Build Christian Community with a Kayak Trip
One of the best ways for women to build or grow Christian community is with a multi-day outdoor adventure like a kayak trip. Especially when more than one generation is …
Community
Authentic Christian community is essential for followers of Jesus. It’s life-giving. It’s hard. It’s needed for growth. For active outdoor women, the outdoors is an ideal environment to live out community with each other.
How Does God Speak to Us? How About Through Hiking Machu Picchu
For us outdoor lovers, God often speaks to us in and through our experiences in nature. That’s what Emilie O’Connor found this summer when she hiked to Machu Picchu. God …
The Joys of Multi-Generational Outdoor Adventure
Back in September my 26-year old daughter, Jamie, and her friend, Emilie, 28, started to plan a Boundary Waters canoe trip. Before I knew it, they invited me to go, …
A Multi-Generational Women’s Outdoor Retreat? Yes, Please!
Just over a month ago, 13 women joined me on a winter retreat in northern Minnesota. I was the oldest by at least 15 years (I’m 55). Most of them …
Laura Albert: At Home (and Work) Where the Buffalo Roam
Laura Albert, currently of Laramie, Wyoming, has worked in outdoor careers since before she graduated from college in 2008. She’s covered a lot of ground in the last 15 years …
How Tracy Blesi Turned Her Love for Adventure Travel into a Business
Tracy Blesi is the co-founder and owner of Women on the GrOw, a women’s adventure travel business based in Minneapolis. [JANUARY 2022 UPDATE: Unfortunately, Tracy had to close Women on …
Build Memories through Outdoor Travel and Recreation
Why are outdoor travel and recreation such awesome ways to build memories? Lasting memories are built from things that stand out in our minds. The natural world is so full …
How to Raise Our Girls to Love the Outdoors
How do we raise our kids—and specifically our girls—to love the outdoors as much as we do? It’s harder these days than it was when I was growing up. The …
“Go Into All the World” …Backpacking!
There are as many ways to fulfill the Great Commission as there are people who take on that command from Jesus. Backpacking is one of them! In 2017, my friend …
How to Plan an Epic Family Road Trip
Our family has gone on a few pretty epic road trips in our day, if I do say so myself! From our home state of Minnesota, we’ve taken our kids …