Mountain Women Magazine

Lifting Up Women with their stories in Colorado and Beyond

Happy Spring! Some might find it odd to have a skier on our cover but honestly, this is the best time of year to get out. The snow is soft and sweet and we ski into the summer months. The cover image is of my friend Kendra slaying Arapahoe Basin’s Steep Gullies. (Not only is she a great skier but she is a PhD and Professor of Epidemiology with research focused on type 1 Diabetes). It was an incredible Spring outing with our friend Robin too. I would say we have grown up skiing at the Basin.

Our opening story is about a Snowmass ski adventure. I had just gotten in from a whirlwind week, which by anyone’s accounting would be considered incredibly decadent. Then the world shut down due to Covid 19. I did not get to publish this story. I loved the experience, the mountain, and the resort. I am so happy to finally share it with you.

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Snow makes the Rivers Flow and rafting is at its height at this time of year. We have a great story about Women on the River by Lisa Blake. This is followed up by Hockey Mom’s (cause Hockey is just about a year-round sport), Favorite Things, a powerful Chef’s story, a Farmers feature, and a ton more.

The very last story is about a fabulous man who has crafted a cohesive coaching experience that invigorates the whole body through physical, mental and emotional strength training. We fondly named this section The Token Male.

A little bit of history about our magazine. Back in 2014, I was flipping through our kin publication, Mountain Town Magazine, which I publish. I noticed that almost every article we published was about a man. Honestly, it was a bit unsettling. Not that we do not love men, we most certainly do, but women do not get enough recognition in mountain town/ski and ride media.

I looked around and saw so many badass Women. Women athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, philanthropists, chefs, educators, musicians, mothers, and even those rocking the world with their skills in the grandma arts (you know, knitting, crocheting, needlepoint). We decided right then to change that and introduced Mountain Town Magazine’s first issue of Women Who Rock the Rockies. Five Years after that we launched Mountain Women Magazine.

That edition and subsequent issues continue to celebrate Women in our mountain towns who are significant in their contributions to their communities, have achieved personal successes in their field, and are recognized with stories that feature their talents. Now more than ever Women need to be recognized and honored.

In this issue, you will find our 7th Women Who Rock the Rockies feature. We asked friends and friends of friends to nominate Women they thought deserved that accolade and the responses were fantastic!

Being a mountain Woman does not necessarily mean that you have to live in the mountains to belong, it is more of having the spirit of the mountain in you. As John Muir said, “you are not in the mountains, the mountains are in you.”

We are Girls, Mothers, Ladies, Lassies, Lovers, Babes, and Bad Asses! We are Women and a magazine for those ladies filled with a passion for living life in the mountains in the Colorado Rockies and beyond. Today more than ever we need to lift one another up and help each other climb higher.

With Gratitude,

Holly Battista-Resignolo, Publisher

Publisher and Wearer of Many Hats and Helmets