Rachel and Mitch met their sophomore year in biology class while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They were lab partners and immediately hit it off. Over the next few years they went their separate ways. It wasn’t until Covid struck that they reconnected over their love of rock climbing. At the time Rachel was living in LA and Mitch was in Chicago, they didn’t let the distance get in their way and they decided to give long distance a shot. After Rachel graduated, she moved in with Mitch in Chicago where they adopted the sweetest black lab mix that they named Summit. After a year and a half they decided to move together out west and start their next chapter in Colorado. On a weekend in the Rocky Mountain National park at an alpine lake, Mitch got down on his knee and asked the most important question of his life. Rachel said yes!