Encouraging trampers to ‘Hike like a woman’

August 2018

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Bozenka Raich's women-only hiking group has 100 members and is growing.
A global movement which aims to encourage women to get into tramping has started a branch in New Zealand that has proved popular with Kiwis. Hike Like a Woman started as a website, founded by American tramper Rebecca Walsh in 2015, to encourage woman into the outdoors, but hiking groups have now been established around […]
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