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NETRA Youth and Pee Wee Camp | 2008-05-09 | Colebrook , CT

Location

79 Fritz Road Colebrook CT.

 

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The NETRA Youth Camp is only a few weeks away. I know it seems like forever since you first told your parents that you really wanted to go to camp for a weekend to learn everything you could from some of New Englands top off-road riders, but the time is nearly here. I know you’ve been waiting to hear just what it is you’ll be doing for the weekend, so here you go!

First of all, how do you find the Camp? The address is 79 Fritz Road Colebrook CT. Map quest will pull the address and directions right up. For those of you familiar with NETRA’s arrowing to events..the route will be arrowed from the intersection’s of Route 8 and Route 44 in Winsted CT. The arrows will be Red with a white background and have MSR on them.

Friday
Drop-off and registration: Begins at 3:00 pm on Friday May 9th. All campers should try to be at the Camp by 6:00pm. At 6:00 pm we will have a bit of chow and familiarize you with the camp layout and facilities. Parents are welcome and encouraged to stay for the orientation meeting.

7:00 PM National Suspension service, and expert Northeast woods experts “Factory Connection” will host a seminar on proper suspension settings, including what “turning your clickers” does, and the importance of setting the sag on your bike. We will help to check and set sag on all participants bikes.
If time permits prior to lights out at 10:00 pm we will watch a dirt-bike movie.

Saturday
7:00 Am: Everyone up and eating a hearty healthy breakfast so that your bodies will be fueled for the mornings activities.
8:00 AM: A rotational schedule will be followed by each group. The schedule will rotate between seminars including.
Bike Maintenance, Nutrition and hydration, Proper riding Position, weighting the pegs.

12:00 : Lunch.
12:45: Gear up and get ready to ride.
1:00 Riders will follow group leaders into the camp seminar locations. The groups will be separated based on experience and bike size. We will have experience groups. They are.. Beginner, Novice, Amateur, and Expert. We are setting our locations up so that you will have plenty of riding time to get to and from seminar locations, as well as at least 45 minutes at each skill seminar. Once there our expert riders will brief and demonstrate techniques to negotiate the terrain that is typically found in the New England woods. The riding and skill seminars will include.
· Seeing and choosing good “lines” through rocky areas.
· Negotiating log’s that are frequently fallen across New England trails.
· Climbing hills, and proper technique to get going again when stalled or stuck on a hill.
· Traversing rutted or soft (muddy) areas.
· Proper cornering technique through body position, and weighting the pegs.
6:00 Return to the camp area for dinner.
Clean up equipment, inspect equipment for maintenance needs from Saturday’s seminars.
Once all equipment is cleaned up, and maintenance finished we will have a camp bon fire, and tug of war. We will also have a movie playing in the Camp mess hall.
Once the movie is over it will be lights out. Sunday will be another full day of action, and seat time.
Sunday
8:00 Breakfast.
9:00 : Police camp area so that once we start the day’s riding activities we can keep riding to the conclusion of the camp.
10:00 AM C-Cycle suspension expert will be on hand to recheck everyone’s suspension set up, prior to beginning the day’s riding activities.
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Gear-up Sunday’s activities will include riders opportunities to return to Saturday’s skill seminar areas by request, so that riders will be able to sharpen skills they would like to work on.
2:00 Free ride with camp counselors sweeping and supervising. We will have 3 loops set up for the free ride. The loops will range from a 1.5 mile novice loop. A 3.5 mile Amateur loop, and the full blown 6.5 mile New England woods loop that will be sure to challenge our expert campers as well as some of our counselors.
3:30 Camp Graduation and awards ceremony.
We will guarantee that by the end of the weekend you will have improved your off-road riding skills. Made new and lasting friendships, and be totally pooped out!