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Last month, Dan and I headed out to Colorado to fly fish and toted the SHE Outdoor Waterfowl Waders across the country to finally do the field test.   

We rented a car in Denver and drove six hours to Durango (yes, we took the long way!), stopping only for a beer in Ouray.  Although charmed by the Alps like town, we couldn’t wait to get over the mountain because we were fly fishing in the morning!  

My entire family fly fishes but I’d only been a few times and Dan had only been once – we were giddy!  Since getting married in 2013, we had talked at length about what activity might be suited for us to “grow old together” and without much debate, we settled on fly fishing...

Nationwide celebration of female outdoor enthusiasts to take place Saturday, April 18
Posted by: Women’s Outdoor News

SIDNEY, Neb. — Cabela’s announced today plans to celebrate the company’s biannual Ladies’ Day Out event, Saturday, April 18, at stores nationwide with guest appearances, sales, seminars, workshops and more.

According to the Outdoor Foundation’s 2014 Outdoor Participation Report, of the 142.6 million U.S. participants in outdoor activities, 46 percent – approximately 65.6 million – are female. Cabela’s Ladies’ Day Out event offers educational workshops and insight on outdoor products and activities and encourages women and families to embrace and enhance their passion for the outdoors. 

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By Hannah J. Ryan

A social scientist, a fly fisherwoman, an archery huntress, and a hook and bullet daughter held court on an all-women panel at this year’s Rendezvous. Last year was the inaugural women in hunting and fishing panel at the yearly gathering of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. This year I was honored with an invitation to sit on the panel.

 Stacy Keogh, a sociology professor at Whitworth University, kicked things off by presenting her findings about the motivations of women hunters. She interviewed 39 hunting women of various ages across 11 states and she shared a few of their responses as well as distinct themes in their responses. Many respondents said they recognize they are challenging gender norms by hunting, some mentioned how they enjoy challenging this norm...

By Britt Lamotte

Of all the things you can go crazy over – name anything – I am a sucker for dirt. I have to dig it up, mix it up, push it around and cover it up with plants, and then make sure I don’t spend all my money in the process. The plants are expensive, but the dirt much more so. In fact, I don’t even have a square foot of dirt to my name yet – it’s rented. Blame the economy, blame my love for expensive organic coffee but we are still renting, and our rented home is packed full with bikes, dog vests, fishing rods and reels, guns, ammo boxes, archery bows, pheasant feathers, boats, tents and backpacks. Everything we could want for adventure. Everything but the dirt.

We’ve started looking at available properties and weighing the pros and cons of building our own house o...

Recently, Southwick Associates released a study about women in the outdoors, their activities, perceptions, purchases and related media consumption.  What’s telling about this study is that although there has been an increase in women who hunt and fish, we’re not more likely to take children hunting or fishing.  In fact men are 20% more likely to take children hunting than women and women are 43% less likely to take children fishing.  What is stopping us from introducing children to fishing and hunting?  How do we make ourselves more confident to do so?  I come to the Camo is the New Black community to ask this question but also challenge us as women to do better.  Keep spreading the word, camo truly is the new black!!

* Click here for access to the full Women in the Outdoors report.