Armida Huerta Adventure Fund

08/21/2026

Adventure should be accessible to everyone. 🌈🏔️🚲

The Armida Huerta Adventure Fund is helping make that possible by providing scholarships for LGBTQ+ individuals and BIPOC women who want to experience the outdoors through packrafting or bikepacking.

Scholarship recipients can use the funding to take a trip with any packrafting or bikepacking outfitter—creating an opportunity to explore, challenge yourself, build community, and experience the freedom that comes with adventure.

If you've ever thought, “I’d love to do something like that, but it feels out of reach,” this could be your opportunity.

💚 LGBTQ+ adventurers and BIPOC women: consider applying.
💚 Know someone who should apply? Please share this post with them.

Learn more and apply: Armida Huerta Adventure Fund

Adventure is for all of us. ✨

08/04/2026

We've been giving out a bunch of scholarships this year and there's still room for more. Find your perfect trip and fill out an application and see if we can make the magic happen!

Adventure Without Barriers Providing full and partial scholarships to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Adventurers Dismantling financial barriers to bikepacking and packrafting! WHY THE ARMIDA HUERTA ADVENTURE FUND? For too long, the ‘great outdoors’ has been defined by a narrow culture of exclusivity. High gea...

07/22/2026

06/17/2026

Today is the day to apply for a scholarship to go packrafting or bikepacking this year! We'd love to support your outdoor adventure dreams. Please share with your friends too.

Adventure Without Barriers Providing full and partial scholarships to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Adventurers Dismantling financial barriers to bikepacking and packrafting! WHY THE ARMIDA HUERTA ADVENTURE FUND? For too long, the ‘great outdoors’ has been defined by a narrow culture of exclusivity. High gea...

06/03/2026

The outdoors belongs to everyone, and this month, we are celebrating the vibrant community of LGBTQ+ adventurers who inspire us to live authentically, both on and off the water!

04/15/2026

Meet our board president, Tami Graham! She and Lizzy Scully started the Armida Huerta Adventure Fund and our dearly departed Armida was her life-partner when she passed.

Tami has spent her career working with and for nonprofit organizations, including KSUT Public Radio, where she has been the executive director since 2015. She had a successful nonprofit consulting practice from 2001-2015, and is a professional mediator and facilitator. Graham was awarded Woman of the Year at Fort Lewis College in 1996 for her work at the helm of KDUR Community Radio. She served for 6 years as an appointee of Governor Polis to the Colorado Creative Industries board. She is a fifth-generation Coloradoan and lives just north of Mancos, Colorado. She spends her time adventuring in the mountains, rivers, and deserts throughout the Four Corners region and has summited over 45 of Colorado's 14,000-foot+ peaks. Tami's life-partner was Armida Huerta, and she currently serves as the co-founder and President of the Armida Huerta Adventure Fund.

03/27/2026

We're starting a little feature this spring to introduce the board of the Armida Huerta Adventure Fund.

Our first introduction is Colette “Hari Karan”. She immigrated to USA in 2013 from Trinidad & Tobago. and is a 2nd Generation Yogi and a direct descendant of the indigenous Carib and Arawak tribes of the West Indies. She happily resides in the Mancos Valley of Southwest Colorado, and is passionate about helping people achieve a happy and healthy balance in life which goes hand in hand with helping the underserved communities have access to outdoor activities. Grateful to have been a recipient of one of the scholarships awarded in 2025, she is excited to now be a part of helping to realize the full potential of the Armida Huerta Fund. If you see her around, say hello and ask her about what the Armida Huerta Adventure Fund is doing

03/02/2026

Last night, The Ballad of Madelyne and Therese at the Durango Arts Center was a performance to remember! Thank you The Ballad of Madelyne & Therese with Rachel Garlin and Rachel Garlin for sharing your work with us and taking us on the journey of love and longing. (https://www.facebook.com/rachel.garlin.7)

Big thanks to everyone who attended. We appreciate your support of the Armida Huerta Adventure Fund. Thank you for your gracious presence.

And thanks also to the Durango Arts Center and to Beth and the team for such professional support. And of course our sound person Doug Eagle get our thanks as well.

02/27/2026

This Sunday! March 1 at 7pm. Come support this wonderful organization.

02/18/2026

In 2025, the Armida Huerta Adventure Fund (AHAF) became it's own 501c3 nonprofit organization. (Thank you Mancos Valley Resources for being our fiduciary and helping us get launched!) We also sent 14 folks on great adventures, hired a part time administrator, and built a fabulous board of directors!

On Sunday, March 1, we are hosting a special night with Rachel Garlin and friends at the Durango Arts Center to raise funds for AHAF. Please join us and help us grow even more in 2026. Our goal is to double the number of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people we can send on life changing adventures.

https://www.facebook.com/events/934083835951669