Women & the Wilderness

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The outdoor experience with Payton

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Payton Hoops is a long time adventurer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her love of the outdoors began at a young age when she would spend time hiking and camping with her family in the summers. Payton attended an expeditionary based high school where she discovered her love of backpacking, spending over 50 days in the Indian Peaks Wilderness and Mount Zirkel Wilderness between the ages of 13 and 17. When she graduated high school, Payton set out to complete the Colorado Trail thru hike, a 500-mile hike from Denver to Durango, Colorado. For the past decade, Payton has committed to sharing her love of the outdoors with youth, guiding multi-day trips in Colorado’s vast backcountry.

Now working a full-time job in the social impact sector, Payton is deeply grateful for any time she gets on the trails — hiking, biking, fly fishing backpacking, and skiing.

In this episode we talk about her experience hiking the Colorado Trail and the spectrum of emotions she went through, what expeditionary schooling is like, wilderness medicine resources and safety first and so much more.

Links we chatted about

NOLS Wilderness Medicine

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Welcome back!

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

WELCOME BACK! Long awaited, welcome back to season 3 of Women & the Wilderness. We’re so excited to share this next season with you. In this episode, we’ll get you up to speed on what we’ve been up to and what you can expect from this next season. Thanks for being here :)

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Connect with Hannah; @hannahrheaume

Connect with Bradee; @ponytail_onatrail

Backcountry nutrition, founding a business and hard lessons with Aaron founder of Backcountry Foodie

Thu, 21 Apr 2022

Aaron Owens Mayhew is a registered dietitian and ultralight long-distance backpacker with nearly 20 years of experience as a hiker and nutrition expert. In 2017, she quit her job and began preparing for her first thru-hike. During this process, Aaron realized how uniquely qualified she was to plan and prepare meals for outdoor athletes and decided to put her skills to the test.

She founded Backcountry Foodie, an online ultralight recipes and meal planning platform, that same year. Since then, Aaron has dedicated her career to helping thousands of hikers enjoy delicious food and improve their performance in the backcountry. She focuses on ultralight, low-volume recipes and meal plans specially formulated for endurance athletes. Aaron and her husband, Chis, now run Backcountry Foodie from their Sprinter van while living in the wilderness full-time. Aaron truly loves creating delicious, functional backpacking recipes and sharing her knowledge with like-minded hikers!

In this episode we dive into all of that plus section hiking the Condor Trail, how nutrition plays a role in her backcountry experience, how she runs her business and more.

Where to find Aaron + Backcountry Foodie

backcountryfoodie.com

@backcountry_foodie

Facebook

YouTube

Where to find Women & the Wilderness

@hannahrheaume

All things solo female travel with @annaroundtheworld_

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

Today we're chatting with Anna of @annaroundtheworld_! Although working remotely as a Mechanical Engineer, Anna is a full-time adventurist having traveled to over 100 countries. She’s currently on a mission to showcase beautiful & unusual destinations and to help others travel the world affordably and off-the-beaten-path.

In this episode we chat about solo female travel, her favorite experiences, how she makes working full time while still traveling work and so much more!

Where to find Anna

@annaroundtheworld_

annaaroundtheworld.com

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@hannahrheaume