey
She is always on the go. Setting goals and going for it. She also happens to be my wife of 22 years and mother of two beautiful girls. Each day, responsibilities are "juggled" around her outdoor workout or adventure. It must be outdoors, year around. As a result of her positive influence, her girls have become NOLS grads and ballet dancers. She is a competitive road cyclist and avid rider, averaging three to four thousand miles a year. In competition, often humbling women half her age.
In winter, she cross country ski races and loves to backcountry ski. In college she was an All American who won the women's relay in the NJCAA Nordic National Ski Racing Championships. She hasn't looked back, using her ski racing skills; she floats up and down the backcountry trails. Her true love is still the mountains which she still finds time to climb, deep in the Adirondack Mountains. With her undying passion to be outside she has climbed the Adirondack 46 high peaks in summer and then climbed them all over again in winter, becoming one of the few women to accomplish such a feat. Her passion to go higher has led her to a successful summit of Mt. Rainer. A few years later, she summited Mt. Aconcagua, in Argentina at 22,842 feet. Maureen has accomplished all of this while being a mom, wife and an example. She continues to pursue her outdoor passions while balancing family, job, home and caring for a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease, continuing to give of her self.
Mountain Hardwear would be served well to have such a woman as their Diva. Maureen exemplifies what a love for outdoor adventure and an uncompromising demand for excellence can accomplish. She's already my Outdoor Diva, she could be yours.
Nominated By Timothy Laskey
