In March, Emily Ford became the first woman to complete Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail in Winter. She’s also become an unintentional ambassador of the outdoor industry’s quest for inclusivity.

GRAND MARAIS — Emily Ford ended her roughly 200-mile ski-snowshoe-hiking trek across the top of Minnesota a day early and with a last-minute diversion due to open water on the Pigeon River.

Emily Ford with part of her sled dog team used last winter in Alaskan races. Ford qualified for the 2025 Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome and is now trying to raise the money needed to compete ...

EMILY FORD: Yep, what's next is we have one more race that I'm helping handle for Anna. And then I had the opportunity to do my own race. I'll be doing the Goose Bay 150. So wish me luck during that.

Emily Ford, Diggins finish 1,136-mile trek across Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail After 69 days on the trail, Ford becomes only the second person on record to complete a winter thru-hike of the trail.

When Emily Ford started her winter thru-hike on the Ice Age Trail on Dec. 28, she didn't set out to make history or increase her Instagram follower count.

Emily Ford is @EmilyonTrail on Instagram. Perhaps, @EmilyonTour is a better handle these days. Ford famously — compellingly — thru-hiked the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin last winter.

The 1,136 mile hike made Emily Ford the first woman to thru-hike the trail during winter. She said history was made, unintentionally.

DULUTH - Emily Ford walks between several of the Glensheen Historic Estate's 46 garden beds. As her boots drag along the grass, wet from the morning rain, she pauses in front of the roses.

Outdoors Duluth’s Emily Ford and her sled dogs notch Iditarod finish The Duluth-based musher was among the fastest rookies covering 1,128 miles across Alaska. She came in 18th. By Bob Timmons ...

Emily Ford, the 34-year-old native of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, who now calls Duluth home, spent 13 days mushing her dogs along the Yukon River in Alaska in this year's Iditarod race. Ford says it ...