Adventuring Into Life
Programs for women and kids to build confidence and connect through adventure and experience.
We are a growing company, founded in 2016 by Andrea Locke. The business was started to encourage girls and women to get into mountain biking and adventure sports. Andrea grew up a competitive skier, moving into coaching and saw a trend of girls dropping out of sport. She wanted to create a space for girls to get involved and create opportunities for them to push themselves in a comfortable environment. There was also a desire to get more women involved in coaching sports! Both of those were successful and still a key part of the business.
Since then, we have grown to offer programs for all youth! Our programs operate primarily out of Kamloops, BC, one of the go to destinations for mountain biking! We also have a small selection of programs in Vernon BC, Vancouver Island, Grande Prairie AB and other pop up locations.
When you ride with us, you are directly contributing to financial and volunteer efforts for our local trails! Our entire community thanks you for that and we also encourage you to purchase a membership or make a donation to Kamloops Mountain Bike Association
Our lead mountain bike coaches are all level 1 PMBIA certified, or equivalent and all of our other coaches under go training programs with the business to ensure high quality programing!
Values
Confidence — Learn the skills you need to ride your bike with confidence. Our certified bike instructors will meet you where you’re at to ensure you have the skills to ride your bike safely and with confidence.
Connect — Build friendships with like minded people who want to be outdoors, be active, and have fun! Connect with yourself, build new skills, and discover how capable you are. Connect to nature and your inner joy!
Adventure — Breathe fresh air and delve into the great outdoors. Whether you’re exploring trails in your community or experiencing new places, we encourage you to experience your environment from a new perspective. Mountain biking is exciting, inspiring, and full of adventure!
Our team
Our team is made up of passionate, certified bike instructors and parent volunteers. Our instructors are all unique, but there is one commonality between us: WE LOVE TO BIKE. We believe that biking is a way to increase confidence and bring more joy to your life!
Our instructors are all certified to ensure safe and consistent delivery of RIL programs. Learn more about our lead instructors in the profiles below!
+ Andrea
Founder of Riding Into Life
Andrea first got into mountain biking when she was offered a job teaching basic bike skills to school groups in Grande Prairie. She loved the freedom she felt riding the trails and the adrenaline rush she experienced as she challenged herself in new ways. Andrea quickly fell in love with mountain biking and, wanting to share her passion with others, she founded Riding Into Life.
What Andrea loves about facilitating bike camps is seeing people grow and discover the joys of biking. She loves to see how proud people are when they accomplish something they didn’t know they could do, like riding a new trail or taking a corner with more confidence than they had before.
Even when she’s not on her bike, Andrea loves spending time outside. Her newest passion is gardening, and she enjoys learning about native plants and incorporating them into her meals.
+ Breanna
Grande Prairie Lead
Breanna’s passion for mountain biking began when she signed up for a clinic. By the end of that clinic, she was hooked! That was more than a dozen years ago, and Breanna’s still biking up a storm.
Mountain biking has helped Breanna stay mentally and physically healthy. She sees tremendous value in coaching women and helping them build confidence in a supportive environment.
Biking fills Breanna with joy. She wants to share that joy with as many women as possible!
+ Sena
Kamloops Lead
Sena grew up in Canmore, Alberta, and she’s been riding bikes ever since she learned to walk. Sena started bike racing when she was 11 years old and started coaching the same year!
In her final year of high school, Sena quit racing when she realized that she didn’t care whether she won or lost. She realized that what was important to her was going on adventures with her friends and biking for the joy of it.
Sena now lives in Kamloops and loves the countless year-round riding opportunities that are available to her there. Her favorite thing about coaching is sharing her passion for mountain biking and seeing others fall in love with the sport.
When she’s not on her bike, Sena enjoys hiking, reading, and cooking.
Praise
"During the clinic I was really fighting with wrapping my mind around the technique, but I was taking in your advice. This morning I was able to get out on my bike and it just clicked for me! Thanks again."
— Caitlin G.
"I absolutely loved them and learnt so so much! I cannot wait to get out riding and practice! And it’s so nice to see other ladies into the same thing. "
— Megan L.
"I have never heard her use the words bike and fun in the same sentence so thank you, that is definitely progress!"
— Joslynn
"M— has never been more confident on her bike than she is now, especially on hills - and she has even taken a few falls and continues to get up and keep riding."
— Meghan K.