Chicks on Cracks: Moab Desert Adventures

• Desert West
• Rock Climbing
• Fall
• website

Impeccable red sandstone, splitter desert cracks, the chance to improve your trad climbing skills with some of the most skilled and experienced female climbers of the genre. Moab Desert Adventures presents a unique opportunity for female climbers – learn to crack climb in the world’s foremost crack climbing destination, Indian Creek, Utah.

Exum Women's Climbing/Mountaineering/Ski Camps

• Desert West and Rockies
• Ice Climbing, Mountaineering, Rock Climbing, and Skiing- Telemark/AT
• Year Round
• website

Exum Mountain Guides is Americas oldest and most respected mountain guide service. We specialize in mountain climbing instruction and guided ascents of the Grand Teton, one of Americas most stunning peaks. Our program accommodates and welcomes total novices. We offer a full range of summer and winter courses, programs, guided climbs and ski descents and avalanche education, any of which can be arranged to be a womens specific? We also guide any peak and any route in Grand Teton National Park, the Wind Rivers, Devils Tower, City of Rocks (Idaho) and the Needles (South Dakota). See our website for details on these and other Women Specific programs.

Girls Adventure Out

• Desert West and Pacific Northwest
• Backpacking, Rock Climbing, Surfing, and Wildnerness Survival/ Backcountry Expeditions
• Year Round
• website

California’s Premiere Outdoor Adventure Provider! Surf Lessons, Surf Trips, Rock Climbing, Backpacking, Wilderness Survival Skills, Hiking, Camping, and Online Gear Shop! Adventure Out – Leading in Outdoor Adventure! Co-Ed Programs and Specialty Women’s Only Programs.

The Womens Wilderness Institute

• Desert West and Rockies
• Rock Climbing and Wildnerness Survival/ Backcountry Expeditions
• Year Round
• website

The Womens Wilderness Institute has been offering high quality outdoor adventures for women and teen girls in the Rocky Mountains and southwestern deserts and rivers since 1998. We offer fun, inspiring, real-life expeditions and courses that will teach you the skills you need for your own outdoor adventures. Rock climbing, mountain biking, backpacking, backcountry yoga retreats, canoeing, flyfishing, and wilderness writing workshops with author Pam Houston. We also offer Build-Your-Own courses for groups. Know a teen girl who could use some fresh air? Fees from Womens Courses help to support the Girls Wilderness Program, which builds courage, confidence, and leadership for teen girls.

TriChic Training Camp

• Desert West, Hawaii, Pacific Northwest, Rockies, and South  /  New Zealand
• Triathlon
• Year Round
• website

The TriChic Training Camps are for female triathletes “beginner to intermediate level” that are training for any olympic, half or full distance races. Participants will receive in-depth coaching in swimming, cycling and running as well as comprehensive seminars on sports nutrition, transitions, stretching, heart rate training, and race strategy. Athletes will be divided into groups of similar abilities.

Ultimate Grooves

• Desert West and New England
• Skiing- Telemark/AT
• Winter
• website

Ultimate Groove offers instructional day clinics and weekend long camps to women of all skiing abilities. Our holistic approach includes meals, video, yoga and demo gear for participants. Our instructors are some of the best female skiers in the country, including Heather Paul, founder of ultimate Groove, telemark freeskier and former world cup team member. Beginner telemark skiers are welcome as well as expert skiers looking to improve technique on various terrain.

WomanTours: Road Touring

• Desert West, New England, and Pacific Northwest  /  Africa, Asia, and Europe
• Cycling- Road
• Year Round
• website

WomanTours offers personalized, inn-to-inn road bike tours exclusively for women. We design our trips for women of all ages, abilities and lifestyles in the most beautiful places across the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia, providing unique experiences that foster confidence, happiness and a sense of adventure. We are bicyclists at heart, but we like to slow down for wild orchids on the side of the road in Hawaii, or a herd of goats in the road in Sicily. And we like to get off our bikes and hike, swim, ride horses or kayak. If you are looking for an active vacation, then you have found the right place. Come join us!

Women's Edventures 2-day Snowsports Clinic

• Desert West
• Backcountry / Avalanche Lessons
• Winter
• website

Women’s Edventures clinics are designed to enhance your enjoyment of your chosen sport through personalized and focused small group instruction. In an environment geared towards learning, women only clinics remove the pressure and offer an atmosphere of fun and support. This not only enables women to develop a more advanced skill base and understanding, but provides confidence and a new outlook on life’s challenges. Each ski and snowboard 2-day clinic includes: 2-day lift pass, five hours of instruction each day, apres snacks and women specific information, video analysis of movement, personalized improvement strategy, gift bag, raffle, along with breakfast the first day and lunch both days. These clinics are taught by certified PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of America) and AASI (American Association of Snowboard Instructors) women instructors with many years of experience in this specialty. The Women’s Edventures 2-day clinics are offered both on southern California at Big Bear Mountain Resorts in Big Bear Lake and northern California at Homewood Mountain Resort in Lake Tahoe. Hope you will join Women’s Edventures for fun and adventure.

Women's Edventures 2-day Snowsports Clinic

• Desert West and Pacific Northwest
• Skiing- Alpine and Snowboarding
• Winter
• website

Women’s Edventures clinics are designed to enhance your enjoyment of your chosen sport through personalized and focused small group instruction. In an environment geared towards learning, women only clinics remove the pressure and offer an atmosphere of fun and support. This not only enables women to develop a more advanced skill base and understanding, but provides confidence and a new outlook on life’s challenges. Each ski and snowboard 2-day clinic includes: 2-day lift pass, five hours of instruction each day, apres snacks and women specific information, video analysis of movement, personalized improvement strategy, gift bag, raffle, along with breakfast the first day and lunch both days. These clinics are taught by certified PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of America) and AASI (American Association of Snowboard Instructors) women instructors with many years of experience in this specialty. The Women’s Edventures 2-day clinics are offered both on southern California at Big Bear Mountain Resorts in Big Bear Lake and northern California at Homewood Mountain Resort in Lake Tahoe. Hope you will join Women’s Edventures for fun and adventure.

Women's Ski Camp / Alta, UT

• Desert West
• Skiing- Alpine
• January 22-26, 2009
• website

Just for women, the Alta Lodge Women’s Ski Camp brings together the best of the Alf Engen Ski School’s women’s instructors for three days of instruction and four nights of lodging, breakfasts and dinners. The group camaraderie starts the first night when we meet for dinner the evening before the on-the-hill session begins. During that time, you’ll get the ‘info” on the newest women specific skis so we can help you pick the right skis for you. Off the hill, we meet for après ski, dinners and breakfasts. In your spare time, relax….you can take a sauna or hot tub or schedule an in-room massage.

For women age 18 and older. This intensive clinic is designed for the immediate* through advanced level skier that is ready for new challenges in ski terrain and conditions, such as Alta’s famous powder snow.