8 Blogs to Inspire Female Outdoor Adventurers

 Needless to say, number one on my list has to be Dirtbag Darling.

 Johnie Gall has done an insane job of inspiring women to get outside, get active and embrace the natural world. Her "Play Outside" challenge, is nothing short of genius. Her blog features journal entries with reflections on her own life and adventures, outdoor gear reviews, field notes on land, snow and sea activities, travel entries, life hacks, monthly features on inspirational women, from fly-fishers to 'lady tramps' and even an online shop to cash in on some of her favourite camping, hiking and surfing gear. Her blog was recently featured in Marie Claire's 2015 "Change Your Life" issue and Cooler mag's "7 Stylish Blogs Every Adventurous Woman Should Read". Dirtbag Darling is all about encouraging women to get muddy, salty and sweaty, leaving behind what it means to be 'cool' and enjoying life and nature for what it is.
In Johnie's own words..

 "It’s a celebration of owning less, doing more, and having simple, authentic experiences worth writing about. 

And getting dirty. Obviously".

Another favourite of mine is Range. 
Founded by Jeanine Pesce; Range is an active, sports and lifestyle agency and magazine that features awesome daily articles on all things active and outdoors in a more modern, groomed and tech-savy kind of way.
Read one of their latest pieces on outdoor therapy to see what I mean.

 Captain Liz Clark is a surfer, sailor, environmentalist and National Geographic's 2015 Adventurer of the year. 
She reflects on love, forgiveness and compassion whilst sailing Swell, her 1963 Cal-40 sailboat, alongside her tropicat, Amelia.
If you want to learn more about being environmentally friendly and how to eat consciously, consider Liz your master and check out her teachings. 

 She Explores represents all novel outdoors women with an appetite for adventure.
Founder, Gale Straub, set out to write about her own endeavours treking North America with her partner in a Dodge Sprinter van, along the way, interviewing other inspirational women on the road. It'll surprise you how many women are living alternatively out of campervans and caravans, positively redefining societies expectations of the traditional housewife way of life by living nomadically and travelling alone.

WARNING: This may leave you wanting to quit your job, ditch your life, move out, buy a campervan and live on the road. 

 Love living a salty life? You'll love The Drifter.
Photographer Ming Nomchong founded The Drifter, through a love of surfing, travelling and living by the sea. Bursting with talented surf photography; drown in a sea of blue whilst scrolling through her work. Beautiful photographs of fearless female surfers chasing waves will make you want to grab your log and head out for a sunset session with your girl friends. 

 Another surf blog; Ladyslider creator Tara is more than inspired by surfing and spends most of her days mastering her cross step. 
She eats, breathes and sleeps surfing, as expressed by her blog. She represents the original Hawaiian surf goddess, living in paradise, communicating her way of life through visual content, i.e. bloody awesome photographs of her and friends getting some decent sized waves on all kinds of equipment.
Be prepared to have serious surfboard envy.

 Empowering female travellers, Adventurous Kate writes all about being a woman travelling solo. 
At 26 she quit her job and now travels full time with one aim; to show you how it's done.
Her top 3 posts include her adventures in Shetland, being shipwrecked in Indonesia and being naked in public.
Planning to go backpacking alone? Worried about feeling vulnerable or unsafe?
Read Kate's articles on female solo travel and learn about keeping safe and whether or not you should lie about being married whilst travelling alone. The impressive number of destinations she has visited alone makes her advice real, believable and reliable.
Let her mistakes teach you a lesson, and let her lessons teach you to make your own mistakes. 

 A lot less girlier than the rest, Adventure Journal is an online magazine founded in 2008 by Steve Casimiro. 
Articles contain posts on outdoor gear, historical badass', outdoors vans and landrovers, biking, cabins and elegant landscape photography. Personal essays reflect on cairn building, cliff jumping and why there are so little female adventure movies (yeah why is that?!). This online magazine is what I'd consider to be gender neutral, however, doesn't ignore the fact that women are underrepresented when it comes to the outdoors. Read one of my favourite posts "When Women Wear Bruises To Work" celebrating female mountain bikers and the scrapes and bruises then adorn.
If you do nothing, at least check out The Weekend Cabin; features on the worlds most unbelievable cabins, only ever adored on Pinterest.