Category: Independent Challenges

The New Year is a great time for a new personal challenge. This year Climate Ride is offering a record ten physically challenging events across the country, including one in Southeast Asia! How can one say "NO" to signing up for a new personal challenge while taking direct action to grow the sustainability movement at the same time?!

Many people around the world tuned in last week to the Paris Climate Conference, shared stories and ideas, and raised their voices against climate change. Like others who raised their voices, Tina Hilding, temporarily living in Norway, just finished running an epic 350 miles over two and a half months in support for 350.org and the Paris Climate Conference.

The following is an account by Reese Wells, a member of the Keys to Freeze group that rode from the Florida Keys to the tip of Alaska this year as part of Climate Ride’s Independent Challenge program. Two months removed, lessons are still being learned, and the road still beckons. The following is Reese’s reflection […]

Inspired by his mother’s passion and the drastic drought he has witnessed in his home state California, Lowell Meyer has set out on his own self-supported bike ride for change down the Western Seaboard. Having never biked for more than 55 miles in one sitting, let alone 1,600 in one month, Lowell mustered the courage […]

Departing July 7th, Forrest Watkins is one month into a multi-year, multi-continent cycling journey. Over four years he will cycle one circumfrence of the Earth while searching for, and documenting, the impacts of climate change in the communities he visits. The following excerpts are taken from Forrest’s May 19th blog post in which he focuses on […]

Morgan Curtis is about to depart on a multi-month ride from New England to Paris, arriving in time to attend the United Nations COP21 conference in December as a Youth Delegate from the United States. Along the way she will investigate and share climate stories from those she meets along the way. This is her […]

The Climate Ride community is full of intelligent, passionate, and creative individuals. Each year, hundreds of riders and hikers from across the country come together to join us on our signature cycling and hiking events. However, each year there are tons of other intelligent, passionate, and creative individuals out there who aren’t able to join […]

“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.” Maya Angelou Our first two Climate Ride Independent Challenges of 2014 acheived great success. These Challengers really took life by the lapels and rode hard for the cause! Two Wheelin’ Across Nebraska A huge congratulations to our intrepid Climate Rider […]

Nearly 2,300 miles in to my cross-country journey at my unofficial halfway point in Crested Butte, CO, I've been constantly reminded that bicycles are incredible machines. As I continuously refine my own "velosophy," I'd like to make an argument for travel at the speed of bike.

Greetings from Kansas! I've been on the road for three weeks now, dedicating my summer to riding across the country, spreading the message of Climate Ride, and raising money to help support our growth.

Independent Challenge Presentation