DevineRIDE Women's only mountain bike camps

• Canada
• Cycling- Mountain
• Spring-Fall
• website

Whether you are a beginner or advanced rider DevineRIDE offers you appropriate skill sessions and afternoon rides to take you to a new level of ability and self confidence. DevineRIDE Mountain Bike Camps, now coming into their fourth year of operation, are located in Rossland nestled in the Monashee Mountains of the West Kootenays of British Columbia. Rossland, known as Canada’s Alpine City, offers world class terrain for riders of all levels. Canadian Cycling Legend, Cindy Devine, has teamed up with local Extreme Ski Champion, Kirsty Exner, to teach you how to enjoy Rossland’s renowned trails with confidence and new skill.

Access Snowboard Camps

• Japan, Canada, Europe, and Pacific Islands
• Snowboarding
• Winter
• website

Access Trips offers freestyle and freeride snowboard camps in Canada, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, and Norway. Enjoy expert coaching and world-class terrain for boarders of all abilities.

Alala Womens Mountain Adventures- Women's Ice Climbing Intensive

• Canada
• Ice Climbing
• Winter 2008/09
• website

Women’s Ice Climbing Intensive, Canadian Rockies. This all inclusive, four day ice climbing course designed for those of you who have climbed ice before and really want to take it to the next level. Three days of skill development in a toprope setting (guide:client ratios of 1:4) and one multi-pitch climbing day (guide:client ratios of 1:2). Intermediate to advanced ice climbers welcome! Venue TBA (somewhere in the Canadian Rockies). $1100 all inclusive. Extra multi-pitch days available if booked in advance.

Alala Womens Mountain Adventures- Women's Intro Ice Climbing

• Canada
• Ice Climbing
• Winter 2008/09
• website

Women’s Introductory Ice Climbing Course based in Canmore, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. This weekend course will immerse you in the sport of ice climbing, giving you a good grounding in the sport. No experience required.Optional multi-pitch ice climbing adventure on the day after the course. $350 for two days (does not include accom. Or food).

Alala Womens Mountain Adventures- Women's Ski Week

• Canada
• Backcountry / Avalanche Lessons and Skiing- Telemark/AT
• Winter 2008/09
• website

Women’s Backcountry Ski Week, Meadow Lodge, Selkirk Mountains B.C. This is an all inclusive 7 day heli accessed lodge based backcountry ski week in the glorious snow of the Selkirk Range of B.C. Tour each day from the lodge, ski untracked powder, increase your avalanche awareness and return to the comfort of a cozy lodge, sauna and great meals each night. $2200 all inclusive.

Bella Treks

• South America
• Trekking
• Year Round
• website

Allow Bella Treks to take you and your friends on an unforgettable adventure in Chile. We specialize in hiking, horseback riding, and birding in the Torres del Paine National Park. The park is home to magnificent granite peaks and numerous glaciers. It offers breathtaking scenery, pristine lakes, waterfalls, glaciers, forests and distinctive plants and animals. With Bella Treks you will see for yourself why this remote part of the world is receiving so much attention. Experience the pull of southern Patagonia! Extend your stay and explore Chile’s wine country. Please call or email us for more information.

Big Mountain Bike Adventures

• Africa, Canada, Central America, Europe, and South America
• Cycling- Mountain
• Year Round
• website

Big Mountain Bike Adventures is a company specializing in epic DH and all-mountain bike trips to spectacular locations such as the Swiss Alps, BC’s Kootenay Rockies, Costa Rica, Morocco, Peru, Italy and South Africa. We will be offering a women’s only trip in Zermatt next summer, August 22-29.

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.

Dirt Series by Rocky Mountain Bicycles

• Pacific Northwest and Rockies  /  Canada
• Cycling- Mountain
• Spring-Fall
• website  /  604-905-8876.

For the seventh consecutive season, the Dirt Series is taking to the road, venturing from its Whistler base to mountain bike destinations throughout Western Canada and the US.

Designed to offer professional, enthusiastic and supportive instruction to participants of all levels, the Dirt Series motivates beginner riders, cross-country dedicates, and freeride enthusiasts alike.

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.

Girlfriends Go Tours

• South America and Europe
• Cycling- Mountain, Cycling- Road, and Hiking
• Year Round
• website

Girlfriends Go Tours… Live with Purpose, Travel with Passion. Our goal is to guide women towards fun, adventure, fulfillment, and travel stories to fill a volume of memories. Tours include a focus on physical challenge with daily biking, hiking, and cultural adventures in Tuscany and Costa Rica. There is nothing like discovering the world from the seat of a bicycle, hiking through a distant land, or laughing over a good bottle of wine!

