On Sunday, a group of four women rolled up to the U.S./Mexico border on their skateboards just south of San Diego. They had spent the last 16 days on their boards, pushing down the 300 miles of California coastline that separates Santa Barbara from the Mexican border. The founders of a nonprofit known as Duchess Ride, they had completed the feat for a unique cause: empowering young women by encouraging them to skate, snowboard and surf as hard as they possibly can.
Claire Altenau, 28; Carissa Bisnar, 32; Carly Finke, 23; and Jaime Schulte, 26, are the co-founders of Duchess Ride. Altenau, Finke and Schulte met Bisnar while on a chairlift in Utah and bonded over their love of supporting fellow female snowboarders.
“Claire and I had grown up riding together in Colorado,” Schulte told … More