Ready to start backpacking?
Learn how to become a safe, confident, and self-sufficient outdoor backpacking badass (no matter what age or level of experience you’re starting at), so that you can go on and finally take charge of your biggest, wildest, outdoor adventure dreams.
Become an outdoor Backpacking badass!
YOU deserve to feel safe,
confident, and self-sufficient
on the trail (& in life). And
that’s EXACTLY what I teach.
Hey, I’m Allison
I’m an Outdoor Backpacking Educator & Empowerment Coach.
I teach women how to become truly confident, safe, & self-sufficient in the outdoors (specifically through the skill of BACKPACKING) so that they can finally start taking real ownership of their safety on the trail and start making some real momentum on their big adventurous dreams – no matter what level of experience or time in their life they’re starting from.
Through outdoor backpacking and our signature coaching program, Become an Outdoor Backpacking Badass®, we teach women how to be self-made, self-sufficient, and the creators of their dreams—and to stop living on the sidelines of their dreams due to fear. We believe backpacking is a powerful catalyst for self-empowerment and is a radical form of self-care that every woman who is drawn to the outdoors can benefit immensely from.
Safe, confident, self-sufficient, resilient, empowered, free >> That is a Backpacking Badass™ Will you join us?
Outdoor Backpacker Starter Kit
START TODAY: 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!
The adventurous womans guide to thriving during chaotic & uncertain times
YOUR ADVENTUROUS MINDSET: Inside this free 11 page PDF guide you’ll find my very best tips for shifting from panic & uncertainty to thriving & growing no matter what you have going on in your life.
Backpacking Resources & Packing Checklist
GET ORGANIZED: Grab my full Backpacking Gear Checklist that is perfect for 2-5 day backpacking trips. In addition to this organized checklist, you’ll also get a visual checklist, layering essentials tip-sheet, and 25+ backpacking food ideas that I personally love on backpacking trips.
day hiking
In my day hiking gear list post I go through my complete hiking gear list with examples of brands I trust and love for my own hiking gear, but also be sure to download my day hike checklist and print it off so that you never forget the essentials again!
backpacking
This blog post will take each of my backpacking gear list items and will break it down into the gear that I personally recommend and love using myself. So basically, this post is a look at my backpacking gear closet… my backpacking must haves so-to-speak + a Free Downloadable Checklist to go with it of course!
Here’s a small sampling from the students enrolled in the Become an Outdoor Backpacking Badass® program.
— melani —
My number one goal was to be self-sufficient and to be fully reliant on myself...which was the main reason I jumped all in on this course. And I love the alumni piece of it where I can see all the women who are in there and maybe connect with them. To have a place to ask the questions you sometimes feel stupid to ask.
— laurie —
I decided to enroll in Allison’s course. That decision set me on the path to my first solo backpacking trip to Havasu Falls…it was a success! I am so, so glad that I stumbled upon Allison’s initial email. Otherwise I think I would have quickly given up or, worse, I might have become one of those people who put the first responders at risk while they rescue you.
— heather —
I decided I wanted to do more and I was tired of watching everyone else have the adventures and being too scared to do them myself… Everything that Allison taught was everything I needed to do to prepare myself, and my kids for this trip. We ended up doing a 4-day backpacking trip in West Virginia that was 23 miles, and it was amazing!
Read more student stories here.
