Overnight Number One

I'm recovering from Sprockids camping trip number one and preparing for number two. We took twenty-five kids into the woods Tuesday evening, played cards, roasted marshmallows, stayed up late cracking jokes and telling riddles, played team-building games, went swimming and most importantly, took them on some of the area's gnarliest trails.

They did great! I was very impressed as even the littlest kids tried the biggest obstacles. We spotted them over the toughest stuff, and they got over their fears and tackled huge chainring logs, wheelie drops, tall log piles, and skinny bridges over smelly, wet muck.

We take a smaller group of only the older, advanced riders to Highland Forest this weekend for our advanced clinic. After seeing how great everyone did on the technical trails at Vanderkamp, I'm thinking there's not much more we can challenge them with! The older kids though don't tire as quickly as the little ones, so we'll keep the pace up a little higher, cover more ground, and run them (and us) ragged this weekend.