🛶 Speaking Up on River Party Culture, Outdoor Assault + Sobriety: Run Coach and Midwife Acadia Gantz | See Her Outside Podcast

<p>Acadia Gantz is a midwife, running coach, and former river guide and ski patroller who lives, works, and plays in the western Maine mountains. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Content note: this episode includes discussion of sexual assault, alcohol use, disordered eating, and depression. Please take care while listening.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Acadia and Angie talked about:</p><ul><li>Leaving Colorado State University to guide rivers and work ski patrol</li><li>How party culture gets baked into seasonal outdoor work</li><li>Being the only woman guide at her outpost, and the sexual assault by a senior guide the company protected</li><li>Self-medicating with alcohol, disordered eating, and ultrarunning</li><li>Four attempts at the Bear 100, and the 2023 race where she cried for 36 hours</li><li>Sobriety, a sobriety community, EMDR, and feeling lighter on her feet in the woods</li><li>Sharing her story publicly for the first time, and the stories that showed up once she did</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Big news: </strong>Acadia is coaching the new trail half marathon cohort of the Trail Running Sisterhood, our 2027 scholarship program. Applications open November 2026.</p><p><a href="https://cairnproject.org/first-50k-sisterhood">⁠Trail Running Sisterhood⁠</a> (and join the <a href="https://the-cairn-project.kit.com/sisterhood">⁠2027 waitlist⁠</a>)</p><p><strong>📚 Podcast rec! The Outdoorsy Women+ Book Pod</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Hosted by Christine Reed, the Outdoorsy Women+ Book Pod features women and gender-expansive writers with an outdoor adventure book out in the world. They cover hiking, running, climbing, kayaking, biking, and snow sports, in memoir, narrative nonfiction, and fiction.</p><p>On this show, we&#39;re always nudging you to tell your own story. Christine&#39;s guests took that all the way to a finished book — and now you can hear all about it in audio form!</p><p>Follow the <a href="https://www.ruggedoutdoorswoman.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Outdoorsy Women+ Book Pod</a> wherever you&#39;re listening right now, and find your next favorite episode (or book).</p><p><br></p><p>Check out these resources:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.canyonwrencoaching.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Canyon Wren Coaching</a>, Acadia&#39;s website</li><li>Acadia on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/trailrunningbabycatcher/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@trailrunningbabycatcher</a><