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.

Kirsty Exner's Women's-only Freeride Skiing camps at Red Resort

• Canada
• Skiing- Alpine
• Winter
• website

Kirsty Exner grew up skiing at Red Mountain. She is a two-time silver medallist in the World Extreme Free-skiing Championships, a frequent judge of Free-skiing competitions, an alpine ski instructor, a Pilates instructor, personal trainer and cross country ski instructor.

Ontdek Kenya: Kenya Women Walking Tours

• Africa
• Hiking
• Year Round
• website

Guided gameviewing walks in the Rift Valley & Masai Mara for active women seeking soft adventure instead of the vehicle confined safaris. Unhurried pace away from mass tourism. Luxury lodges, fine dining & ground support from a woman-owned company.

Pura Vida Adventures

• Central America
• Surfing and Yoga/Pilates
• Year Round
• website

This all womens surfing experience stands above the rest. Offering an all-inclusive package, PVA will teach the beginner or take the experienced surfer to the next level. Through our love for surfing and the beautiful country of Costa Rica, we will send you home with las suenas de olas….dreams of waves. What sets us aside from the rest? The people of Pura Vida Adventures. Your experience is our experience, and we love to surf and enjoy life to the fullest. Join us for the surfing experience of your lifetime.

Spokeswomen Mountain Bike Camps

• Canada
• Cycling- Mountain
• Spring-Fall
• website

Helping chicks rip since 1996. Small learning groups of 6 riders to 1 instructor offer intense attention and continual feedback, taking your riding to the next level. Weekend mornings are spent developing technical skills through instruction and drills, while afternoons are spent riding to apply new knowledge on the Whistler Bike Park trails or on trails throughout the Whistler valley.

Surf Diva Surf School

• Pacific Northwest  /  South America
• Surfing
• Year Round
• website

Surf Diva, the internationally recognized surf school for women, was established in 1996 by twin sisters Izzy Tihanyi and Coco Tihanyi. Their love of the ocean and of teaching surfing continues to be at the heart of the Surf Diva philosophy. The school runs various programs year-round specifically tailored to female surfers. Surf Diva’s expert staff has introduced women of all ages and from all walks of life to the waves! The Surf Diva Boutique located at La Jolla Shores has an extensive collection of surfboards for the female rider, surf apparel, bikinis and gifts, which can also be purchased on-line at www.surfdiva.com.

The Hole Hiking Experience

• Rockies
• Backpacking, Skiing-Nordic, Hiking, and Snowshoeing
• Year Round
• website

Snowshoe, Ski or hike in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and explore Grand Teton Park. Join The Hole Hiking Experience for a day with nature. Naturalist led excursions enliven your spirit while discovering peaceful, wilderness settings. Learn about animals and winter ecology while walking beneath the Teton Peaks.

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.

Venus Surf Adventures for Women

• Central America
• Surfing and Yoga/Pilates
• Year Round
• website

All inclusive surf camp for women. Six night adventures include healthy meals, daily surf lessons, yoga, hiking and nature walks for animal watching, massage, and a half day boat trip.

White Room Adventures: The Best of the French Alps

• Europe
• Cycling- Mountain
• Summer
• website

Rowdy Chick Adventures/White Room Adventures brings you a mountain bike tour you’ll never forget. 6 days of riding, each day beginning and ending at a different area in the French Alps. This unique tour uses chairlift access to gain elevation and help facilitate longer rides, all which end in long, surreal descents. Don’t let the easy access throw you off, this tour is physically demanding and will leave you plenty tired at the end of each day. Our tours are all inclusive- everything is included right down to the nightly “recovery” wine and multi course dinner. 6 days/ 7 nights from $1500. This tour will be lead by owner/guide Kelli Rohrig. Please see our website for more details.

White Room Adventures: Transalp Safari with former US National Team member Gale Dahlager

• Europe
• Cycling- Mountain
• Summer
• website

Rowdy Chick Adventures/White Room Adventures invites you to cross the French Alps by mountain bike- Les Portes du Soleil to Chamonix and back! Our tour will be lead by former US National Team member Gale Dahlager who had the great privilege to explore this area during the Mountain Bike World Championships which were held in Les Gets. The tour starts with a warm up in Europe’s version of Moab- Morzine, and continues across the Alps to world renown Chamonix. All-inclusive, all mountain bike, all fun. While this trip requires good fitness and skill, Gale will be along to give you tips to make the climbs easier and the descents more enjoyable. 6 days/ 7 nights start from $1600. Please see our website for more details.

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.