Tinkerer, climber, engineer
Engineering alum and budding inventor Jessamy Taylor loves being outdoors, scaling heights, and solving problems. Among them: a better way to adaptive climb
By
Matt Crossman
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Published
Spring 2021
When Jessamy Taylor graduated from Johns Hopkins, her father, Brad, picked her up in Baltimore for a cross-country road trip back home to Oregon. They had an agreement, albeit unstated, that went like this: Jessamy, Engr '18, would accommodate stops to let Brad indulge his passion for trains, and Brad would accommodate stops to let Jessamy indulge her passion for bouldering and rock climbing.
Brad stayed off interstates as much as possible and also made occasional stops to dip his toes into bodies of water, a hobby he has pursued across a lifetime of travel. In covering more than 3,700 miles in a rented silver Toyota Camry, father and daughter listened to podcasts and audiobooks and belted out the Grateful Dead song "Ripple" as they approached Twin Lakes Reservoir in Colorado.