New Membership Space with Expanded Leadership Launches!
Leaders of Women Who Ski: Jena Sabatini (left) our new Chief Experience Officer, and me, Genevieve, at the Girl Winter Film Tour in Bozeman, Montana, recently. We enjoyed watching the six featured films getting stoked for ski season while brainstorming ideas for our Women Who Ski community.
November 12, 2025: As the founder of this incredible Women Who Ski community, I’m excited to share that I’m partnering with a friend to launch our own Women Who Ski Membership Community in a private, secure space on an app, away from social media platforms that are wrought with privacy issues and prey for spammers and bots. So Women Who Ski Chat Groups are no longer on WhatsApp this season.
I met Jena Sabatini (pronounced Gina), a fellow Montanan, at last season’s Official Women Who Ski trip to Big Sky Resort. She’s a fantastic expert skier with a love for the women’s outdoor community. Let’s welcome her to the new role of CEO - Chief Experience Officer. Read a special hello note from Jena below.
Together, we are launching a new online community for paying Women Who Ski members in the Mighty Networks app starting with the 2025 / 2026 ski season. Mighty Networks is so easy to learn and use, and has exciting features to help members interact with others, including the ability to schedule in-person meet ups. This new platform offers more than the ability to connect in a chat group. As you’ll see by the screenshot below, it’s designed to make interactions with like-minded women in the ski and snowboard community much easier by suggesting members with the similar interests, abilities, and pace. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg on what’s available to us.
Screenshot of the members section of our private Women Who Ski community space on the Mighty Networks platform. You can see at a glance everyone so far signed up in our community.
Note from Jena Sabatini, CEO of Women Who Ski:
Hi there! I’m excited to join Women Who Ski as Chief Experience Officer. This is a fancy way of saying I’m the member who volunteered to see if we can launch this new community/app as a better way to connect women who have a love of skiing with one another to enjoy some incredibly fun and memorable experiences along the way. I’m working to create the space with ideas that allow for connection, but it will be up to us as members to engage and show up for each other. If you’re not yet a paying member for the 2025 / 2026 season, I encourage you to sign up now as a Founding Member at 50% off.
How will we make all this excitement happen and what could be on the horizon for us? Let’s begin by talking about the app. First step after you join, is to completely fill out your profile and join a regional group. When you do, the app will show you members with whom you share similarities. What a great way to spark conversations!
Besides your regional group, start checking in on the section titled Slope Stories and Spotlights. This is the main membership area where we’ll connect with weekly activities and share stories, pictures, and knowledge around a particular topic. We’ll also schedule livestreams to help bring this area to life. Watch for questions and polls that will help determine what those activities and topics will be. We’re going to start with Snowscape Sundays where we each can share a favorite winter photo and the story behind it.
The app will also facilitate our IRL (in real life) connections. If you have leadership or organizational skills, consider taking the lead by creating a Meet Up in your regional group. We call meet up organizers a "Women Who Ski Meet Up Maven." Invite others to ski with you. You can also plan a social meet up on mountain, or back home as a mixer to meet potential ski buddies. This awesome tool lets you pick the location, date and time, add a description, and keeps track of RSVPs. All the conversation related to this meet up will be in one place.
Another section you’ll want to follow is our Ski Trips & Getaways. Only members can see these trips and attend. Since my background is in travel, I plan to grow these opportunities. Expect international trips, smaller curated trips including some for Backcountry and Cross-Country enthusiasts, and weekend getaways where we take advantage of hot deals or chase powder.
I have tons of ideas but would like to hear your thoughts too. Send me an email at ceo@womenwhoski.org and let's start planning to have our best year ever!
Sign up now here to start connecting with a new ski buddy or two.
Lastly, if you’re wondering how this compares to our Facebook community where we now have nearly 18,000 ladies who ski, snowboard, backcountry and cross country ski across the globe, I’ve listed out the benefits here on our Membership page. The trend we are seeing is that more and more of us prefer not to engage on Facebook due to rampant privacy issues and invasion of fake accounts. Hardly anyone shows their face in their profile photo and many people use a made-up or partial version of their name.
Not so in our private community. The goal is transparency and authenticity so when you schedule an in-person meet up, you know who you are meeting. Or, when you’re interacting with another member online, you can see her face and feel comfortable with whom you are conversing.
Our Facebook Group will continue to be a place to go for advice and industry news from women around the world. We will still only approve women to the Facebook Group who agree to our rules and code of conduct, however, we can't fully police the authenticity of the members. Our new private community on the Mighty Networks App allows us to go back to the best of what social media originally offered, the ability to have authentic connections with real people you’d like to get to know and be friends with. I look forward to seeing you in our new community.