4 day Teen Girls - ‘Bike Pack with Mack’ (or Barney the banana…)
Teenage girls face a complex mix of challenges on their journey to adulthood including unrealistic beauty standards, rigid stereotypes and a world that sometimes underestimates them. They have unique needs when it comes to participation in sport, and for their growth and well-being in general. Read about our recent Teen Girls Bike Packing trip with WORD
Haurangi Hut Mis-Adventure?
Adventure is a tenet of what we do at WORD- it is one of our 5 founding values that guide all our choices. Sometimes, the adventure you set out to do isn’t the adventure you come home talking about; papatūānuku can have other plans in mind.
Minneapolis is AMAZING… don’t tell anyone
Stop #2 on the Study tour… Minnesota. A place you don’t normally think about when you think of mountain biking… unless you’ve met Bruce.
Bentonville, it’s a whirlwind
Youth MTB study tour stop #1- Bentonville, Arkansas. We’re not in (Ar)Kansas anymore…
Founder’s Folly
Welcome to our new blog! We’ll be sharing with ya’ll the things that make WORD, well, WORD. We’ll dig into what makes WORD work (and what doesn’t), what makes this community so special, and why we do what we do. And why on earth we are on a mission to change the world, one ride at a time.