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Encouraging a more inclusive and equitable outdoor community while celebrating and representing Black motherhood in the midst of a dominant culture. Join me here.

Shifting outdoor culture. Inspiring joy + liberation.

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Here to help you find your way outside 🌿
🏕️ Black motherhood in the outdoors
🍄‍🟫 30 minutes OUTSIDE everyday
📍 PNW 💌: shecolorsnature@gmail

3 generations of Black outdoorists ✊🏾 Who is she? 3 generations of Black outdoorists ✊🏾

Who is she? 🫣 No on tag her or she may backslide.

I literally used to have to persuade my mom to come along with us on adventures by calling our hikes, walks in nature. Which they are! Language can be super intimidating for melanated groups of people. I’m proud of how far she has come, it’s hard not to be stuck in your ways and be open to trying new things.

Encouraging my mom to see the outdoors the way I do has been a work in progress. We aren’t finished yet - but if I get her on a good day she will hike with us, camp with us - she’s even backpacked in Stehekin, Washington with us! 👏🏾🌼🥾 

The outdoors is for everyone. It’s not limited to an entire people group. Pre colonization this is what our people were doing. We are meant to be in connection to nature, our people have been here before - it’s the reconnection to Land that I’m interested in as my legacy. Paying it forward and back 🌲🌍🌳

Hiking = walking in nature 🤎 
I hope you find your way outside today!

Do you feel comfortable hiking? Would you cross this creek with us?

#BlackPeopleHike #DiversifyOutdoors #BlackOutdoors #PatagoniaBlack #BlackMomsHike
New bike day 🥳🤘🏾🚵🏾‍♀️ Smiles for miles in @reima New bike day 🥳🤘🏾🚵🏾‍♀️ 

Smiles for miles in @reimanorthamerica cooling clothing and barefoot shoes. Even though the temps are rising, we are still outside. Summer is right around the corner and I am so excited for all of my kids to finally have decent bikes to hit the trails with! More days like this please 🤎

Kids wearing:

🥾: Toddler ReimaTec Barefoot Shoes (Tepastelu)
👕: Kids UPF 50+ T-Shirt (Ikioma) 
🩳: Kids UPF 50+ Shorts (Taskuun)
👚: Kids Cooling Hoodie (Tuuletin) 

Check the link in my bio for the new summer drop that’s bound to keep you and your kids outdoors longer. Use code shecolors15 at check out for 15% off!!

now go play outside 🤎🌼✨

#Reima
#ReimaPartner
FINAL WEEK OF THE CHALLENGE 🚨 We are in the home FINAL WEEK OF THE CHALLENGE 🚨

We are in the home stretch of MY #WeColorNature2026 10 WEEK SPRING HIKE CHALLENGE!! Ending June 21, 2026 - the first day of Summer (everyone’s favorite girl) ☀️🍉🌻

Steal my schedule this week for getting outside. Everyday for 30 minutes - with one day dedicated to a hike 👏🏾🥾 Micro adventures, connecting to nature, accessible ways of getting outside no matter who you are or where you live! LET’S GET OUTSIDE! 

After this week if you accepted my challenge you:

✔️ Went on 10 hikes. 1 each week over the course of 10 weeks

✔️Went outside everyday for 30 minutes or more in the past 10 weeks 

✔️ Created a habit of getting outside - the best habit of all time for your mental, physical and emotional wellbeing

✔️ Had the most OUTSIDE SPRING of your life!!

ALMOST THERE… final stretch! Let’s finish strong. I’m in it with you. ONE WEEK LEFT. 

See you out there 👋🏾

#shecolorsnature #diversifyoutdoors #blackoutdoors #springhikechallenge hike challenge
ON TUESDAY’S WE HIKE {and bike} With just 2 weeks ON TUESDAY’S WE HIKE {and bike}

With just 2 weeks left in my 10 WEEK SPRING HIKE CHALLENGE - he is cruising on his feet and bike anywhere between 2-3 miles with smiles!! On this trail he did some pretty hard things! Love to see him pushing the limits a bit, communicating well and regulating his emotions while going with the flow. Life is better outside 🫶🏾🌿🏃🏾‍♀️🚵🏽

We hope you find your way outside today! 

