Meet your Hosts
Meet the dynamic duo behind the Women's Adventure Retreats, two adventurous sisters who are turning their love for adventure into a local business. With a shared passion for outdoor escapades, they are dedicated to providing top-notch experiences and opportunities to anyone wanting to experience something new!
Samantha
Samantha is an adventurous 24 year old who private pilot with float and glider ratings. Having already graduated from UBC with a geography degree focusing on environmental and sustainability and computations systems, Samantha is an active private pilot with both floatplane and glider endorsements, and is currently towards both her commercial pilot’s license and real-estate license.
When she’s not at home piloting a floatplane into a remote alpine lake, taking to the skies by paraglider or touching down in an exciting visit to a new country, Samantha is
always down for a hike. She is eager to explore more of this beautiful world we live in.
Ask her about aerobatic flying in Argentina, drinking a shot with a human toe in it, her various flying expeditions, including ferrying a float plane across Canada, or any of her
many adventures, some of which she documents on her instagram account with over
130k+ followers @airtimewithsam.
An accomplished athlete, Samantha’s energy and enthusiasm motivates people on any team she is on to just try harder. Soccer is her sport of choice, and she has kicked the ball around in friendly play with kids in far flung places such as Ecuador, India and Tanzania.
Sydney
Sydney is 21-year-old private pilot with float and glider ratings. She is currently a student at UVic, studying physics at UVic. She’s an active private pilot
with floatplane and glider endorsements, and but is keen to follow her sister in becoming
a commercial pilot.
Being the curious person she is, Sydney is always looking to learn more, no matter the subject. As for her adventures, ask her about Scuba diving in Honduras, glider aerobatics
in Chile, learning to paraglide, her sporting trip to Ukraine or her swim in the amazon
river. She’s visited over 35 countries and counting.
She is a whirl-wind of energy and has been active in soccer, field hockey, snow-sports and is a black belt in Shotokan
Karate, – a sport she has practiced for over 10 years and has competed in nationally and internationally. Sydney’s an advanced open water scuba diver, loves paragliding in the
spectacular mountains around Pemberton. She’s recently took up climbing and is always down to go bouldering!
