🛶 Speaking Up on River Party Culture, Outdoor Assault + Sobriety: Run Coach and Midwife Acadia Gantz | See Her Outside Podcast

See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure · Oct 15, 2026 · 57m

Acadia Gantz is a midwife, running coach, and former river guide and ski patroller who lives, works, and plays in the western Maine mountains.

Content note: this episode includes discussion of sexual assault, alcohol use, disordered eating, and depression. Please take care while listening.

Acadia and Angie talked about:

Leaving Colorado State University to guide rivers and work ski patrol

How party culture gets baked into seasonal outdoor work

Being the only woman guide at her outpost, and the sexual assault by a senior guide the company protected

Self-medicating with alcohol, disordered…