Adventuring Into Life | Women's Programs | Kamloops
A full-day retreat into the wilderness — fire-cooked lunch included
Build a fire from scratch, forage and brew wild tea, read the forest, and leave carrying something you made with your own hands.
There is something that happens when a woman builds her own fire. From nothing. With her own hands.
It is not just warmth. It is something older than that. A quiet knowing that settles in and says: I can do this. I belong here.
Women in the Wild is not a workshop. It is not a survival clinic. It is a day of coming back to yourself, through the land, through your hands, through the company of other women doing the same thing.
Set along the shores of Isobel Lake, this program is designed for women who want to feel genuinely at home in the forest, whether you have spent your whole life outdoors or you have been waiting for the right moment to start.
You will leave knowing how to read the plants around you, how to make fire from a single spark, and how to cook a real meal over flames you built yourself. You will leave with something you made with your own hands. And you will leave a little more awake to the world just outside your door.
Led by experienced female instructors. All skill levels welcome, including complete beginners.
Every moment is intentional. Every skill connects to the next. By the time you leave, the day will feel like one long, satisfying thread.
Meet your guides and the women you will spend the day with. Get your bearings, leave the noise of the week behind, and let the forest start doing what it does.
We move into the trees together at the pace of the land. Not a workout, not a race. Along the trail your guide will stop and introduce you to the plants growing all around you: what they are, what they offer, and how people have used them for generations. You will leave with a new way of seeing the landscape you have been walking through your whole life.
You will also collect a few things along the way to bring back to the fire.
Before you ever strike a spark, you will understand why wood selection matters, how to read tinder, and why the structure of your fire is everything. Then comes the ferro rod. One strike sends a shower of sparks at thousands of degrees, and when that tinder catches and you nurse it into a flame, something happens that is difficult to describe and impossible to forget.
No shortcuts. No lighters. Just you, your hands, and a fire that is completely yours.
While the fire settles, you steep a foraged tea from plants collected on the trail. You pour it into an enamel mug and sit with it in the trees, and it tastes like a sip of the forest itself.
Then lunch. A real, satisfying meal prepared and cooked over the fire you built. Not trail mix. Food that takes time and attention and tastes completely different than anything you have eaten indoors.
Woven into your day is a hands-on bushcraft craft activity, a skill rooted in wilderness tradition that results in something real and finished that you take home. The details of what you will make will be shared ahead of the day, but plan to leave with a handmade piece that tells the story of where it came from.
It is a small thing to carry home. But every time you reach for it, you will remember what your hands are capable of when you give them the chance.
This was built for the woman who has been curious but not sure where to start. You do not need to know anything. You just need to show up.
You are already out there. You want to know what is growing around you, how to make fire, and how to feel more capable when you are further from the trailhead.
Not errands. Not a screen. A day that does something real for your nervous system. Fresh air, good company, a fire you built yourself, and a meal that earned its taste.
No experience required. Just show up ready to get your hands a little dirty.
You will leave knowing how to read the land, how to make fire from a single spark, and what your hands are capable of when you let them try.
Women in the Wild — Isobel Lake, Kamloops
Space is intentionally small. Twelve women, one morning, a forest that has been waiting. When it is full, it is full.
Save Your Spot — CA$13512 spots total · June 6, 2026 · 10:00am – 4:00pm · Isobel Lake