SAMMAMISH, Wash. — What started as one mom’s frustration with her sons’ sports world has grown into a movement helping women carve out their place on skateboards, snowboards, wake surfboards and any other action sport you can think of.

“I’m the mom of three boys and a single mom of three boys and so I was out with my boys doing all the things that boys like to do and I like to do," said Pam Miller. “So we’re climbing, we’re hiking, mountain biking and stuff and as we were doing those things I realized there was no other girls around.”

It was nearly 20 years ago that Miller noticed something was missing. While raising her three boys, she realized adventure sports were wide open for them but closed off for girls. At skateboarding events, women were rarely invited, welcomed, or even given e

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