04/06/2026
Every week, we witness what happens when people decide to show up for themselves and for each other. Here is how our community showed up recently in this 👇
🥾 Friendship Home’s Leadership for All Abilities cohort hiked World's End Reservation and explored what it means to lead, learning that good leaders show up for their whole team and not just themselves. They put their teamwork skills to the challenge by setting up a tent together to prep for their upcoming backpacking trip. Great things are absolutely ahead for this group!
🛶 Students from Somerville Public Schools took to the water at Paddle Boston Blessing of the Bay for our very first kayaking program of the year, with perseverance as their goal of the day. The stoke was high!
🤜 Mario Umana Academy brought their teamwork energy to Greenwood Park. Every fist bump showed us that we always go further together!
🧗 Merrimac Heights Academy students explored their comfort, stretch, and challenge zones while climbing at Greenbelt - Essex County's Land Trust's Den Rock. They learned that being brave may not look like what you initially expect it to. Sometimes it is deciding to try, and that is a win!
👋 Our Executive Director Dan headed to Lancaster to represent Waypoint Adventure at the AdaptX's Unified 5K, where people with and without disabilities came together to walk, run, roll, and row in an inclusive road race. There may have been 20+ mph winds and rain, but several hundred people showed up anyway, and that says everything about what AdaptX has created. We are so proud to be part of it!
🌳 Boston Public Schools Carter School wrapped up the last hike of their school year at Blue Hills Reservation with the goal of discovery, tuning into every sound, texture, smell, and sight the trail had to offer. Hiking may be over for the school year, but kayaking is just around the corner for this crew and we cannot wait!
