About the Founder

Nechumah Getz

I'm Nechumah Getz and I built Better Outside Together because I know what it feels like to need community. After more than 25 years in leadership roles, including serving as a COO at three nonprofits, I found myself navigating an empty nest, two moves to remote military bases, menopause, and two layoffs in two years. All at the same time. I already knew what being outside with other women could do because I had built that community before.

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Wilderness First Responder emergency medical service badge with green and yellow colors.
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Personal Fun Facts

I learned to rock climb at 50 and it turns out I love it. If that tells you anything about how I feel about midlife, you're in the right place.

During COVID I organized groups of women who went on weekly hikes. Those weekly walks had become something I counted on, a source of connection and belonging that I didn't fully appreciate until it was gone. There is something about moving your body in fresh air alongside other women that opens up the kind of honest conversations that are hard to have anywhere else. When I moved, I left it behind. That experience, combined with a lifelong love of hiking and years of knowing firsthand what movement outdoors can do for your body and your mind, is what Better Outside Together is built on. Midlife doesn't come with built-in community. If we want it, we have to create it. So I did.

Better Outside Together is for women in midlife who are ready to move their bodies, build real friendships, and make the most of this chapter. You don't have to do this alone.

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About the Hiking Community

  • To bring women in midlife together in nature to build connection, strength, and shared experience. This is not about competition or performance. It is about showing up for yourself and for the women beside you in this chapter of life.

  • Better Outside Together is built specifically for women in midlife, which means everything about the experience, the pace, the group size, the conversation, and the culture, is designed with this stage of life in mind. Hikes are intentionally small so real conversation can happen. Hikes are led by experienced, personally vetted guides who are there to make sure you feel safe, supported, and glad you came. And this is not just a hiking club. It is a community that extends beyond the trail, built around the belief that the connections you build now shape how you live in the decades ahead.

  • You can expect to move your body on a real hike, at a level you choose, with a small group of women who are navigating the same chapter of life. You can expect to be welcomed exactly as you are, no matter your fitness level or experience outdoors. You can expect real conversation, fresh air, and to leave feeling like you did something that mattered. Most women are surprised by how quickly they feel at home and how strong they feel when they are done.

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