The Board Walks is a 5-mile walk for people who are quietly starving for a real conversation.
That's the whole thing...
And also not the whole thing.
On the surface:
Every Saturday, in 15+ cities, strangers meet at a trailhead, leave their phones in their pockets, and walk five miles together while talking about the stuff most of us only think about at 2 AM and rarely say out loud.
Underneath:
It's a response to something most people are feeling and can't quite name.
You can be surrounded and still feel completely alone. You can have a full calendar and a thin life. We built a room — a moving one — where that stops being true for a couple of hours.
No pitching. No dating. No phones.
In two words: no agenda.
Just curious humans, a good question, and the particular kind of honesty that only seems to come out when you're walking shoulder to shoulder instead of staring across a table.
People have called it the place I hear myself most clearly. A non-negotiable for my week. The family I chose for myself. We didn't ask them to say those things. They just kept saying them.
It started with eight people in Austin, Texas, in July 2022.
It has grown to more than 20,000 humans, across more than 15 cities, entirely by word of mouth.
Not a dollar on ads.
People come, something shifts, they bring someone they love.
This is the front door.
Behind it, there's more: a newsletter, a media home, a private layer for people who want to go deeper, and a quiet philosophy holding the whole thing up.
It all starts with Saturday morning.
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Austin Walk #1
San Francisco, CA
Austin Walk #100
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Detroit, Michigan
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Aveiro, Portugal
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London, UK
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Boone, NC
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Columbus, Ohio
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Sacramento, CA
The world, in one glance:
The Board Walks are where it happens.
The Friday Debrief is where we tell you what happened.
Whimsy World is our media home for great conversations.
The Board is the private room.
Our founder Elle shares her inner world, and Cam contemplates.
And underneath all of it is one idea:
The right environment changes who you get to be.
