Her Wild Life Expeditions

Name: Her Wild Life Expeditions
Address: 400 W South Boulder Road Ste 2500, Lafayette, CO, 80026, US
Telephone: +18889276656

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Her Wild Life Expeditions

Wildlife Expeditions Led by Women for Women.

We are a welcoming space for wildlife-loving women to embark on solo or group trips into authentic, unforgettable adventures that ignite the explorer in all of us.

08/26/2026

It's officially happening. This week, Journey North confirmed the first fall roost reports of the season. Monarchs clustering in trees in Minnesota, the earliest sign that the migration south has begun.

Right now, the super generation of monarchs are starting an epic migration south. The destination? Oyamel fir forests on mountaintops in central Mexico.

In January, Her Wild Life women will meet monarchs at the finish line.

Only 2 spots left on this year's Monarchs of Mexico expedition in January 2027.

08/20/2026

Yellowstone offers many different kinds of wild, all in one trip.

Some mornings may be spent scanning for elk. Others, glassing hillsides for bears, or watching ravens come in close for incredible viewing. And then there are moments that are focused on the park's geothermal wonders — no binoculars, no searching — just standing in front of a geothermal feature that's been doing exactly this for thousands of years.

That's the range of a Yellowstone expedition. Megafauna and mineral-blue pools. Patience and awe. Some moments come from searching. Some come from just standing still long enough to notice what's already in front of you.

This is what we mean when we say every Her Wild Life day is different. You show up for the wildlife. You leave remembering the whole trip — the steam rising off the basin, the raven that wouldn't leave, the elk, the wolves and the bears that finally stepped out into full view

A few spots remain on this year's Yellowstone expedition. Join us!

08/14/2026

We were looking for great gray owls. What we found was something completely unexpected.

Moving quietly through the forest, we saw him on full display. We froze, thinking we'd gotten too close to his favorite drumming favorite log. But he wasn't displaying for us.

Up above in a nearby tree, a female was nonchalantly watching from a branch. He was putting on the show for her, not us.

No one else was there. No other vehicles, no other groups, no sounds other than our quiet breaths. A moment that belonged entirely to us.

This is what we chase on Her Wild Life trips — not just the wildlife on the checklist, but the sightings you can't plan for. The ones that show up because you slowed down enough to notice them. The ones you'll still be talking about years from now.

You never know what you'll find when you're looking for something else.

Thank you to for the beautiful stills from this encounter. There are still a few spots left on our October 2026 Her Wild Life trip to Yellowstone.

08/13/2026

Some sightings you chase for hours. This one took a half-block walk from the hotel.

We'd already had a full day in the park — a great one. Back in town, settled in for the evening, when the call came: "Get outside. Now." No van, no gear check, no drive. Just out the door and down the block.

And there she was. Mom, already in a tree eating fruit. Cubs nearby, doing the same. We stood on the sidewalk and watched a bear family go about their evening for the better part of an hour. One of the best hours of the trip.

This is the thing about Yellowstone in late fall — the wild isn't confined to the backcountry. Bears are deep in hyperphagia this time of year, packing on weight before den season, which means they're moving through town edges and roadsides as much as remote meadows. You can spend all day looking for a sighting in the park, and then it finds you on the walk back to your room.

A few spots remain on this year's Her Wild Life Yellowstone expedition. Is this your Yellowstone year? 🐻

Thank you to Julie Price for these incredible images!

07/31/2026

Yellowstone in late October is a different park entirely.

The crowds are gone. The bison are deep in their rut recovery, moving slow and steady across morning frost-covered meadows. The air smells like snow before it falls. And somewhere out there, wolves are wandering.

There's still time for our Her Wild Yellowstone expedition this season. Small group, two expert guides, awesome safari van, and private rooms included. If you've been waiting for a sign, this is it.

07/20/2026

Four women. One alpine trail. Plenty of patience.

Saturday morning, I took three incredible women above treeline in Rocky Mountain National Park to say thank you — all three supported this year's Denver Audubon Bird-a-thon, and we wanted to celebrate them with a day trip built around the birds they love.

