Doaf Master was born in 1964, and grew up in Silicon Valley. From an early age, Doaf’s parents took the family backpacking and instilled in him a love of the outdoors. In addition to the backpacking, the whole family would go camping every summer for at least a week. We must have stayed at every national and state park in northern California. We often camped with our best friends the Callahan family. They were 5 kids and we were 3. We “escaped” our parents for hours on end, climbing trees, damming up the creek, playing “chase” in the campground, and learning about schist and other cool rocks from the local rangers, who always had time for us. Evenings were great for roasting marshmallows and attending those amazing campground programs – sometimes there would be slide show, or a live animal like an owl or snake, but the best part was the “frog pond”- everyone would chant a different word, and it was totally cool.