Guiding Communities Outdoors with Cheyenne Smith

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Cheyenne Smith is a multifaceted, adventurer and outdoor guide. She skis, rock climbs, highlines, and leads climbing trips for women of color with a nonprofit called Women's Wilderness. Her guiding style focuses on building community and teaching others to be present and intentional when they're in the wild.

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0:00.0	Exciting news you guys, wild ideas worth living is now available on YouTube.
0:07.0	You can find our latest episodes uploaded their weekly, plus video clips with some of our guests that give you a peek behind the scenes.
0:14.1	Check out all the content at YouTube.com slash REI. I've always thought that being an outdoor guide is one of the best jobs.
0:30.0	Growing up I worked as a surf instructor and I've dabbled in guiding hikes and climbs.
0:35.2	There's no feeling like watching someone catch their first wave or scale their first wall.
0:40.8	Guiding people on longer outdoor trips takes that feeling even further.
0:44.0	It's so rewarding to spend days or even weeks in the wild,
0:48.0	disconnecting and teaching people new outdoor skills.
0:51.0	For folks going on their first outdoor trip, a good guide can make
0:55.6	or break the experience. They have to be able to keep everyone safe, solve problems on the
1:00.2	fly, and bring the group together.
1:11.0	That's why I'm taking community and connections so seriously with my guiding.
1:16.7	It is more than just reaching the top of a mountain or reaching the top of a climb. It's just being out there. For so many people, being out there is scary and for so many people were told you're not
1:25.5	supposed to be out there and so to break down those barriers and just allow people
1:29.9	to be out there is really important to me.
1:35.8	Cheyenne Smith is a multifaceted adventurer and outdoor guide.
1:39.5	She skis, rock climbs, highlines, and leads climbing trips for women of color with a
1:44.8	nonprofit called women's wilderness. Her guiding style focuses on building
1:49.7	community and teaching others to be present and intentional when they're in the wild.
1:55.0	When Cheyenne isn't guiding others for work, she's getting outside on her own,
2:00.0	highlining or rock climbing thousands of feet in the air. This is where she finds
2:05.1	connection, purpose, and peace. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth
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