About Kids Who Explore
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Kids Who Explore began with a simple belief: adventures don’t end when you have kids.
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Adrianna Skori founded Kids Who Explore in 2020 while hiking pregnant in the Canadian Rockies.
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An avid hiker, she quickly discovered there was little accessible information about safely returning to the trail with a baby or confidently exploring outdoors with young children. Instead, the message she kept hearing was that adventure stops when baby arrives.
She was even told pregnant women didn’t belong on the trail.
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That narrative didn’t sit right.
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So, Kids Who Explore was created to change it.
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What began as one mother’s determination to keep exploring has grown into a global outdoor community helping families raise adventurous, resilient kids connected to nature.
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What We Do
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Founded in the Canadian Rockies, Kids Who Explore is a social enterprise giving families the community, knowledge, and resources they need to get outside together.
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Through free local chapters and meetups, outdoor education, practical resources, family adventures, and the Explorer Store, we’re working to make outdoor family life feel more accessible and achievable.
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Across the globe, families gather under the Kids Who Explore banner to hike, camp, climb, ski, travel, and explore together.
Because getting outside with kids doesn’t have to be complicated.
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Sometimes you just need the confidence to begin and a community to begin with.
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Our Mission
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We’re on a mission to connect more kids to nature and more families to each other through adventure.
We believe childhood belongs outside.
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On trails. In tents. Around campfires. On mountaintops. Exploring new places and discovering just how capable they are.
From a baby’s first hike to a family’s first backpacking trip, we want families to know that adventure doesn’t have to stop when kids come along. They can come too.
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Because nature has an incredible way of raising resilient, curious, confident kids while giving parents a place to reconnect, find community, and experience the outdoors alongside them.
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We’re building a global community of families who hike, camp, travel, backpack, explore, and raise their kids with nature as part of their childhood.
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More kids outside. More families connected. More childhoods shaped by nature.
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Motherhood Is Where It All Began
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Hi Explorers, I’m Adrianna Skori, Founder and CEO of Kids Who Explore.
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The idea for Kids Who Explore came to me while hiking pregnant on a trail close to home in the Canadian Rockies. I wanted to create the resource and community I had been searching for myself: a place where parents could learn how to get outside with their babies and kids, connect with other families, and feel encouraged to keep exploring through every season of parenthood.
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In 2020, that little idea became Kids Who Explore.
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What happened next was bigger than I could have imagined.
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During a time when families around the world needed connection more than ever, parents began finding Kids Who Explore and sharing their own outdoor experiences. We hosted virtual challenges, scavenger hunts, global trail cleanups, shared podcasts and educational resources, and welcomed hundreds of ambassador families who wanted to help encourage other families to get outside.
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Our Explorer Patch travelled around the world, our community continued to grow, and eventually families began meeting each other on the trail.
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Today, Kids Who Explore has grown far beyond an Instagram account or a single hiking community. It has become a place where families can learn, connect, and explore together, both online and in communities around the world.
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And that original idea still guides everything we do:
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You don’t have to stop exploring when you become a parent. You get to bring them with you.
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Find Your Place in Kids Who Explore
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Whether you’re heading outside with a baby for the first time or raising kids who already live for the trail, there’s a place for your family here.
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Find your local chapter. Join a free meetup. Learn something new. Plan your next adventure.
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Wherever you are starting from, we’ll meet you there.