I grew up in India until I was 12 years old, and the only outdoors available to me was playing badminton downstairs in front of my apartment :) I've only experienced nature truly after immigrating to the States and once I graduated college. What would you say to someone who says women shouldn’t solo hike? Click below to be the first to know when my one-of-a-kind backpacking program re-opens again for enrollment! Join me (and your peers) on a transformational adventure, where you will learn how to confidently go on your first ever (or perhaps your first solo) outdoor backpacking trip without the constant fear of getting lost, the crippling worry of being unprepared, and the lurking feeling that you lack the 'know-how' and skills required to stay safe on the trails. ARE YOU READY TO FIND YOUR OWN BACKPACKING COMMUNITY?

You can’t take a one-size-fits-all approach because you want to be able to adapt to different situations in the backcountry. The key thing is to understand the skills in-depth.

If getting lost makes you nervous, spend some time learning to navigate. If you’re worried about running into a bear, you can learn best practices for bear safety. When you’re confident in your hiking & backpacking skills, you can handle just about whatever you encounter in the backcountry. I created the Ultimate Outdoor Backpacker Starter Kit for you (and it's FREE)! This starter kit is filled with 14 pages of my best hiking and backpacking tips to help you learn what it takes to become a safe, confident, and self-sufficient outdoor backpacker! Just like men, women can push their bodies, learn the skills, and carry the gear to keep them safe on a solo backpacking trip. And if people are concerned that women don’t belong in the outdoors because they’re not capable, that’s just flat out wrong. While we might have heard horror stories of men on the trail attacking women, it’s really not more dangerous for women to be in the backcountry than to be in the city.

Let’s start with the first part of the question – is solo hiking safe? While no adventure in the outdoors can be guaranteed to be completely safe, if you have the right skills and proper gear, backpacking can be very safe.Īs for the second part of the question, would you ask that question of a man? Is it safe to go solo hiking and backpacking as a woman?

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