At Bruso’s recommendation, however, Gregory now makes packs that fit up to 6X in 14 styles and 16 colors. When it entered the plus-sized market with its backpacks, it planned to expand to size 2X. Some companies like the Holladay-based Gregory Mountain Products, which sponsored Saturday’s hike and provided swag to participants, have made concerted efforts to buck that trend. “Which takes this from a sizing issue to an access issue.”
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“It’s still a challenge for plus size women to find technical outerwear that fits,” Davis said in an email.
And yet according to at least one study, most women wear size 16-18, which corresponds to a women’s size 2X. Kelly Davis, the director of research for the Outdoor Industry Association, noted that many manufacturers of outdoor and athletic gear produce lines in sizes XS to XL. The outdoor industry is adjusting its scope, but change is slow in coming. “It’s just about challenging the status quo of how we perceive and have learned what our outdoor culture is.” “I don’t actually believe in any of us being unlikely,” Bruso, 40, said. Now the account has nearly 150,000 followers and the group has become a full-time job for the Oregon-based Bruso, who advises companies wanting to break into alternative markets and leads hikes around the country. That “caught on like wildfire,” she said. It started as an Instagram account highlighting the outdoor experiences of Black, Indigenous and people of color and those in LGBTQ communities. Outdoor recreation-oriented social media feeds were saturated with a kind of “one-note, good-vibes-only” imagery when Jenny Bruso picked up the hiking, and that’s what drove her to found Unlikely Hikers six years ago. So anytime I go hiking, I know I’m going to be the only one like me.” And I don’t often see other trans hikers out and about. There’s a lot of influencer pressure to have the gear, look a certain way, be super fit. Like especially, I think within my age group and the 20s and 30s, there’s a lot of competition. “I think outdoor industry spaces are not always the most welcoming to LGBT people, and it can be really intimidating. “I consider myself an unlikely hiker,” said South Salt Lake City’s August McCann, a participant in Saturday’s hike who uses they/them pronouns. Misfits compared to the norm promoted by the outdoor recreation industry, many had never previously felt comfortable joining a group hike. (Gregory Mountain Products) A mix of people join an Unlikely Hikers outing at Dimple Dell Recreation Area in Sandy on Saturday, Oct. Yet in an outdoors culture that has historically been portrayed as being cis, white, fit, competitive and financially well-off, they feel like misfits. In many ways, they represent average Americans. That group was Unlikely Hikers, but the name was a misnomer. Yet, last Saturday she found herself at the Wrangler Trailhead at Dimple Dell Regional Park surrounded by more than a dozen strangers who, like her, had set aside their anxieties so they could take the first step toward finding a hiking community that would accept them without judgment.
Despite their messages of inclusivity, she worries she’d be judged or left behind. Not even organizations like Fat Girls Hiking and Slow Hikers Unite Utah, both of which she follows on social media, have been able to sway her. Still, an aversion to those barbs has kept Stowers away from group hikes. It might be a little slower, but I’m going to get there, too.’” My body’s doing the same thing your body’s doing. She said people give her a surprised look and then say, “‘Oh, you’re doing great!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I know. “I deal with a lot of unsolicited feedback from people because I’m in a larger body,” the 38-year-old from Provo said. Stowers self-identifies as fat, and she said she has to put up with that kind of discomfort on the trails far more often than blisters or bee stings. Nothing washes away her stress better than moving her body through nature.īut people’s reaction to the nature of the way her body moves can also cause her stress, particularly when others comment on it or give her disapproving glances.
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