Fuller gave up teaching to become a journalist like her father, an editor of several Tacoma newspapers, with whom she found her first reporting job as the first female reporter for the Tacoma Ledger. Following her successful ascent of Mount Rainier, she was given a column titled Mountain Murmurs in which she covered mountaineering social events near Paradise, Washington and accounts by earlier climbers of Rainier. She also played a significant role in developing the Pacific Northwest climbing community: she helped to found the Washington Alpine Club in 1891, the Tacoma Alpine Club in 1893, and the Mazamas mountaineering club in Portland, Oregon in 1894.