358 Women’s Only Hiking Tours
Show Notes
Aussie women are increasingly choosing hiking holidays and women’s only trips over traditional getaways after children, milestone birthdays, divorce or a major life upheavals. In this podcast episode we catch up with Frith Hudson from GirlsTrek to talk about what they have to offer as well as how and why she came to create this women’s only hiking business.
Podcast Overview
In this podcast episode we find out all about Women’s only hiking tours:
- Podcast and Episode introduction (time index 0:01:20)
- Before we talk about GirlsTrek, tell us a bit about yourself and the hiking (time index 0:02:15)
-
- Now let’s talk about the GirlsTrek. What made you decided to create this women’s only adventure company? (time index 0:05:15)
-
- Who comes hiking with you? (time index 0:09:46)
- Demographics
- Act of Service
- Who comes hiking with you? (time index 0:09:46)
-
- The Guides (time index 0:14:11)
- 2 Guides/trip
- The Guides (time index 0:14:11)
-
- Let talk about the trips (time index 0:17:36)
- What the regular schedule?
- What are the special trips you offer?
- Let talk about the trips (time index 0:17:36)
-
- Was are people carrying on your trips? (time index 0:34:17)
- Typically day packs average around 5kg
- Was are people carrying on your trips? (time index 0:34:17)
-
- Trip cost around $800/day (time index 0:35:07)
-
- Have you had men apply to join your trips? (time index 0:38:32)
- Final Thoughts (time index 0:49:15)
- Close (time index 0:53:21)
Frith Hudson at Byron Bay, the face behind the voice (Image from GirlsTrek)
Girls Trek group shot (Image from GirlsTrek)
GirlTrek Group shot Peru (Image from GirlsTrek)
GirlTrek in Mongolia (Image from GirlsTrek)
Resources
Listening to the Australian Hiker Podcast
You can listen to just one episode but the best way to listen to the Australian Hiker Podcast is by subscribing through iTunes, Podbean, Spotify where the podcast episodes will be delivered to your device almost as soon as they are published. Go on, you know you want to!
You can listen to the Australian Hiker Podcast in the following ways:
- Through our website. All our episodes can be found here
- On Apple technology listen through Apple Podcasts here
- On Android phones (as well as apple) we also recommend Podbean
In addition the are a number of other ‘podcatcher’ services that allow you to download our episodes. Below are a few options where to find us:
Australian Hiker Social Media
Australian Hiker can also be found on our various social media platforms
Contact us
Support us
Australian Hiker is a labour of love for Gill and Tim Savage and any money earned goes straight back into helping to make this blog better. Any support that you provide is greatly appreciated! If you wish to support us, even in some small way, it would be greatly appreciated. So why not buy us a coffee? Support Us
Episode Publishing date
15 September 2026