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York Cycle Explorer

York Cycle Explorer

You need 1000 more York Cycle Explorer points to win this reward.

Earn this badge and you could win something from our list of prizes.

Simply get on your bike and start exploring nature by doing the challenges assigned to each badge. Unlock 1,000 points and earn at least one Cycle Explorer badge to be entered into a prize draw. You could win a Nintendo 3DS, an underwater camera, Mission:Explore Food books, badges, posters or one of our mystery prizes.

All of the missions for this badges are along a route on the National Cycle Network. Make sure you look through the missions before you set out so you can make sure you know what you need and what you need to do. To find out how to enter, what prizes are available and other things you might need to know, visit the Cycle Closer to Nature page.

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Mission Rating Reward Points order ascending Status
Location mission
Cycle to the Sun
You are currently on Pluto, over 3.5 billion miles away from the Sun. Cycle there!
York Cycle Explorer 210
Location mission
Fall in love
Fall in love with a tree and write it a ballad proclaiming your undying affection. Make it super...
York Cycle Explorer 210
Location mission
Moonwalk mission
Moonwalk around our Moon and Earth. 
York Cycle Explorer 210
Location mission
Solve the labyrinth
Blindfold yourself and get a friend to direct you to the middle of the maze.
York Cycle Explorer 210
Location mission
Worm's eye view
Explore this area from both a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view.
York Cycle Explorer 210
Location mission
Take a picture with your mind
Make your thumbs and index fingers into a square. Close one eye and peer through this frame to find...
York Cycle Explorer 220
Location mission
Run rings around Saturn
Run round and round anything round you can find, including Saturn and its rings.
York Cycle Explorer 230
Location mission
Smell hunter
Use your nose to explore the area - find fragrances and sniff out stinks. What is the grossest...
York Cycle Explorer 230
Location mission
Design a creature
You're at Mercury, a planet that can reach temperatures as high as 
York Cycle Explorer 250
Location mission
Neptune's trident
Find Neptune's trident and imagine this landscape as a seascape.... As you cycle off to your next...
York Cycle Explorer 250
Location mission
Cycle slower than the speed of light
On this trail, when you cycle at your normal speed you're travelling at about ten times the speed...
York Cycle Explorer 260
Location mission
Cycle to the end of the solar system
You are currently at the Sun, over 3.5 billion miles away from the edge of our solar system. Cycle...
York Cycle Explorer 260
Location mission
Find some frogs
Every spring this marsh is full of frogs and their spawn. Write a song in frog language and perform...
York Cycle Explorer 260
Location mission
Hide and squeak
Explore one of these tunnels as if you were a mouse. Take a picture of the farmland from your...
York Cycle Explorer 260
Location mission
Make a warrior
Make a sculpture of a warrior using sticks, stones, flowers, leaves or any other natural stuff...
York Cycle Explorer 260

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