LOWA Blog

By: LOWA Ambassador, Alexandra Garcia

By the time this article is published, the countdown timer will be reminding me I am T-4 months from Denali. This big, intimidating, exhilarating, somewhat larger than life goal will be a mere school semester away from reality. The day this article is published, I will also very likely coming out of my 6-week post-op follow-up appointment, eager to receive the go-ahead from my orthopedic surgeon to start weight-bearing exercises.

Youth Participant Ava, right, laces up her new LOWA mountaineering boots on Mount Baker.

LOWA is proud to sponsor Summit Scholarship and its mission of empowering women to access big mountaineering. 

By: LOWA Pro Team Athlete Sunny Stroeer

A week before Thanksgiving I set out to run the length of the Arizona Trail, all 800 miles of it. I wanted to do it in record time, too, which meant that I needed to beat the standing women’s record of 17 days and 11 hours. 

By: LOWA ambassador Lisa Ballard

When I was a kid, hunting was a guy-thing. The dad’s disappeared into the woods for a week each fall, while the mom’s bantered about whether the game they really sought was wild or poker. When I learned to hunt, in the late 1980’s, there were few women afield, but I went because it was something to enjoy outdoors, at first with friends and later with my family, especially as my son, Parker, got older.

By: LOWA Pro Team Athlete Sunny Stroeer

I am a little over a week out from embarking on what may be the hardest endurance endeavor of my life to date: I want to run the 817-mile Arizona Trail in record time.