Thomasina is also a mother (her daughter Cedar travels around with her), a writer, a doula, sews and sells clothing, shopping bags, and other crafts, and works as a photographer.
[2] Pidgeon started climbing near Flatrock in her early 20s on a trip home to her native Newfoundland.
With the money she'd saved she got a working visa and went on a year-and-a-half long trip to Wales, Ireland, parts of Eastern Europe, and Morocco.
She returned to Canada, moved to Kelowna, and began studying sciences at Okanagan University College.
She began spending much of her time outside on the boulders at the base of the world-famous granite monolith "The Chief" in Squamish, BC.
In her first decade of climbing Pidgeon quickly became one of the most progressive female boulderers in the world, opening the doors to the harder grades by making First Female Ascents (FFAs, not to be confused with the traditional usage of FFA in climbing)[4] of many double digit problems.
For a full list of Pidgeon's bouldering and route ascents search for her scorecard on climbing ranking site 8a.nu.