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See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure
Get inspired with lessons from adventure that can't be learned indoors. Hear stories of women with a passion for the outdoors, from everyday athletes to activists breaking societal barriers to nature. By pushing limits in the wild, these women discover that they're more capable than they first thought-- and you are, too. Our nonprofit programs and adventure scholarships increase access to adventure for girls & women+, so that you'll always See Her Outside. Hosted by Angie Lake. Brought to you…
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See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure💧 2,000 Mile Run in 120° Heat: Mina Guli on Water Activism, the Grand Canyon, and Turning an Adventure into $32 Million for the Colorado River
<p>The outfit you're wearing right now took more water to make than you'll drink before you turn 40. Mina Guli has spent a decade running to make that water…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🛶 Speaking Up on River Party Culture, Outdoor Assault + Sobriety: Run Coach and Midwife Acadia Gantz | See Her Outside Podcast
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…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure⛺ Psychological Safety + Democratizing Outdoor Access with Sally Steele of Outdoorithm | See Her Outside Podcast
Just because somebody is physically safe in the outdoors doesn't necessarily mean that they can access a sense of belonging. Sally Steele is co-founder and CEO…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🔥Surviving Capitalism in the Outdoor Industry: Jen Gurecki on 12 Years of Coalition Snow, Enoughness, and Building Far Out by Her Values
Jen started the first women-owned ski and snowboard brand in the universe, ran it for 12 years, and then closed it — and this conversation about what's…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure📢 How to Blend Your Adventure Passions and Advocacy with Alex Garcia
Although Puerto Rico is less than a four-hour flight from East Coast hubs like New York City and Washington, D.C., many continental Americans haven't…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🚲 Parenting Is Easier Outside: Mountain Biking Through Pregnancy + Building the Mothership Collective with Julie Bacon
If you've ever worried that becoming a parent means losing the adventurous parts of yourself, this conversation is the antidote: Julie mountain biked through…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🌲 What Makes a Fantastic Outdoor Leader: Resilience through a Rappelling Accident, NOLS Rejections, and Olympic Dreams with Jeannette Stawski
On day 21 of an instructor course in the Wind River Range, Jeannette Stawski's rope dislodged a 250-pound boulder. It landed on her legs — 15 miles from the…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure⛺ Campfire Stories from 70 Years Outdoors: Scout Wilkins on Idiot Badges, Animal Instincts, and Why Life Doesn't End at Any Age
Meet a lifelong outdoor guide who has kept adventure in her life for 70 years and counting. You'll hear 7 campfire stories about what the wilderness has taught…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureThe First Ukrainian Woman to Summit the Five Highest Mountains on Earth: What Mountaineer Antonina Samoilova Wants Women to Know About Fear
Antonina Samoilova's mountaineering career began with a breakup, two weeks' notice, and a one-way ticket to Antarctica. Antonina is the first Ukrainian woman…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🎤 Rachel Entrekin Live at Wild Woman Race Weekend (Bonus episode)
Ultrarunner Rachel Entrekin joined the First 50k Sisterhood and hundreds of other women running the Wild Woman Trail Runs races on June 19-21, 2026. We…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🏃♀️ Human-First Run Coaching, Fueling for Sport, and Why Trail Culture Needs Your Story with Zoë Rom
Our First 50k Sisterhood runners ran their first ultramarathon last weekend, and Coach Zoë was one of the folks who made it so successful. Zoë Rom is a…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure📖 Blending Mountains + Medicine into a Memoir: Tap Dancing on Everest with Grit Lit Featured Author Mimi Zieman
Mimi was a third-year medical student when she signed on as the sole medical officer and only woman on a four-climber expedition attempting the east face of…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🌲 How to Build a Sustainable Career in Seasonal Work with Sasha Clonts of Guide Theory
Seasonal workers know the feeling: You love the community, the adventure, the purpose, and then every fall you get laid off, change your address, and try to…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🛶 Paddling 1,400 Miles to the Arctic with Women She Met on FaceTime: First Documented All-Women's Crew on a Historic Voyageur Route with Helena Karlstrom
Hike Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon this October! Four women set off on a 1,380-mile paddle from Lake Superior to the Hudson Bay, and became the first…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🧗♀️ From Near-Death to Rock Climbing Again: Melissa Strong on Injury, Recovery Tools, and Writing a Memoir
The hands that built Melissa’s entire sport, business, and life were taken from her in an accidental instant. Her story explores what came next: the mental…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🎒Ultralight Backpacking Gear for People with Boobs: Building an Outdoor Industry Business with Sarah Berkeley of Symbiosis Gear
Have you ever chalked up gear discomfort to your body being the problem: the chafing, the shoulder pressure, the hip belt that just won't cinch down far…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🥾 FKT on Kilimanjaro: an Adventure Advocacy Project to Get More Women Outdoors with Ultrarunner Colleen MacDonald
When Colleen was a kid, her mom read her a story about a family stranded in a storm on Kilimanjaro. Most kids would have been scared. Colleen thought: “I have…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure⛏️ Building a Career in the Mountains on Her Own Terms: Guiding, Bodywork, and Moving through Trauma with Kat Schaumberg
