about
Photo: Rio Chantel
Writer \ Editor
Artist \ Athlete
Guide \ EDUCATOR
Past/Present Affiliations:
Managing Editor, Magic Canoe
Senior Editor, Outside & Trail Runner
Digital Strategist/Editor, Orion
Editor-In-Chief, Camas Environmental Magazine
Instructor, University of Montana, Oxford Academia, Wild Rockies Field Institute, Freeflow Institute
Senior Guide, Aspire Adventure Running
M.S. Environmental Studies, University of Montana (2016)
My writing, films, photography, and audio are featured in Orion, Outside Online, The Dark Mountain Project, Best American Poetry Blog, Juxtaprose, Terrain.org, Trail Runner, Whitefish Review, Montana Quarterly, Clackamas Review, Patagonia's The Dirtbag Diaries Podcast, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Camas, and others.
The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere, published by Milkweed Editions, will be available July 8, 2025. It’s about walking in circles. Learn more and pre-order at Milkweed, Bookshop, and Amazon.
The Way Around
July 8, 2025
“You can't read this book from left to right — instead you'll swirl through, dervish-like. Trust Nicholas Triolo — his gorgeous, clear-eyed words and hard-earned footfalls — with every hair on your head. He's done the good hard work here, stacking cairns along the trail's curvature, seeking direction from monks and poets. He's more than just following their lead, though. He slogs through mud, suffers blisters — but the whole route courses through atrium and ventricle. I'd follow this writer anywhere, for he's gone to the place where we began, where we can begin again. The Way Around is the rarest and truest kind of adventure tale: the kind that can reclaim us from our lost, all-too-linear selves.”
- Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal
Publications
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Films
“One. Long. Day.” September 2019. Wrote and narrated a short film for Montana’s most prestigious Sky Race, the Rut 50k in Big Sky, Montana.
Six Rivers Run. Spring 2017. Locations Manager/Fixer, US Leg #1. Multimedia Campaign following Mina Guli's attempt to run a marathon a day for six weeks, along six rivers around the world to raise awareness about global water crisis.
Photo: Kelvin Trautman
"Shaped by Fire." Summer 2016. Co-Director, Mountain Runner. Director/Producer: Bobby Jahrig. Best Conservation Film: 2017 International Wildlife Film Festival. Official Selection: Mountain Running Film Festival.
"The Musician." 2016. Salomon TV. Locations Assistant, Featured in film. Director/Produced: Dean Leslie (Wandering Fever) and Greg Fell (Fell and Co.)
"The Crossing." 2014. Writer, Director. A 70-mile protest run in resistance to open-pit gold mining in Southern Baja, Mexico. Official Selection for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Mountain Running Film Festival, Todos Santos International Film Festival, and featured on Patagonia’s Dirtbag Diaries.
"Discover Turkey." 2012. Co-Director for two short documentary films about high school intercultural exchange in Turkey.
Audio
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