Juls Bray
Youth Instructor
While attending college at the University of Minnesota Duluth, she took her influence from wakeboarding to seek out another lifestyle inspiring sport and discovered mountain biking. She led mountain bike expeditions for the university, taking incoming freshmen on expeditions. In doing that, she discovered her love for instructing and leadership. She felt she had something to share and that she could connect people to the wilderness in meaningful ways. Through leading expeditions, she was introduced to the local youth mountain bike programs. She quickly integrated into the coaching community and coached the middle school and high school mountain bike teams for three years.
In 2019, she moved westward to Boulder, CO to lead mountain bike expeditions for Avid4Adventure. This involved taking middle schoolers out to the remote wilderness of Wyoming and Colorado to teach tactical camp skills, mountain bike skills, navigation skills, and emphasize the social-emotional connection in the wilderness.
For the last 4 years she’s been living in Salt Lake City. In the winters she teaches snowboarding at Snowbird. In the summers she teaches downhill mountain biking at various locations. It’s her mission to pass on passion and intention in the outdoor extreme sport lifestyle. She strives to promote emphasis on environmental awareness, community, and an outdoor stewardship mentality in her interactions with all students.
Juls grew up in the north woods of remote Wisconsin where she spent her time exploring the lush wilderness of the Midwest. For all of her childhood, the outdoors is where she found solace and deep connection with herself and the world around her. She spent her summer days recreating on all the rivers, lakes, and streams that Wisconsin has to offer. Her biggest passion on the water was wakeboarding. She spent countless hours behind the boat in countless different weather conditions receiving professional instruction and competing nationally. In the winters she was at the local ski hill every weekend snowboarding in any given weather condition, as long as there was snow on the ground, she was riding. Needless to say, Juls made the natural elements her playground.