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Cole LeGree

Victoria,B.C.

Summary

Lifelong immersion in the outdoors as an athlete, coach, recreationalist, educator, student, and salesperson. Determined focus on the natural world's role as a mediator for relationships, growth, and social change. Fortunate to learn and play on the unceded lands of the Lekwungen & W̱SÁNEĆ people, and honored to contribute to my community with trails, education, and activism.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Equipment + Footwear Buyer, Store Culture

Robinson's Outdoor Store
11.2020 - Current
  • Oversight of equipment and footwear departments, including purchasing, training, merchandising, and sales.
  • Adapted quickly from pandemic buying (sourcing product wherever possible) to balanced inventory levels while maintaining strong vendor partnerships.
  • Facilitated innovative ways to expand into new markets with new product lines, government/NGO contracts, and community collaboration with NAUWELAK, Mill Bay Nature School, and various Outdoor Ed programs
  • Lead facilitator of staff training, including development of onboarding standards, sales techniques, product knowledge, and ensuring both new and veteran staff are confident and supported at Robinson's.
  • Collaborated with agency partners to ensure staff engagement by scheduling PK's, sourcing donations for an equipment library, and securing sales incentives.
  • Initiated off-site staff time for outdoor appreciation, including inclusive weekly trail runs and camp-stove cookouts.

Visual Holdings Technician

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
05.2018 - 05.2020
  • Digitized, handled, and exhibited photographic objects relevant to local history and mountain culture.
  • Self directed projects include digitizing the journals/scrapbooks of A.O Wheeler and other prominent ACC members.
  • Rehoused and digitized photographs of the first all-female ascent of Mt.Columbia, and prepared a digital exhibition from the museum's archive of hand-painted lantern slides.

Wildlife Guardian

Parks Canada
11.2017 - 09.2018
  • Extensively researched the ecology and history of Banff in order to co-develop and present enjoyable and crucial wildlife messaging to a wide array of park visitors.
  • Co-wrote and performed weekly interpretive theater to ~100 visitors of all ages in order to educate and solidify the importance of keeping the 'wild' in wildlife.
  • Also delivered impromptu point duties in public areas, often averaging over 300 educational contacts per day.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Art - Photography (Honors)

Toronto Metropolitan University
05.2020

Skills

  • Bicycle Touring
  • Backpacking
  • Mountain Biking
  • Trail Running
  • Fly Fishing
  • Skiing

Volunteer Experience

  • South Island Mountain Bike Society Rehab of old trails to maintain park status and make way for new trails. Adapting older trails to better suit the multi-use mandate and ecological guidelines of CRD parks.
  • Surfrider Foundation Various beach cleanups on Southern Vancouver Island, including French Beach, and the Gorge.Outdoors
  • Kludahk Outdoor Club (membership pending) Community led trail association with several huts built and maintained by members, but made accessible to the public. Contributions include trail pruning, benching, and restocking huts.
  • Royal BC Museum Data entry for plant cataloging, working with delicate plant samples on site, and remotely with annotated images. This scope of this particular project uses specimens from 1968-present, and is aimed at the accumulation of long-term data to illustrate the effects of climate change on Northwestern British Columbia.
  • Don Valley + Rouge River Cleanups Facilitated by Patagonia Toronto, Initially conducted for research towards my BFA Thesis titled Ground Truth, a photographic essay on Rouge Park, Canada's first and only Urban National Park.

Accomplishments

  • 2023: Lanna Kingdom 9 Day bicycle tour through Northern Thailand, both wild camping and arranging accommodation with locals via homestay, backyard camping, etc.
  • 2023: Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park. Starting from home ~150km of logging roads and rail trail from Victoria, and then hours of immersion in logging roads and associated trucks, industry, etc. Concluding with a camp amongst the most profound old growth ecosystems on the Island.
  • 2022: Nootka Trail trip lead. Logistics, transport, food, and company offered to a party of 6, for some of whom it was their first overnight trip.


Timeline

Equipment + Footwear Buyer, Store Culture

Robinson's Outdoor Store
11.2020 - Current

Visual Holdings Technician

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
05.2018 - 05.2020

Wildlife Guardian

Parks Canada
11.2017 - 09.2018

Bachelor of Fine Art - Photography (Honors)

Toronto Metropolitan University

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