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She Explores

Fifty Years as an Outdoor Entrepreneur: Sheri Tingey

She Explores

Gale Straub

Road Trips, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Society & Culture, Creativity, Wilderness, Hiking, Places & Travel, Outdoor Women, Camping, Outdoors

4.6914 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sheri Tingey has been making gear in the outdoor industry for the past 50 years, and she's done a lot of it with her own two hands. Learn about what drives her to solve problems, how she learned the important lesson of slowing down, and what happened after she re-started her career in her 50's by founding Alpacka Raft.

Transcript

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This episode of She Explores is brought to you by Benchmark Maps.

0:04.0

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From where to see the best vistas to how to find camping.

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0:52.0

This episode of She Explorers is also brought to you by Sawyer.

0:56.2

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0:59.6

backpacking is filtering my own water. It's a moment to relax and rest and it's when I feel

1:05.5

really connected to the landscape that I'm hiking through. Soir makes a variety of

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