Kat Schaumberg heard the conventional advice to prove her worth by climbing high mountains – but she ended up ditching the toxic culture to pursue true…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure⛺ How Girl Scout Camp Built a Career in Outdoor Leadership with Mary-Jane Strom
Grab the workbook: How to Use Your Adventure for Your Career Goals If you went to summer camp as a kid, you get it. The bats at dusk, the swim across the pond…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🏃♀️From Running as Punishment to the Grand Traverse: An Honest Story about Body Image and Outdoor Adventure with Emily Holland
Do you remember running sprints as punishment in soccer practice, or the stress of the dreaded PACER test? Many of us equate running with suffering. But that…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🏔️ Navigating Bipolar Disorder While Pursuing High Altitude Mountaineering Goals with Viv Serrano
Viv Serrano is a mountaineer who progressed from local trails to the summits of Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Rainier, and Hood—and she's just getting started. But…
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Athletes are Advocates to Speak Out Against Fascism in the USA: Tips for Speaking Up Even When It's Scary
The courage you use in your outdoor adventures is the same courage you can use to resist fascism. This is an unpolished but urgent bonus episode, in light of…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureWomen's Climbing, Imposter Syndrome + The Creative Process: Grit Lit Featured Author Lauren DeLaunay Miller
Ever put so much work into an adventure or creative project that you feel a bit sad when it's over? Lauren Delaunay Miller is the editor of "Valley of Giants…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureAging Adventurously, Raising Outdoorsy Kids, and Solo Backpacking with Paula Murray
Summit Scholarship applications close on Jan. 31, 2026 and The First 50k Sisterhood applications close on Jan. 10, 2026! Paula Murray didn't start backpacking…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure9 Tips to Run Your First Ultramarathon in 2026, and the First 50k Sisterhood Scholarship
First 50k Sisterhood applications open Dec. 27, 2025! Curious about running a trail ultramarathon? Host Angie Lake shares nine tips for running your first…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who Adventure🎥 Becoming an Adventure Filmmaker with Brittain Noel (and BTS of the Adventure Lens Grant)
Summit Scholarship applications open on Dec. 15, 2025! Here’s the story of one of our past recipients. Brittain Noel is a storyteller whose practice began in…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow We Built a 6,200-Member Women's Hiking Community: Lehigh Valley Women of Adventure
Dream about starting your own adventure club, community, or membership? Lehigh Valley Women of Adventure went from just a wild idea to a thriving community of…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureYour Guide to Hiking the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Training, Gear, Routes and More
We have just 3 spots left for our Grand Canyon team adventure in March 2026! Get a rare guided Rim to Rim hike, but with a Get Out, Give Back twist. Free…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureWhat It’s Like to Set Everest + Highpointing Records as a Teenager with Mountaineer Lucy Westlake
Lucy Westlake started mountaineering at 7 years old through a highpointing project. In 2021, she set the record as the youngest person to summit the highest…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureA Climbing Career to Lift Up Women: Countering Sexism, a 42-Day Arctic Expedition, and Building Athena Rock Climbing with Kelly Fields
You can join Trailtober TODAY and still get a chance to win trail shoes, electrolytes, gear patches and more – sign up now! 🍂 The mountains themselves might be…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow Writing a Memoir is Like a Long Distance Hike: Books and Setting Records with Heather Anderson
(Psst -- Win trail prizes during Trailtober: a trail challenge supporting gender equity in October! Learn more here.) Heather Anderson has hiked over 50,000…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow to Regulate Your Nervous System in Outdoor Adventure with Sarah Histand of Mind & Mountain
Sarah experienced anaphylactic shock while trekking in the Denali wilderness. Her nervous system regulation practices were an important part of healing – and…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureYou’re Allowed to Say It Out Loud: Overcoming the Urge to Self-Censor in Your Outdoor Storytelling
Have you been censoring yourself? 🤔 If you've ever softened your language, felt imposter syndrome, or kept quiet when you had a message screaming inside of…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureAn Honest Look at Power Dynamics in Outdoor Adventure Communities: Climbing Clubs, Mentorship, Assault, and Reciprocity
Carlie’s running the Oregon Cascades 100 mile ultramarathon on August 23, 2025! Cheer her on (you might get your name on her race shoes) by supporting her…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHiking with POTS, Book Publishing, and Self-Discovery on the Trail: Grit Lit Featured Author Christine Reed
How do you juggle chronic illness, unconventional work, and personal adventure challenges? Christine Reed, author of Alone in Wonderland, joined us to talk…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureYour Body Knows More Than Your Training Plan: Rachel Boim On Pain, FKTs, And Body Dysmorphia
You’re invited to our free Trail Talk on July 31: Injury Prevention in Outdoor Adventure with Rachel Lee Boim, DPT. Bring your questions about pain, strength…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureSummits Are Optional, Sisterhood Is Not: We’re Shifting Mountain Culture for Girls and Women
When 6 in 10 women struggle to name an outdoor female role model, how are girls supposed to know they belong in adventure spaces? Cheri and Aubryanna were two…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureField Notes: Surviving A Flash Flood in the Grand Canyon 🌊 (and Call for YOUR Stories!)
