I began surfing this year. My husband and I drove from the United States to our current location in Uruguay; we have been traveling Central and South America for over a year. Prior to this journey, there were a few years when I dabbled in surfing. On average, I probably went in the water for …
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REI, one of the nation’s biggest outdoor retail companies, and the founder of the REI Foundation (mission: “to help ensure that tomorrow’s outdoor enthusiasts and conservation stewards reflect the diversity of America”) has awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant to the Outdoor Industries Women’s Coalition.
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Don’t most people just buy RVs to live in when they’re old anyhow? Can’t we just skip the whole house, white picket fence, dog and 2.5 kids part and get on with it? As far as I’m concerned, we’re ahead of the game.
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Did you know that 75% of women would like to be more active, but aren’t, because of “worries about being judged for being the wrong size, not fit enough and not skilled enough”? When UK government agency Sport England found that out, they launched a women’s fitness campaign called “This Girl Can.” Instead of impossibly-toned …
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Mckenzie Santiago, former bartender turned business owner, founded Brooklyn Grooming with Alfredo Ortiz in 2009 when she moved to Brooklyn. “The people there seemed like they were working towards something unique, which is what I wanted to do,” says Santiago. “I loved seeing men with beards and Brooklyn didn’t have a mens grooming line, so …
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In April 2014, Alexandra Kalita spent six days dog sledding through the Arctic tundra. A twenty-six-year-old New York City native who runs her own interior design business, Alex is an outdoors enthusiast but had no previous dog sledding experience. (I mean, how many of us do!?) She was, however, one of twenty lucky people from …
→Read MoreTalking Music with Jillian Speece of The Bergamot
Jillian is lead singer of the wife-husband duo band The Bergamot. She’s also a foodie, spiritualist, and maker of organic body care products that blogs on Shine On, Inc. I caught up with her to talk about everything from affirmations to auto-tune. [divider]The Interview[/divider] Tell me about your earliest experience with music. I was three …
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Emilie Cortes is a mountaineer, wilderness guide, motivational speaker, and Owner/President of Call of the Wild Adventures, Inc., an adventure travel company by women for women. [divider]The Interview[/divider] Tell us about Call of the Wild. Call of the Wild is a women’s only adventure travel company headquartered out of Bend, Oregon. We are unique in …
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Francoise Bosteels’ dolls often depict bleak, even gruesome tales of impoverished and abused women, men, and children. For instance, she’s made a doll of a woman beaten by her husband and of a boy digging through trash to find food. Most dolls she couples with a short story or poem. The dolls and writings are …
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Canyon Calling was created in 1996 so that active women, like you, could enjoy extraordinary adventures.
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Every morning in New Zealand I’d wake up, cocooned in my own little heat burrito, and want to snuggle as far into the puffy synthetic lining as I could.
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Christine Dennison is currently training for a North Pole endurance ski race sponsored by The Mamont Foundation, which promotes arctic awareness, education, and conservation. The event will be held from April 14-24, 2015 and will begin in Svalbard, Norway and move to the ice camp Barneo. There are four teams of five athletes who will …
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