Camina Conmigo

Miriam is the founder and a guía of Camina Conmigo. She started providing exercise classes in Spanish in 2018 here in Jackson. However, due to the 2020 pandemic it became virtual and she began to notice people started to become very worrisome and feeling down. At the climax of the pandemic, Norma, one of our other guias invited her to go hiking up Sheep Mountain. Miriam fell in love instantly and wanted to share this with her exercise group. She then started inviting more people to her hikes each time, and that is where Camina Conmigo began.

Norma arrived in Jackson at the age of 15 and attended Jackson Hole High School for a couple of years. After living in Jackson for many years, one day Norma got invited by a friend to go hiking up Snow King mountain. She didn't make it to the top. Her first hike ever was hard mentally and physically. But, this gave her a new devotion to hike all the way to the top of Snow King mountain the following year. The next year, Norma realized she loved hiking all the way to the top and continued doing this as a sport every summer.

Roney moved to Jackson with his wife Miriam, who is also the founder and guía for Camina Conmigo. They started their family here and now have two children who were born and raised in Jackson. Roney has always been an active soccer player, even playing professionally in Mexico’s soccer league. After playing for many years and dealing with a few injuries, he discovered hiking. He found this passion on a hike to ski lake with Miriam and Norma in 2020.

Mirella moved to Jackson with her husband Pedro, who is also one of our guias. For the first few years all they ever did was work two jobs and go home. After her second child started to attend CLC, she met Roney. He always invited there family to go on hiking trips with them. But, Mirella was always scared to go out and hike or go camping. One day, she finally decided to join them on one hike. That's when she realized there was more out there than just work and fear. Mirella is now thriving and is leading harder excursions than she would have ever imagined. She has never felt so secure of herself in leading outdoor activities with her family/participants.

Pedro moved to Jackson with his wife Mirella and their two children. Pedro got involved with his wife, Mirella, when Roney invited them to go hiking. He is one of our most fun guias to be around. Pedro has made it his goal to keep growing in this sport and nothing will stop him now from going out and exploring.

When Jose first got to Jackson, he didn't really know any of the places around because he used to only work and come back home. That was his routine for every day until he found out about Coombs and he decided to sign up his kid for skiing. A year later Coombs organized a ski program for parents that he decided to join, and since then he has been part of Coombs Outdoors and really likes the experience. When Maggie asked him to join Camina Conmigo in 2023, he thought he was going to be part of the program to explore and follow others. But then Maggie asked him if he wanted to be a guide and show others. He took the opportunity, trained to be a guide, and has now been a guide for over 10 months and really loves the experience. Through his time with Camina Conmigo, he has learned to love exploring new places and showing other people how fun and exciting nature is! He still has a lot of places to explore, and really hopes he can keep on finding places that feel magical and sharing them with other people.