Girls Got Skills – Day 2

Day 2 of the clinic, and things are getting fabulous.

Yes, it’s silly outfit and hula hoop day.  I think Walmart must have been busy last night.

No, these are just my reading glasses.

OK, on to some more training.  Worked on berms and cornering today.  Having this rad berm all freshly built for us made it easy to progress.  From tentative first turns…

..to all out radness in just a few minutes.

The socks help:

Having Johanna set demos like this may also have something to do with it.

We went up to Powers Creek for the afternoon to get some more advanced riding in, and also to show off some hot fashions on the runway.

Big smiles, that’s a sign of a successful session.

Just try it, if you fall off you’ll be landing on people.  They’re squishy.

A lot of learning went down on this run.  Powers can be very intimidating to new riders, and there was no shortage of fear at the top of the trail, but by half way the girls were killing it at every turn.

Although there’s no guarantee that you’re not going to eat it on a flat section and take a mud bath.  You know that you can pay top dollar for this sort of thing at a spa, and we just include it in the price of the weekend.

Another excellent weekend clinic.  Thanks to Barb, Johanna, and Candace for the excellent coaching, and all the women who came out to ride.  We will be running this camp annually, so see you next year!  Or if you have a few girls who are looking for some instruction, just drop us a line and we can set something up.

Powers Creek Trail Day

Time to buff out those trails.  And with the first rain in weeks, it’s looking good to build out there.

Dan, you thought you’d gotten out of the club scene didn’t you (he used to be the President of the NSMBA)?

Nothing major got built today, but almost the entire trail of Builder’s Only got smoothed out and buffed.

Justin, Rich, and a few others also went out to 2.5 and cleared a ton of deadfall from the winter.

The rest of us moved huge rocks around and filled in all the holes.

The crew at Outbound kept us fed and watched the bikes so we could rip.

Can’t do this on the Shore either…

Wildlife sighting, one small purple dinosaur at the bottom of the mountain.  Those things are endangered, eh?