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Evan | Store Manager

Evan has been with Paddy Pallin for 15yrs. As an ex-adventure guide, he’s led groups along Tasmania’s great bushwalks, through mainland Australia, up rock faces, and down rivers. Evan has many years of hiking and backpacking experience in more than 30 countries, with particular expertise in ‘big-pack’ extended multi-day bushwalking. However these days he prefers to spend his outdoor time kayaking, with his favourite recent trip being a 6-day paddle tour of Lake Pedder in South-West Tassie. Evan’s top tip for outdoor trips: take a vegetable peeler for your cheese – priceless!

Andy | Sales Assistant

Andy has an obsession with traversing the wild mountain ranges in lutruwita/Tasmania. He also appears to have a compulsion to undertake expeditions in really bad weather, as seen in his popular adventure documentary, “Winter on the Blade”. These days Andy spends more time on the shop floor than in the mountains, where he’s happy to share his accumulated knowledge of Tasmania’s wilderness with his customers. Andy’s areas of expertise include navigation, scrub wriggling, mud stomping, bike touring, adventure climbing and wilderness photography. He will recommend products that are functional, durable and lightweight. Andy tends to describe weight differences between products in terms of his standard unit of measurement: the weight of a block of chocolate.

Lauren | Sales Assistant

Lauren joined the Paddy's team in 2019 with 6 years of bushwalk guiding experience in Tasmania and in the West MacDonnell Ranges, NT. She gets very excited hearing about your upcoming hiking adventures and sharing her knowledge of the places she knows well - the Overland track, Freycinet National Park, and the Larapinta trail. She loves helping new hikers feel more comfortable in the outdoors and choosing the right gear for their upcoming trips.