When 6 in 10 women struggle to name an outdoor female role model, how are girls supposed to know they belong in adventure spaces?

Cheri and Aubryanna were two of the young adults selected for the Summit Scholarship Foundation's 2024 Mt. Baker youth climb.

Spoiler alert: This all-women’s rope team didn’t reach the physical summit of Mt. Baker. But they gained something just as powerful.

Angie sat down with Aubryanna and Cheri to talk about ambition, fear, belonging, and what it means to come together in sisterhood on top of a glacier.

We talked about:

• Data from a 2017 REI study on women in the outdoors
• What it was like to apply for a Summit Scholarship as a teen
• The story of the climb and the AWExpeditions team and guides
• The decision to turn around and not reach the summit
• Biggest lessons from their first mountaineering experience
• The difference between all-women's and coed wilderness trips

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Summit Scholarship Foundation. Applications open in late 2025.
• Become a Trailblazer! Your Adventure Fundraiser makes wilderness experiences possible for girls and women.
• AWExpeditions: AWE organizes mountaineering and remote adventures for women, by women.

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Brought to you by the Alliance for Gender Equity in Outdoor Adventure (GEA Alliance).

Hosted by Angie Marie Lake, edited by Alyson Castonguay, research assistance by Danielle Peecher

🎙️ Introducing: Field Notes, a series featuring your written and read stories.

We're now accepting submissions from our community, and we’d love to feature your voice in the mix.

We’re looking for personal essays set in the outdoors. Think friendship, change, healing, ridiculous encounters, anything that captures a moment where the outdoors shifted your perspective of the world or yourself.

Find guidelines and how to submit your story at cairnproject.org/podcast.

✏️ Field Notes | Caught in the Current: Lessons from Surviving a Flash Flood in the Grand Canyon

In 2023, Angie got a life-changing opportunity to spend 21 days rafting through the Grand Canyon. On Day 13, a handful of mistakes led her group to be trapped in a side canyon during a flash flood. Hear about:

• How a group of 16 boaters unexpectedly found themselves in a flash flood in Arizona
• The self-rescue attempts and successes to safely get the group out of Havasu Canyon
• Angie's personal experience as a woman in a more experienced group
• The heuristic traps that led the group to make mistakes
• How being caught in the current gave Angie a new perspective on what it means to spend time on the river

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• ⁠⁠Become a Trailblazer⁠⁠. Your Adventure Fundraiser makes wilderness experiences possible for girls and women.
• Check out the ⁠⁠Summit Scholarship Foundation⁠⁠.
• Share this episode with a friend or family member.

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Brought to you by the Alliance for Gender Equity in Outdoor Adventure (GEA Alliance).

Hosted by Angie Marie Lake, edited by Alyson Castonguay, research assistance by Danielle Peecher

Think you need alpine access, fancy gear, or a mountain town zip code to train for a major expedition? Think again.

Rachel Fagiano is an avid hiker, mountaineer, rock climber and ice climber based in New York City.

They have a career background in racial justice, and now their work focuses on creating safe and welcoming environments and improving access to the outdoors for communities that have been traditionally excluded in those spaces.

We talk about:

• How a climbing Groupon led to a community of mentors and a new career
• What it’s like training for a 22,000+ foot peak from a sixth-floor walkup in NYC
• The mental edge urban training built for high-altitude expeditions
• Why they turned their Aconcagua expedition into a catalyst for career change
• How they’re now guiding across the U.S. and helping diversify the outdoor industry
• Tangible ways to practice resource and power sharing, no matter your location or means

Send this episode to somebody who you think should turn their adventure into a force for good by becoming a Trailblazer!

Mentioned in this episode:

• Rachel on Instagram
• Summit Scholarship Foundation
• Become a Trailblazer!

By the way, it's not too late to sign up for the June 100 Challenge!

Like this episode? Leave a 5-star rating and review on your podcast app!

• ⁠Become a Trailblazer⁠. Your Adventure Fundraiser makes wilderness experiences possible for girls and women.
• Check out the ⁠Summit Scholarship Foundation⁠.
• Share this episode with a friend or family member.

Make sure you subscribe to the See Her Outside Podcast so you don’t miss a story!

Brought to you by the Alliance for Gender Equity in Outdoor Adventure (GEA Alliance).

Hosted by Angie Marie Lake, edited by Alyson Castonguay, research assistance by Danielle Peecher