The Women’s Outdoor Summit for Empowerment
Is this real life?, I asked, arriving at the 2017 Women’s Outdoor Summit for Empowerment. Sunlight streamed in through floor-length glass windows, the Golden Gate radiant in the background, without a...
View ArticleCoalition Snow Wants to Get More Women Out There, Shredding
There’s nothing fiercer than clambering up a steep scramble while rocking a skirt. Women can really rock it in the outdoors (Misadventures itself is proof enough of that). But the outdoor industry has...
View ArticleDiving with Dolphins in Kona, Hawai’i
The Beginning When I was ten years old, I was transfixed by a book at the town library: Madeleine L’Engle’s A Ring of Endless Light. The cover art, a watercolor of a young woman in a black racing...
View ArticleInterview: Mary Tilson, Traveling Yoga Instructor
As part of our ongoing series interviewing inspiring women, we spoke with Mary Tilson, a yoga instructor who uses Yoga Trade to expand her practice and her horizons.
View ArticleWomen of Pitchfest: Elevating Entrepreneurship
“Can you explain the revenue model?” “What percentage of your sales are from repeat customers?” “Do you see this as a lifestyle business or as having the potential to be a huge scalable company?” An...
View ArticleHomoclimbtastic: More Than A Great Name
nce a year, there’s a drag show at a small whitewater rafting outfit in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Cantrell Ultimate Rafting, which everyone just calls Cantrell’s, is a family-owned business that...
View ArticleNotes from Havana, Cuba
At the José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba there are no escalators. Passengers lug carry-on bags down stairs to their gate cursing the poorly air conditioned terminal, and the one...
View ArticleBirthday Bucket List
The big 3-0 is a huge milestone—at least for me it was. Although the idea of entering a new decade didn’t prompt a need to settle down and commit to a certain kind of lifestyle, the fact of the matter...
View ArticleColor Outside: Changing the Face of the Outdoor Industry
Nailah Blades Wylie started Color Outside “to help normalize the idea that women of all shades, shapes, sizes, and backgrounds are out there, enjoying all that nature has to offer us.” Color Outside,...
View ArticleStomaching the Swelter: SE Asia
ith an unsettling nausea looming in my stomach, masked by overall uneasiness, I hesitantly stepped out of the taxi—it being the sole comfort that I had holed up in for the past hour, sheepishly peering...
View ArticleWhy Kiteboarding Is For Girls
When I fronted up to my first kiteboarding lesson about ten years ago, there were two things on my mind. The first thing was: this could hurt, and the other was: where are all the girls? The first,...
View ArticleUrban Parks Series: Melanie Choukas-Bradley’s Year in Rock Creek Park
I knew I’d like Melanie. I’d read her book, A Year in Rock Creek Park, several months prior to meeting her when I was just beginning my Urban Parks Series for Misadventures. I was becoming increasingly...
View ArticleHave Two Weeks for the Outdoors We Love? A Challenge for Adventure Women
What can you do in two weeks? For the Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI), a nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, two weeks might just be enough time to better the world. Here are a few numbers...
View ArticleShe Ventures Events on the Horizon
Clear your plans because She Ventures is hitting the road this fall with stops in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and New York. They’re bringing together a tribe of female-founders, athletes, artists,...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: GILLIAN GROGAN
Gillian Grogan’s music is woven with intention, and imprinted with the places and people she’s come across in her travels. A self-described engineer, sustainability geek, musician, and human, she...
View ArticleCoyote’s Beauty Secrets
This story appears on the Out There podcast. Listen along: There’s a hard side to the trail that is dirty and damaging, and it brings out my wrinkles – and my vanity. I am exposed and vulnerable here,...
View ArticleWhat do you do for money? Annette Armstrong opened a yoga studio
The latest in the series… There was a period in my life when I went to multiple yoga classes a day. It was the September after I graduated college. My summer job had just ended, and I couldn’t begin my...
View ArticleThis Land is Our Land: Parks Projects Designs with Beloved Places in Mind
“Becoming emotionally and physically invested in our nations parks is the most effective way to implement park conservation. We energize citizens to take ownership of our public lands. That is the pure...
View ArticleThe Stretch Work
I had not heard of the term “stretch role” until my mother told me that her employer had given her one. Although I’m usually a supporter of experiential learning, I was somewhat suspicious of her new...
View ArticleA Weekend in the Woods Can Bring You Back to Life
Adventure trips and retreats can be life-altering experiences, whether you’re an experienced outdoorsperson or new to the world of outdoor adventure. DNK Presents, an outdoor adventure company based in...
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