Thanks for watching our hike series until the end, the videos are a bit longer than normal - but so worth it! I think my favorite moment happens at 1:59. We can do hard things 🤘🏾

My little guy is wearing @reimanorthamerica shirt and shoes! 🥾 Tepastelu - Toddler ReimaTec Waterproof Barefoot Shoes. Some colors on sale now. Use code shecolors15 for 15% off too!

Thank you @u.s.forestservice 🤎

#WeColorNature2026 #HikeChallenge #AllKidsBike #SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors
Protect hair. Get outside 🌼 Our hair was made for Protect hair. Get outside 🌼

Our hair was made for wild adventures!

Don’t let your hair be the reason you don’t reconnect with the outdoors. Take it from me. Growing up I had a relaxer and I let that dictate way too much of my time outside with my friends..

Summer is for protective styles, try these:

✊🏾 Twists - three strand twists last longest for me!

✊🏾 Braids {corn rows, french, or free flowing}

✊🏾 All types and sizes of Locs {long term option}

I am mine and my daughter’s hair stylist because we live rurally. Sometimes my mom helps too! My hair won’t hold me back. It will never be the reason I stay behind on an adventure, or out of the water EVER AGAIN. I will be out here, braided, twisted - or rockin my silk scarf.

Black girl, your hair was made for wild adventures 🌿

🧢 @birdcollective 

#SheColorsNature #BlackOutdoors #DiversifyOutdoors #ForBlackGirls #ProtectiveStyles
#TeamBronco_Ambassador and our adventures to Tacom #TeamBronco_Ambassador and our adventures to Tacoma Land. We took a bit of a side quest to scope out some campsites we want to get to later this Summer! My @fordbronco is the most dependable and capable car I’ve ever had!

Anyone else have the countdown to summer vacation on yet? Y’all know I do! 🙋🏾‍♀️🌞🌊🚙 

Disclaimer✨2025 Bronco® Big Bend® model with optional equipment, available Ford accessories, and extra-cost color option shown. When properly equipped. Max towing varies based on cargo, vehicle configuration, accessories, and number of passengers.
Building a habit of getting outside – brick by bri Building a habit of getting outside - brick by brick

🗓️ Steal my schedule for this week!

ROLE CALL ☎️ Who’s still working with me on this 10 week spring hike challenge?! If so, this is what we’ve been up to (jump in any time 😉)..

✔️ Hike one day a week for the next 3 weeks leading up to the first day of Summer! Ends June 21st

✔️ Get intentional time outside every day for atleast 30 minutes (think micro adventures, nature dilly dallying, and connecting with the land)

✔️ Post about it & share with the community #WeColorNature2026 and tag @she_colorsnature 

We are building a habit of getting outside. One day at a time. I’m in it with you!! 7 weeks down, ONLY 3 more to go!!! 🫶🏾

👋🏾 Hey, hi there - Chelsea Murphy here mom of 3 kids on a mission to create a more inclusive and diverse outdoors for all of US. We’re outside - so make sure you are following along!
This Spring I took an edible nature walk 🌿 📍On P’S This Spring I took an edible nature walk 🌿
📍On P’Squosa ancestral homelands 

The next day out I was able to identify elm - it’s growing everywhere! The seeds are a high source of protein, tasty by the handful or sprinkled over a salad. 🌿✨ 

This walking workshop I took changed the way I look at so called “weeds” and sparked a new way of connecting to the land for me! Indigenous people get it right, living in reciprocity with the land - giving and taking respectfully is what I fully felt in this moment. I felt the branches of this elm say “wow, thanks for noticing me and sharing my value with your son”. It’s branches brushing my neck and giving me a hug in appreciation 🫶🏾

I follow @blackforager for her wisdom, but would love to know if anyone knows an Indigenous Northwest friend that shares about edibles and medicinals? Understanding too why this information would be gate kept and respect that fully. Not all of us deserve access to this knowledge 🤎

Have you been curious about local edible plants and medicinals as a part of your time outside? What have you discovered? Like birding, another slippery slope I’m happy to succumb to!

I hope you find your way outside all weekend 🌳🌞

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors #BlackMomsHike #EdiblePlants #ElmTrees
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