Women’s Outdoor Weekend
The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation encourages all women to expand and strengthen their outdoor skills and knowledge by joining us for a Women’s Outdoor Weekend (WOW)! This is an opportunity to learn new skills, try your hand at a variety of wilderness activities and increase your outdoor confidence through activities like shooting (archery and rifle), knife skills, fishing and filleting, survival skills, plant and animal identification, fire building, canoeing and much more.
Joined by our friendly experienced staff and other adventure-seeking women out at Hannin Creek Education & Research Centre at Candle Lake, this is a weekend you won’t want to miss, and one you won’t soon forget!
2026 WOMEN’S OUTDOOR WEEKEND DATES:
Winter Women’s Outdoor Weekend – March 27-29, 2026
Spring Women’s Outdoor Weekend – June 5-7, 2026
Fall Women’s Outdoor Weekend – September 25-27, 2026
The Winter WOW Registration Form can be found here. To register, please complete the registration form and submit to sask.wildlife@swf.sk.ca. To join our waitlist for Spring or Fall WOW, please email Courtney Devins at cdevins@swf.sk.ca.
Cost for WOW is $275 for SWF members, and $300 for non-members. Payment can be made via cash, credit card, debit card, cheque, or e-transfer.
For more information on our Women’s Outdoor Weekend, contact the SWF Central Office at 306-692-8812 or sask.wildlife@swf.sk.ca.
https://swf.sk.ca/programs/womens-outdoor-weekend/
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Becoming an Outdoors Woman
This is a wonderful camp for women to experience the great outdoors and take home some great skills they learned. The camps are capped at 20 women, to give them more one on one attention. The women range in age from 18 to 65+ and everyone gets along like best friends!! It will be a busy four days. When the women arrive on Tuesday evening, they will be assigned to their cabins, then shown around the facility. An interactive game will take place around the campfire to introduce and learn a little bit about everyone. The next morning the women were ready to start their activity packed days.
The instructors are very understanding, respectful, and compassionate to the women’s needs, as some of them can be apprehensive about trying new activities. The women will enjoy activities like canoeing, kayaking, lean to building, trailer backing-up, GPS/geo-caching, quadding, and an edible plants course. Archery women will learn to shoot from a tree stand as well as at 3D targets.
The instructors will be kept busy teaching restricted and non-restricted firearms, and the boat safety courses. The women will also be interactive in shotgun (skeet shooting), black powder, pistol, rifle and big bore guns.
There will be hands on interaction with the outdoor cooking course and a full meal of chicken and rice, cornmeal and then a wonderful dessert of Pineapple Upside Down Cake and Cherry Choc. All the cooking will be done in cast iron pots with briquettes underneath for cooking. While the food is cooking the women will head into the bush to gather some moss from trees, birch bark and small twigs. Then with their fire flints, which they will receive in their registration bags, they learn the basics of fire starting.
The women will attend the fish cleaning course, and even try to make a fillet or two, but they will all enjoy the fish fry later that evening.
Other activities will include making walking sticks, soap stone carving and rope making. A silent auction will run the whole four days with lots of wonderful fun items too bid on, as well as BOW merchandise available. This is an effort to help pay for expenses.