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About Us
Our Background
Founders Andrea Ellison Mulla and Julie Head, Tête Nord des Fours, 1987
International hiking trips for active travelers
Guided and self-guided walking journeys, planned with care
For nearly four decades, FieldHouse Adventures has specialized in guided hikes and self-guided hiking and walking trips along the world’s classic long-distance routes and in places of inspiring natural beauty
We build trips for travelers who want days on foot, simple logistics, and the kind of travel that feels earned. Our work is rooted in a belief we have carried from the beginning: walking is one of the best ways to truly know a place.
Today, FieldHouse Adventures continues this work as FieldHouse Adventures, carrying forward the same trips, the same approach, and the thoughtfully prepared journeys that have defined us for decades.
Our Background
Founded by two Outward Bound instructors
FieldHouse Adventures was founded in 1987 by Andrea Mulla and Julie Head, whose background in adventure-based outdoor leadership shaped the company from its earliest days.
Before creating FieldHouse Adventures, Andrea and Julie spent years working as Outward Bound instructors. They led sailing, hiking, canoeing, climbing, and expedition-based courses with a wide range of groups, from youth programs and women’s courses to teachers, military cadets, and corporate teams. They worked in challenging conditions, helping people learn how to travel well in the outdoors, solve problems together, and move through unfamiliar landscapes with confidence.
Then they discovered another kind of mountain rhythm.
After long, weather-beaten days on the trail or on the water, the experience of arriving at a mountain hut to a cold drink, a hot meal, and a warm bed was simple and unforgettable. The contrast between effort and comfort, between challenge and care, stayed with them.
That feeling still shapes how every FieldHouse Adventures trip is planned.
Since offering the Tour du Mont Blanc as a guided trip for the first time more than 30 years ago, the company has expanded to include walking journeys across multiple countries. Throughout that growth, Andrea and Julie intentionally chose to keep the company small, so they could remain close to the details, guide the routes they love, and continue developing new trips with the same care and curiosity that defined the early years.
Our trips are not Outward Bound courses. However, what Andrea and Julie learned through decades of outdoor leadership remains central: if we step away from the routines of everyday life and move at a pace more in tune with the natural world, even briefly, we tend to feel more alive, more energized, and more open to what a journey can offer.
Our Approach
Walking trips planned with simplicity, balance, and care.
The true beauty of walking in Europe and beyond remains remarkably intact. You can still carry what you need for the day, step out the door, and walk village to village, inn to inn, or hut to hut. You are rarely far from a footpath, a signpost, or a welcoming place to rest.
In planning both guided and self-guided trips, we are drawn to routes with natural continuity and meaning. Clear lines through a landscape. Routes with history, purpose, and a sense of progression, like walking from one coast of England to the other or from Mont Blanc toward the Mediterranean.
We work to maintain the integrity of each route by hiking as much of it as possible and using alternate transportation only when necessary, while still fitting the experience into a timeframe most people can manage.
We also understand the value of lingering. Some places invite you to stay put for a few nights, to explore on day hikes and return to the same accommodation each evening. Those choices are part of what makes a trip feel human.
Whether a journey is guided or self-guided, the goal is the same: a thoughtful walking experience built around simplicity and balance. We favor environmentally respectful travel that stays in tune with local traditions and customs and brings us closer to the heart of a place. Keeping groups small allows for flexibility, personal attention, and a lighter footprint.
Above all, our trips reflect a deep respect for the natural world, for its beauty and power, and for what it offers those willing to travel its contours slowly and simply.
Stewardship and the Next Chapter
A steady transition, rooted in care.
We cared deeply about finding a way for this work to continue without losing what made it special. FieldHouse allows us to do that, together.
Andrea Mulla & Julie Head
After nearly forty years of building FieldHouse Adventures, Andrea Mulla and Julie Head have been intentionally preparing the company for its next chapter. That next chapter continues under the name FieldHouse Adventures, with Andrea and Julie remaining closely involved. Their goal has been simple: to ensure the trips, relationships, and approach they built continue with the same integrity and care for many years to come.
Andrea and Julie remain actively involved, mentoring the team and staying closely connected to the work they love.
The name FieldHouse also carries a personal note. It reflects a partnership shaped by teamwork, preparation, and showing up ready, values that have guided Erin and Jenna long before they stepped into leadership here.
Erin Jackson and Jenna Luberto now support the company’s day-to-day operations behind the scenes under the guidance of Andrea and Julie. Erin has been part of the FieldHouse Adventures team for several years, working primarily in marketing and communications while learning the rhythms, relationships, and details that shape each season. Jenna brings a complementary background in hospitality, systems, and long-range planning, grounded in mountain communities and thoughtful travel.
Erin and Jenna’s role is stewardship, not reinvention. Their work focuses on supporting what already works, strengthening the underlying structure, and advancing the philosophy that has always defined FieldHouse Adventures.
The trips remain the same.
The approach remains the same.
The people behind the work remain deeply connected to it.
This is a passing of the torch, done with intention.
Our Guides and Office Staff
Experienced, prepared, and deeply human.
Over the decades, we have been fortunate to work with guides who bring strong roots in outdoor leadership and a deep love of walking travel. They are seasoned professionals, and in their lives beyond guiding, they are artists, educators, athletes, and working professionals. They share a commitment to safe, rewarding hiking experiences and a grounded, good-humored approach to life on the trail.
Our office team is small by design. When you contact us, you reach real people who care about your specific journey and bring firsthand understanding to the planning process. This allows for clarity, flexibility, and personal service before and during every trip.
The guides were confident, prepared, skilled, good-natured, friendly, funny, helpful, caring, upbeat, and so great to be around!
Ja-Ja Howe, Madison, WI
