My name is Kristen, and I'm a girl on a mission to change the way women experience life in their bodies. I grew up struggling with different eating disorders and a hateful relationship with my body. I found healing and acceptance through my time spent outdoors. My...
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Tanya the New Zealand Hut Warden
"Every season up to 5,000 trampers pass through the Mid-Caples Hut on New Zealand's Greenstone-Caples Track. The lucky ones have met Tanya the Hut Warden, who revels in her duties out in the wilderness, but especially in sharing her passion for the outdoors and...
Photo Journal: An Icelandic View
Iceland. The entire country exceeded my expectations. Everywhere you turn is one incredibly beautiful landscape after the other. At one point I was exhausted from the scenery overload. All the gorgeous and diverse views were laid out before me as I drove the Ring...
Melissa Arnot Explains Hiking Everest Without Supplemental Oxygen
"Nature is the quietest, loud place" Melissa Arnot is a professional mountaineer. She is definitely a heavy charger and works hard to get to her goals. She has climbed Everest multiple times but needed to get one more in. She conquered her fears and made it to the...
Venturous Voices: THE RISE OF THE OUTDOORSY FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR
REI is stepping up and helping to lead the charge of women's empowerment in the outdoors. They say it best with their new slogan for female adventures "A Force of Nature". Here they partner with She Explores, our current obsession for their Podcasts hosted by Gale...
Lonesome Crowded West
It floated on westerly winds, a beckoning. A tidal flow that swelled towards me, encompassing me, pulling me back with it. The quintessence of wild and free, of the art behind beauty and the love that binds it all; the desert. With the mountains in Colorado covered in...