Sticks and Stones Camp (08/19/2015)

Day Two:

Today was another great day with a phenomenal group of mountain bikers!  We delved into a bit of everything this morning as we climbed tricky hills, conquered logs, went mud-bogging and found three geocaches. Special thanks to Ryan Williams for joining us today on the trails, the kids really enjoyed you being there!  

Our initial warm-up led the 14 bikers to stretch their legs out and get them acclimated to giving each other at least 2 bicycle lengths away from the person in front of them while keeping their eyes up. While we were doing that, we were also intentionally heading to our first geocache.

Following that we continued on our way to our first "King/Queen of the Mountain" challenge.  Each rider was given two attempts to get to the top of a very challenging hill.  It was awesome to see how supportive each of the bikers were towards one another! I really wished we could've stayed there longer because so many of the riders were so close to summiting the hill.
 
Pictured below are photos from the "King/Queen of the Mountain" challenge, enjoy!

Kings of the Mountain

King of the Mountain

Queen of the Mountain!

Keep up the great work everyone, we are all really stoked that we have such a fun, skilled group to close out the 2015 season of Sticks and Stones Youth Mountain Biking Development! 

We are going to keep an eye on the weather forecast for tomorrow to decide if we are going to be able to bike.  If we are not able to do so safely, we will resume biking on Saturday morning. There will be a message that will go out to notify everyone of our decision.  Keep your fingers crossed that the meteorologists give us a good outlook for tomorrow mornings weather.