Unlikely Riders

At A Glance

Location: 

Burlington, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Environmental Health
  • Living Economies
  • Climate Change & Energy
  • Land & Water

Active since:

2020

  • A group of 23 people in ski and snowboard gear are posing together, some sitting in the front, others standing around them, some with their hands up, at a midmountain on snow location, with an open snow trail and top of the tram visible behind them.

Our Purpose

Unlikely Riders is a collective of BIPOC folks residing on unceded Indigenous land settled as ‘vermont.’ Our work is to encourage all Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to engage in fun, radical joy and offer support to find healing through the mountains while centering our needs and abilities. We are organized around mobilizing our community to find healing with the mountains while claiming space in the snow sports industry & culture. We are using snow sports as vehicles for radical conversations and movements while acknowledging and reconnecting to the land we ride on. Fostering outdoor play is our act of resistance.