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Grab Your Hot Saw and Show Them How It's Done
Alissa Wetherbee, Axe Women Loggers of Maine
Let’s show that women do this too… and that it’s a sport. We’re not wearing bikinis. The women are actually athletes on a team.
Reuse, Recycle, and Remember That Time You Didn’t Wreck Yourself
Mischa Ostberg, East Mountain Designs
This climbing gear has a life. Yeah, it saved your life. And it’s served its purpose initially. But everything that we use, we can repurpose.
Emphasize Organic Fun (and Don't Worry About the 'Game Plan')
Sabra Davison, Little Bellas
There are plenty of people with ideas. But it’s how that idea is fostered, and how what community you build is a defining part of your later success.
Listen to Your Body
Acadia Gantz, the ‘TrailRunningBabyCatcher’
There is such a need for information about running and pregnancy… really good, solid, not-scare-tactic information about running in pregnancy, about getting back to running post-partum, about what it’s like to be trying to raise a child and be a runner.
Take a Leap of Faith and Put it Out There
Hayley Diep, Author of If You Give a Girl a Bike
I was having the time of my life… and I thought to myself, if you give a girl a bike, she will ride and ride and ride. And that was the line that stuck in my head.
Be Your Own Advocate (and Someone Else’s Too)
Jenn Minery
Be willing to learn, but be willing to fail, and be okay with that.
Great Whites, 'That Other Kayak' Curriculum, and VHS Superstardom
Cathy Piffath, H2Outfitters
When people have that interest and they can gain those skills and see that comfort level and competence level go up, it’s just so gratifying.
Learn How to Read the Map (and Maybe Leave the Pearls at Home)
Laura Beebe, Sterling College
We’re all at our own stages of development, and have areas that we really excel in, and areas that we need to work on.
Hidden Hikes, Swimming Holes, Jean Shorts and Rosé
The Ladies Adventure Club of Maine
Tag along as Jen ‘Hidden Hikes’ with Gillian Schair, founder of LAC, and a bunch of other awesome ladies!
Find Something To Look Forward To
Paige Emerson, Chubby Hiker Reviews
The days I don’t want to leave my house or don’t want to get out of bed, I’m like ‘Ooh, but there’s this new mountain that I could go review’
You Are Capable of More (Than You Acknowledge to Yourself)
Rebecca Sperry, Socked In Hikes
I think one of the things I was most fearful of, besides the whole not wanting to die piece, was losing this major piece of who I was in my passion for hiking.
Live Mindfully (and Build Creatively!)
Jen Deraspe, Spirals of Wellbeing
I really wanted to test more conscious living. Like, ‘what do I need?’ versus ‘what do I want?’