🎙️ Introducing: Field Notes, a series featuring your written and read stories. We're now accepting submissions from our community, and we’d love to feature…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow Urban Training and Creative Resource Sharing can Shape the Future of Outdoor Adventure: Rachel Fagiano's Story
Think you need alpine access, fancy gear, or a mountain town zip code to train for a major expedition? Think again. Rachel Fagiano is an avid hiker…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureWhat it Takes to Paddle 2,000 Miles to the Arctic with a Friend (and Write a Book About It!): Grit Lit Featured Author Natalie Warren
✨3 Adventure Opportunities: Join the June 100 Challenge! Combine outdoor movement with storytelling and giving back. We’re uniting 100 women to accept the…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow Women’s Hiking Communities Build a More Inclusive Outdoors with Gunjan of MyTrailPals
📢 RSVP for the free Trail Talk on May 28: Adventure Nutrition and Q+A | Sign up for the June 100 Challenge! 🎧 Gunjan Utreja is a first-generation Indian…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureThe World Needs to Hear YOUR Story: Here’s Why and How to Start
Storytelling is a key element in closing the gender gap, outdoors and in. But it’s not always easy to speak up! We’ve spoken lately with women who’ve said…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureProcessing Grief and Celebrating Women in the Wilderness: Carly's Mountaineering Story
Processing grief brought Carly to the mountains. Community gave her a reason to stay. Carly Dykes is a mountaineer, University of Washington student, and 2024…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureDNF's, Post-Race Blues, and Competition for Collaboration: Colleen's Ultrarunning Story
Is 2025 the year you shoot your shot and get out of your comfort zone? 💪 Colleen MacDonald is an ultra and trail runner specializing in the 50 mile and 100…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureSailing around the World, Parenthood, and Public Pushback with Author Caroline Van Hemert | 📖 Grit Lit Special Episode
✨ Order your Grit Lit adventure book club box by March 30th! Do you ever get pushback from others about your adventures? Caroline Van Hemert, author of The Sun…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureThe Journey to Build an Outdoor Business Centered on Fly Fishing and Mindfulness | Lindsay Kocka of Wade Well
Lindsay Kocka is a professional yoga instructor, natural movement coach, mobility specialist, meditation teacher and myofascial release practitioner. Lindsay…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow to Be an Advocate for your Community while Choosing Difficult Pursuits with Alex Garcia
Alex Garcia is an engineer, writer and outdoorswoman based partly in western North Carolina and partly in Puerto Rico, where she grew up. Alex’s ongoing…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureHow Danielle Blends Her Passions of Mountains and Medicine to Adventure for Good
When Danielle started rock climbing, she saw the need for increasing safe spaces for women and Latinas to be introduced to the sport. As a Ladies Climbing…
See Her Outside: Stories From Women Who AdventureNavigating Big Mountain Adventures with Chronic Illness: Isabelle's Story of an All-Women's Mt. Baker Climb
Isabelle Riddle is a Bozeman-based woman who spent over 75 days on wilderness adventures in 2023. In 2024, Isabelle was a recipient of the Summit Scholarship…
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We're Closing the Gender Gap by Amplifying Women's Outdoor Stories
Gender equity in outdoor adventure isn’t just a women’s issue—it’s something that benefits everyone, including men. Diverse perspectives drive better…