STICKS & STONES BIRTHDAY PACKAGE!

This coming spring, Sticks and Stones Outdoor Camps is excited to announce that we will be offering a birthday celebration package! For $250, this unique experience could help make your child's birthday one that they will remember forever. Provided in this package will be two hours of mountain biking with snacks, drinks and supervision for up to ten kids.  

We will bike from Circleville Park to the nearby Patton Woods trails, so you'll have the opportunity to have an active and adventurous birthday celebration that will start and end from one of State College's best parks.

Upon our return, your celebration could continue at one of Circleville Parks pavilion areas. Pavilions can be rented from Centre Region Parks and Recreation, see the link shared below for additional information.    

Please contact rfurmanek@yahoo.com to reserve a date or inquire with any further questions.

How to Reserve a Centre Region Parks & Rec. Pavilion

CRPR Personal Pavilion Reservation Form

Thank you, 

Bob and Kirk 

Solid Session in the Woods!

Camp was full of life today as we had seventeen riders who were ready to take on anything that was put in front of them.  As you'll be able to see in the photos below we had a lot of great kids who encouraged others or picked each other up if they took a spill. It was really fun to watch the riders get to know one another and make new friends while they were going through the session today. 

In total, we rode close to six miles today filled with old logging trails, singletrack, logs, roots and rocks. Every rider did a great job working through each obstacle! Once we arrived back at the tent, the riders finished out by having a fun competition. We ended today by having a balancing challenge, where the victor earned a new Sticks and Stones t-shirt. Awesome job today everyone!   

Enjoy the photos below!

Bob and Kirk

Ripping Around the Woods!

Camp was great today! The riders did an awesome job exploring and riding over some newly downed obstacles, thanks to Mother Nature. In total, we rode ten miles with close to 700 feet of elevation gain. Solid ride!

Today, as most days of camp, Bob and I will talk throughout camp and comment on the improvements of the mountain bikers. We let the riders make their own choices of what they want to ride over, or what they wish to walk their bike over. It never ceases to amaze us how each individual chooses to ride over obstacles that they wouldn't have attempted at the start of the day. It's one of my favorite parts of camp, seeing both confidence and skill levels increase with the passing of each day! Another dramatic improvement that occurred with one of our riders was seeing how his new bike from The Bicycle Shop paved the way for heightened confidence and excitement. Younger riders grow at varying rates but it's incredible to see how a correctly sized bike can improve their riding ability! 

Enjoy!

Bob and Kirk

Rothrock Exploration!

Day Three, Week One:

Huge congrats to all of our mountain bikers today and those who joined us throughout the entire week! Today was the most challenging of the three days and everyone did a great job working through some extremely technical terrain, rubbing some dirt on scrapes and tip toeing past a rattlesnake and a snapping turtle. Well done!

Everyone gathered and listened to the game plan for the session.  We split into two groups and half of us rode up Bear Meadows Road to Corner Road, up Camp, to Beer Tap and across the Ridge to Kettle Trail descent.  The half of the group pedaled up Laurel Run Road, to Three Bridges, to Longberger and back!

All in all, it was an outstanding week and we look forward to seeing everyone back for another one of our camps later this summer! Please contact us if you have not already to save a spot while they are still available!

10 - 13 yrs.              (10:00am - 1:00pm)

$150 PER CAMP

M, R: 7/10 & 7/13 ($100)

M, W, F: 8/7, 8/9 & 8/11

Below are some photographs from today's session, enjoy!!

Can you spot the rattlesnake?

Day Two is in the Books!

DAY TWO, WEEK 1:

The second day of camp was another rippin' day on the trails as we are now up to 342 miles biked during camp in 2017! As soon as the bikers got to the lot, they shook out their legs by tearing around the warm up loop and got ready for a big day of biking.

Once everyone arrived we took a decent journey to some more technical riding and trails filled with roots, rocks and log obstacles. It's always fun to see the natural progression of how the bikers gain confidence and their ability to read a trail and see the "correct" line to travel. Everyone did a great job conquering obstacles, facing fears, and surpassing nearly 800 feet of elevation gain on our 8.6 mile journey.

We look forward to picking it up another level and tackling a variety of additional challenges tomorrow in Rothrock! See everyone at 10AM at the Galbraith Gap Parking Lot!

Enjoy the photos and awesome drone footage put together by our very own, Owen Hildebrand!

Bob and Kirk

The Balance Challenge Final!

Mountain Biking: Season 3 Kickoff!

Today marked the third year of camps for us at Sticks and Stones! As the mountain bikers gathered at the parking lot, we felt the excitement growing and it made us thankful of how great the campers are that sign up for our sessions! It's an awesome setting to have the opportunity to share and pass down our passion for the sport of mountain biking.

We started off with a quick warm up loop around the single track trails from Patton Woods and it was evident that the skill level of this camp is strong.  Following our warm up, we had a balancing challenge to make the riders focus on keeping their weight evenly distributed. The riders lined up in heats of four to see who could travel 15 yards the slowest without dabbing their foot to the ground. They really got into this challenge and I'm positive this won't be the last time we see this challenge at our camps this summer.

After this, we went back out onto the trails and visited a few of our hill challenges as we arrived to one of the requested loops that we had the riders complete during one of last years camps.  All in all it was a successful day and we look forward to meeting again tomorrow at Circleville Park parking lot!

Below are a few photos from our first hill challenge from today! I tried to get a decent photo of everyone but a few of them weren't worthy of posting. We will make up for that tomorrow!

Enjoy!

Bob and Kirk     

*UPDATED 2017 SUMMER SCHEDULE*

Due to Mother Nature's recent Winter Storm Stella, the last day of school for State College Area School District is now Wednesday June 14th, 2017.  The last day of school will be a half day so the week one mountain biking camp has changed to Wednesday (6/14) from 3:30PM - 6:30PM, Thursday (10:00AM - 1:00PM) and Friday (10:00AM - 1:00PM).  

If you are unable to attend one or more of those days, please let us know at rfurmanek@yahoo.com. 

Thank you, 

Bob and Kirk