OTA In The News

Stay up to date with our recent features, presentations and more! 

 
 
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6 Women Adventurers Who Are Changing the World by our own Elyse Rylander

These explorers’ exploits go beyond just summiting a mountain: They're using the outdoors to preserve Native culture, protect the environment, and more.

 
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OTA featured in may's outside magazine print issue

This Is What Adventure Looks Like by James Edward Mills

 
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Elyse & OTA featured in outside magazine

Elyse Rylander Is a Trailblazer for LGBTQ Youth by Xian Chiang-Waren

The founder of Out There Adventures discovered power in nature while growing up gay. Now she's sharing it with the next generation—and taking the industry by storm.

 
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The Avarna group expands team

Elyse becomes one of latest partners for The Avarna Group, a consulting firm focused on the intersection of social and environmental justice and dedicated to "empowering organizations to make change, and not just talk about it." 

 
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Diversify Outdoors launches

Coinciding with this year's Winter Outdoor Retailer OTA was elated to be featured in this first of its kind and incredibly necessary resource. #DiversityOutdoors #getOUTthere  

 
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Transforming youth outdoors

Camp Chat: Elyse Rylander of OUT There Adventures by Shawnté Salabert

"As Elyse Rylander wrapped up her undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin, she had a clear vision about the road ahead..."

 
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OTA to present at 2018 Climbing wall association annual summit 

Elyse Rylander to present workshop entitled, "Tools to Summit Equity Mountain: Reducing Industry Access Barriers through Inclusive Partnership and Internship Programs"

 
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Elevation outdoors 

Brave New Outdoors by Kassondra Cloos

"The Rockies leads the country when it comes to embracing the $887 billion dollar outdoor recreation economy, but the region is also reimagining exactly what “outdoors” means. These five big new ideas are changing everything."

 
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Ecodiversity 2018 top women in conservation & Environmental Justice

Founder and E.D. Elyse Rylander wins inaugural award alongside other formidable outdoor industry women such as Betty Reid Soskin and Rose Marcario. 

 
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Women Who Wild: 2018 Community Awards

Alongside two dozen other amazing women Elyse receives Hipcamp's Women Who Wild award. 

 
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OTA at winter outdoor retailer 

From the Allyship 101 panel to an Outdoor Industry Association panel on social media to a Misadventures feature the 2018 Winter Outdoor Retailer was definitely a little more queer. 

Want more? Check out our feature in SNEWS and RANGE.

 
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Alpinist 

The Changing Faces of the Outdoors by Teresa Baker

Q&A with our founder and Executive Director.

 
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Modern Hiker

Trailblazers: Elyse Rylander of OUT There Adventures by Shawnté Salabert

"Statistics can seem like nothing more than a jumble of crunched numbers until considered in context, when they become something much more tangible – and sometimes sobering..."

 
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SNEWS Feature

"We need to stop gendering everything"

Our Executive Directors speaks to the significance of unpacking binary gender in the outdoor industry.