Ptarmigan don't make it easy. They're masters of crypsis — camouflage so good it borders on magic. We searched and searched, glassing lichen-covered boulder after lichen-covered boulder. Two individuals spotted early, and then they disappeared as fast as they'd appeared. Gone.

As we made our way back to the trailhead, we heard his call. Then we saw him fly down the ridge and land — right behind a lichen-covered boulder, blending in like just like we expected. Success!

Bonus sightings along the way: yellow-bellied marmot, dusky grouse, coyote, pika, raven, and mule deer. Not a bad day!

This is what a Her Wild Life morning looks like — small group, big payoff, and women who show up for each other and for conservation. Cheers!

— Sheridan, Founder, Her Wild Life Expeditions

(And to the fellow hiker we met along the trail also hunting for ptarmigan — congrats on your lifer! Great to share the trail with you.)

Denver Audubon

07/14/2026

July 14, 1960.

A 26-year-old woman steps into the forest at Gombe with no degree, no funding trail to speak of, and no one who believed a woman could do serious field science. She spent months just sitting, watching, waiting for the chimps to trust her enough to get close.

What she found rewrote what we thought we knew about being human. Chimps making tools. Chimps with personalities, grief, politics, love. Jane proved that patience, humility, and showing up every single day is science.

If I could pick one person, living or gone, to spend a single day in the field with, it's her. Hands down. No contest.

Today is World Chimpanzee Day, and we're celebrating the woman who started it all, and days in the field with animals who show us something new every time we show up. All it takes is sitting, watching and waiting.

👇 Tell us — whose work inspires you most?

07/08/2026

What does it actually take to create more space for women in wildlife and conservation? 🌿

Our founder Sheridan Samano sat down with Christine Winebrenner Irick on the Soul of Travel Podcast recently — and this conversation goes places we rarely get to go in a caption.

Sheridan talks about what it means to follow a passion for creating opportunities for women not just as travelers, but as guides, leaders, and voices in the wildlife and birding space. About how gender disparities in conservation and tourism don't shift on their own. They shift because someone decides to show up, set an example, and open a door.

That is the beating heart of Her Wild Life Expeditions. Not just women in wild places, but women shaping what those places look like, who leads in them, and who gets to belong there.

This one is for every woman who has ever felt like a guest in a space she should have been leading.
Link to listen: https://www.souloftravelpodcast.com/season-7/episode-259-sheridan-samano🎧

Know a woman who should be guiding in this space? Tag her. 👇

06/25/2026

There's an order to this chaos, and our founder got to witness it firsthand.

Sheridan Samano is in this video, walking to a clay lick near the Tambopata River, one of the best places on Earth for parrot and macaw diversity.

What looks like pure pandemonium at the lick is actually choreographed. On this day, blue-headed parrots arrived first, cautious and watchful, testing the clay face before fully committing.

Then came the macaws. Three different species. Color upon color.

This is one of countless reasons we're already planning a Her Wild Life expedition to Peru in November 2027.

Moments like this don't need to stay rare. They need to be shared — with women ready to witness something this wild, this unscripted, this alive.

Want to see this in person? Comment 'PERU' and we'll send you the details as soon as the November 2027 expedition opens. 👇

06/17/2026

There is a particular kind of stillness that settles over you when wild animals simply allow you to be near. 🦦

During an early morning outing to an oxbow lake deep in the Tambopata, a family of giant river otters arrived for breakfast. Their menu — piranhas, lots of them.

At up to six feet long, giant river otters are the largest otter species on Earth.

Increasingly rare across much of their range, they are thriving here in Tambopata. This family group was unhurried enough in our quiet presence that we simply drifted alongside them and watched.

No agenda. No checklist. Just the sound of the lake, the rustle of birds in the trees nearby, and these extraordinary animals going about their morning.

That feeling of being immersed in nature is what Her Wild Life expeditions are built around.

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Lafayette, CO
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