rugged outdoors women+ write

Blood Sweat Tears is a collection of short stories from 26 women+ hikers and runners about the experience of being in a female body on...

For the end of the year, I asked the Rugged Outdoors Women+ Write group to contemplate celebration. I've never been much of a celebrator,...

Last year I decided to attempt setting an FKT (fastest known time) on the Ouachita Trail. The beginning of that journey was the end of my...

I used to tell concerned parents, questioners, and fearful hikers that I would never go into the "capital W Wilderness" alone, to assuage...

Everyone wants to find metaphors in the seasons, to twist the passage of time to make meaning of life. The cycles of growth and decay, as...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." -- Closing Time by Semisonic Dusk v. Dawn by Christine Reed I’ve always been...