Valley House Woodworking is based in Missoula, MT and run by long-time TREW customer Kelli Van Noppen. Outside of work, skiing is her first love and she grew up in the Cascades spending seasons at Crystal and Bachelor. Kelli tried many things before realizing that making with her hands was what she wanted to do! She loves working with stuff that otherwise would be thrown out. The environmental part is obvious, but she also likes seeing how color ways start crossing over and trying to figure out how to maximize the material to make the product do its intended job. There is a lot of problem solving in the process. It feels similar to figuring out things for the first time in the shop. She keeps busy with gravel riding, spending time in the wood shop, knitting, baking, walking the rows in her hoop house, and caring for a rotating menagerie of animals.