Bike Camp Day 2

M and D and K are ready to rip! However, due to injuries sustained yesterday, D is just doing a trail run beside us (which in itself is pretty impressive!). He is hoping his parts heal for tomorrow.

So, after riding up Mountain Highway, the hardest part of the day, they wanted to run down Natural High and all the stunts. K walks up a board and promptly falls on his head. Oops! Who is the supervisor of this trip? He now knows what a swivel teeter feels like.

Same as yesterday, we did Bobsled, then Floppy the out King of the shore. K was a great bike handler, not even any near misses that I caught. D ran his heart out, claiming he wasn't tired at any time (right?). M rolled and bumped his way having fun with his buddies.

After a quick slurpie fuelup we headed back to Lynn Canyon to jump the cliffs. Well, they jumped the cliffs. That water is too freakin' cold for me. A little jumping on the rocks and the requisite falling in the raging river rounded out another beautiful day of bike camp.

Summer 2013 Begins with Mountain Biking Camp

Camp Jeff has begun.

This is a 10 week bundle of fun, hanging out with Daddy. Thank goodness he is a teacher.

The day begins with K and C on their way to Mac for a daycamp. Woohoo! Just hangin' with her friends.

M and D grab the mountain bikes and off we go to the North Shore. Hoping for no blood and no broken bones to start the summer. A half hour is spent checking over the bikes, lube the chain, check the brakes and learn to remove the front wheel (and more importantly, putting it back on tight) for the bike rack.

D gets a pair of loaner gloves for the inevitable spills that occur.

I offer to drop them at the gate. This has no meaning for D as he has never been there and has no concept of parking tickets. Perhaps he is spoiled by Whistler ski in/out ? Anyways, we assemble the bikes and start the climb up from Coleman. 20min later we hit the gate. Now he gets it. Perhaps tomorrow a drop at the gate? We'll see how awake he is...

I should say that another soccer friend was to join us, but he was playing soccer with a bees nest and so his foot would not fit into a shoe. Hopeful that the doctor will let him come and play tomorrow.

The plan was Bobsled (maybe two times?) and then out the King-of-the-Shore trails.

Turns out that they climbed so well and climbed back on after crashing that we did Bobsled, Floppy Bunny and then King of the Shore. Great Ride GUYS! No blood, no broken bikes, (maybe a few tears due to 'sackage').... but all in all a great first ride.

We spent lunch at Lynn Canyon watching the crazy teenagers jump from the rocks into the ice water. M and D want to bring bathing suits to do that tomorrow. May need parents to sign a waiver for that.

We are hoping that the next two days we will ride Leopard (about half way up the mountain) and the final day's challenge will be to ride to the very top and have lunch at the CrowsNest then cruise back down some of the trails for the afternoon. Lofty Goals.

Playland pne

JW, D, Jill and Jeff took an entire soccer team (well, actually 8 kids) to run amuck at playland. It appears JW is having his share of the fun before succumbing to the old-man dizziness syndrome that plagues all adults over the age of 45...

 

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Getting old

Makes you look like your grandparents!

Kids Excelleration Triathlon 2012

These two kids were amazing! They got hammered, swamped, run over and nearly drowned in the swim, but once they found space for biking and running: POW! They ran and biked away from the crowd.

The swim start was orderly on the deck, but once in the water, chaos!

Googles!!!!!

K finishes exhausted.

M finishes with a sprint!

Whew! Finished.

K and M check out the swag

Secret finger lock puzzle

Whitecaps soccer camp

It's a wrap. Another successful summer camp. Two weeks down for the summer and seven to go!

Climber kid

Look at her go.