Luca Pieretti

MEET LUCA

Luca grew up in the chaparral hills and right point breaks of Santa Barbara, California. She first came to the Sierra Nevada and Golden Trout Wilderness School (GTWS) as a Thacher School first-year student for orientation, and then, more formatively, later that year (2017) as a GTWS Range of Light Wilderness Immersion Program student. That profound experience not only helped Luca develop a range of wilderness and leadership skills, as well as the opportunity for deep self-reflection, but also left her with a deep reverence for the mountains and their creatures, and an unshakeable longing to return. 

Luca returned to GTWS in 2019 as a humble worker, and again in 2021. Since June 2022, she has spent her summers as the GTWS Manager and Packer: caring for and packing the donkeys, helping run GTWS, and backpacking and scrambling around the sublime Eastern Sierra. In the months in between her summer work, she earned her Wilderness First Responder certification, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with distinction from Colorado College, and was accepted into a PhD program in Social Psychology.

Beyond school and work, Luca is an avid runner and nature journal-er, and love to surf, read, write, hike, and create. She is eagerly looking forward to another awesome summer among the Foxtails, sharing her awe, curiosity, and deep gratitude for the natural world!