You Don't Have to Know Everything to Start Upland Hunting
You don't need the perfect shotgun, the perfect dog, or a hunting family behind you. A look at how HerUpland helps new women hunters start simple and find community.
10/22/20267 min read
Tag: empowering
Survival Isn't the Same as Living: 37 Days Alone in the Wilderness
The outdoors never asked Rose Anna Moore to be anyone but herself. From testing her resilience on Season 8 of the hit series Alone to helping women and children find their own place in the wild through her non-profit This Is My Quest; she’s turning that sense of belonging into a mission.
Survival of the Fittest - Or Most Prepared
A Tennessee winter storm, a half-stocked woodpile, and a hard lesson on why preparedness isn't optional.
Women and Fly Fishing Through the Ages: A More Complete Picture Emerges
A collector's keepsake print hints at a forgotten history: women have been fly fishing, tying flies, and setting records for as long as anyone's kept track.
Naked and Afish
A mayfly hatch, a stubborn fly box, and a half-naked wade into glacial water to free a snagged fish.
Reeling
A fly rod and a 12-step book changed the same life. Here's how casting a line taught one woman to stay present, stay sober, and start again.
Confluence
Six weeks, twelve-hour days, and one grandma among a van full of 20-somethings learning to guide. A fly fishing degree, taken feet first.
Straight Outta Coeur d'alene
Meet the original fly fishing gangsters, the women who packed goats, babies, and gear to get on the river long before anyone was watching.
The Lesson
Four years ago she got skunked on the Owyhee and hated how much it stung. She kept going back anyway.
Taking the Leap
At 56, a software engineer trades 35 years behind a desk for waders, a campsite, and a six-week guide course in the Colorado mountains.
Finding Inspiration
Women anglers share why fly fishing became more than a hobby, it became the thing that got them through.
One Life One River
A life spent on the Chattahoochee turned a job into a calling, and a river into family.