Wild Women Expeditions Takes Women Where Few Have Trekked Before
by Heather Cassell
Two different itineraries, five different departures. It sounds like the beginning of a choose your own adventure novel, but Wild Women Expeditions is setting out to take women into the depths of Canada’s Newfoundland in 2018.
These two distinct week-long adventures, Icebergs and Arts Adventures and Gros Morne Multi-Sport Adventure journeying into Canada’s northeastern front is the latest addition to the nearly 30-year old Newfoundland-based women’s adventure company’s offerings.
For nearly three decades, the company has led beginning to advanced outdoor adventure trips canoeing, cycling, hiking, horseback riding, kayaking, rafting, sailing, surfing, yoga, and more in more than 30 countries.
This year alone, the company’s 61 guides are taking women on a variety of adventure trips in 26 countries, 21 itineraries are in Canada, 18 of which are in British Columbia and Ontario, two are in Newfoundland, and one each in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
“Canada is a country designed for adventurers. For women who want it all, Canada delivers the goods,” Jennifer Haddow, owner of Wild Women Expeditions, told Adventure Travel News. “We’ve been trailblazing outdoor adventures in Canada for over a quarter of a century.”
“Increasingly women want to feel the freedom of connecting with wild space in its finest form. In Canada are some of the wildest and grandest natural treasures on the planet,” she added.
Starting in June through September, women adventurers will journey out on the physically challenging, poignantly stunning landscape of Canada’s remote northeastern corner few other adventure travel companies have offered tours to, she said.
“This is a place of stark ancient beauty, where the ground beneath your feet tells the story of Earth’s geological history. It’s also a place where icebergs stroll up and down coastal waters and where fjords claw their way into the interior,” explained Haddow, noting that few other adventure travel companies offer tours here.
Newfoundland’s western shore, separated from Quebec by the Gulf of St. Lawrence that eventually pours into the North Atlantic.
Indigenous peoples predated the Vikings who arrived about 1,000 years ago. Then in the late 16th century, England first raised a flag on the North American continent in what came to be called Newfoundland. Fishermen soon discovered some of the Atlantic’s most productive waters in the easternmost corner of Canada. The park’s Long Range Mountains, which are part of the Appalachian chain rising from Georgia through Maine, testify to this once geologically charged world rife with volcanos and glaciers.
Jennifer grew up near Gros Morne National Park where on one of the treks women will begin hiking through a barren landscape where they will discover where the peridotite end and ancient oceanic crust begins. On this journey, the women will hike through a boreal forest to the rugged coastline where pillow lava and sea stacks dominate the shore before moving onto the rich marine wonderland of Bonne Bay and a landlocked lake. The trip will peak following a 10-hour hike to the summit of Gros Morne Mountain.
“Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is as important to Plate Tectonics Theory as Ecuador’s Galapagos Archipelago is to the Theory of Evolution,” Jennifer said. “The challenges of this environment become metaphors for the challenges faced by the women who choose to travel with us.”
Wild Women Expeditions is also venturing beyond Canada to Argentina, Bahamas, Baja, Belize, Bhutan, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, Galapagos, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Scotland, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, United States (Alaska, Arizona, and Hawaii), and Vietnam in 2018.
Book your next wild women outdoor adventure with Girls That Roam Travel. Contact Heather Cassell at Girls That Roam Travel at 415-517-7239 or at .
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