Gear manufacturers have realised that lots of women like the outdoors and they're different shapes from men. Here's what's out there, and where you can buy it.
Travel
Travel gives you a wide range of incredible experiences and should be compulsory. Travel opens your mind, broadens your outlook on life, gives you experience dealing with hardship and coping on your own and, quite literally, opens up new horizons. As a woman it can sometimes be a little bit daunting, so have a look at these resources for inspiration.Organisations
Wild Women on Top - to train you up and take you on an adventure of your choice, based out of Sydney. Read the GO! Girls Outdoors profile here.
Adventurous Women - women only travel experiences based out of Sydney. Read the profile here.
Call of the Wild - the longest running, women’s only adventure travel company in the world! Based just out of San Francisco.
Online Communities
The Women’s Adventure Club - join and link up with other adventurous women.
Lonely Planet’s Thorntree Forum - great place for accessing information, and they also have a thread for women travellers.
Did you know there is a Women's Adventure Magazine? They cover lots of travel stories in their publication and on their website.
Wanderlust and Lipstick is a comprehensive and informative website for women who travel. They are also the authors of the Wanderlust and Lipstick travel guides for women travellers.
And, of course, GO! Girls Outdoors' travel forum. Have you joined up yet?!
Female adventurers
A family on bikes - this family is cycling all the way from Alaska to Argentina: mum, dad and 10 year old twins. Make sure you read the profile of Nancy (mum) on GO! Girls Outdoors.
Working your way around the world is a website and blog by Thursday Bram - you can be inspired to work and travel the world while you do it.
Freya Hoffmeister is currently travelling around Australia - by sea kayak!
Julie Angus was the first woman to row across the Atlantic, from mainland to mainland. She also writes books and goes on other amazing adventures.
The adventure we call life - yet another shameless promotion of my own blog (the other is here)! Have a look in the archives for the account of the trip I took to India as a leader for 10 school girls.
And, of course, there's the GO! Girls Outdoors Travel Blog that you should investigate.
Books
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure - adventures through India by Australian author Sarah MacDonald, a fantastic read.
Find some Polly Evans in the library - she has had a wide range of adventures, and calls herself very cowardly (not that you'd think that from the books).
No Ceiling is by Heather Swan, BASEjumper and Wingsuit BASEjumper - the story of her journey from corporate mum to world class extreme athlete.
You might also like to read the review of The Woman's Guide to Boating and Cooking - an old and somewhat outdated "house"-keeping book for boats.
Do you know of some more resources that should be here? Contact GO! Girls Outdoors and let us know.