Camp overview

High Lonesome Downhill Skills Bike Camp
Come join us in the forests near the High Lonesome Hut to improve your downhill mountain bike skills. The Huck Forest Bike Park features a mountain cross course, ladder trails, a downhill course and a series of gap jumps in beginner, intermediate and advanced lines. New features are always being added as well.
Your base camp is a fully equipped, solar powered cabin with hot and cold running water, a shower, a flush toilet and comfy beds.
Riders ages 8-16 will bike to the camp over a 2.4 mile trail. Evenings will be spent playing, riding and sitting around a campfire. Daytime activities will include building mountain biking skills and exploring in the woods. Food will be plentiful, including marshmallow roasts around the campfire.
Great care is taken to ensure students only ride courses they are comfortable with, after extensive practice on beginner features.
The Park is on a private wooded parcel at 9400 feet elevation, near the High Lonesome Hut. The property is surrounded by National Forest, and students ride to the camp along a permitted right of way through the forest. Parents are welcome to ride into the hut with the students on the first day and check out the Park and the Hut. You may ride in again on the final day to see the new skills your children have learned.
The Camp Director is Forest Miller, a student at Ft. Lewis College in Durango. Forest is a member of the Fort Lewis College downhill team. He and his brother Skyler race on the Mountain Cup Circuit, the local mountain bike race series in Colorado. Wade and Cody Wilderman and Totally Wired Cyclery in Fraser are also sponsors. The Camp Manager is Andrew Miller, a qualified and experienced Colorado elementary teacher, manager and owner of the High Lonesome Hut, and a licensed Colorado Large Child Care Center Director. Camp insurance is with USA Cycling, participants must register as NORBA members (registration packets available through the camp, fees are minimal).

2008 Huck Forest Bike Camp Schedule

Weekend Camps, Friday- Sunday
July 18- July 20
July 25- July 27
August 15- August 17

Campers will meet Friday at 1:00 p.m. at the High Lonesome Hut trailhead. Please make sure as a camp participant you have had lunch before you come to the trailhead. Snacks and water will be provided when we reach the bike park. Camper's gear will be loaded into the truck and taken to the bike park. The group will then ride in to the bike park on a 2.5 mile jeep road. This is not a very challenging ride and we will take our time. Parents are welcome to join us on the ride. We will spend Friday afternoon looking at the features, learning a few basic skills, and of course, riding. After a brief visit, parents will leave the children to enjoy the camp on their own. After the group is done riding we will ride the remaining .25 miles to the High Lonesome Hut were the group will stay. Dinner will be served at the hut and we will spend the evening outside around the campfire. Breakfast will be served Saturday at the hut. We will then ride up to the bike park were we will spend all day riding, and learning the fundamentals of mountain biking. Lunch will be served at the park. That evening we will ride back down to the hut were dinner will be served. Breakfast will be served on Sunday morning, and the campers will pack up there gear and load it into the truck. We will then ride back to the bike park to the final morning of riding. Parents are welcome to ride into the bike park and meet us at noon to see some what their kids are doing. We will depart the park at 1:00 and meet at the trailhead at 2:00 for camper pick-up.

Ages:
8-16

Cost:
Weekend camps- $300.00 per person

Staff:
Director, Andrew Miller Certified large child care center director, State of Colorado. B.A. in Elementary Education, former teacher of all elementary grades except fifth. Professional Contractor. Founder, designer and builder of the High Lonesome Hut.
Technical Skills Instructor and Equipment Manager Wade Wilderman, owner, Totally Wired Cyclery, competitor Mountain States Cup, age division winner.
Instructors Forest Miller mountain states cup compertitor, student Fort Lewis College, designer and builder, Huck Forest Bike Courses. Cody Wilderman, Pro gravity competitor in the mountain states cup and Team Totally Wired rider. Also a designer and builder of the bike park.
Camp Safety Director A First Responder certified first aid professional will be added to the staff before the camp begins. Other instructors may be added depending on registration numbers. Staff, student ratios will be at least one to four.
Camp Gear list
-Light weight sleeping bag, the cabin is warm. A set of twin sheets is ok if you don't have a bag
-Pillow
-toothbrush and toothpaste
-Water bottles will provided
-Sneakers (in good shape, no riding in sandals), extra pair if possible
-Bike Helmet-
A full-face helmet is recommended, but it is not required. An open shell bike helmet will work. If you have both types of helmets, bring both. It is recommended that the camper has a cross-country helmet for the ride in. A full-face helmet can be unpleasant to wear pedaling up hills.
-Knee Pads/elbow pads are also recommended but not required.
-Bike gloves
-Rain gear
-Sun screen
-Spare clothes- enough for 3 or 4 days
-sunglasses
-Long pants (jeans recommended)
-Shorts
Food
Will be plentiful. Please let us know if your child is a vegetarian or if (s)he has any special dietary needs.
Bike info
Mountain X style bikes are recommended for the camp. If you do not have a mountain bike, they can be rented from the Totally Wired Cyclery in Fraser. It is required that you take you bike in for a tune up at any bike shop before the camp. Totally Wired can tune you bike and make sure it is in good running order before the camp. The more time spent on fixing the camper's, the less time he/she will be riding.

Safety
The camps will have medical personnel of wilderness responder or similar certification at all of the camps. If the camp participant is hurt and is unable to ride his/her bike, the camper's parent/ legal guardian will be notified and REQUIRED to pick up the participant. Riders are always told to stay within their limits and it is the instructors and the participant's decision to move to more challenging features. This sport does come with inherent risks as do all sports.

Adult camps
If you are an adult and interested in riding at the park you have several options:

1. Ride at the bike park for one or multiple days with instruction or without instruction
2. Stay at the High Lonesome Hut (.25 miles from the bike park) and ride at the bike park with or without instruction.

Camp personnel will be present during the days that you will be riding with or without instruction.

Pricing for adults:
Flat fee of 120.00 per day for use of bike park. (up to 4 people)
-Each additional person- $20.00
- Instruction for the group $10.00 per person
Reservations for adult camps must be reserved seven weeks prior to the date(s) requested for insurance purposes.

High Lonesome Hut pricing
-$200.00 whole cabin (it is required that you rent the whole cabin on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.

-$20.00 per person on weekday nights

Girls Camp
Stay tuned for more info, still working out logistics.
Sign up info

To register call (970)-726-4099 or send an e-mail to fdmiller@fortlewis.edu

Contact info
For High Lonesome Hut info- lonesome-hut@lonesome-hut.com
For Bike Park and camp Info- fdmiller@fortlewis.edu
More info and pictures at http://www.leelikesbikes.com/a-private-riding-paradise.html
Please call us if you have any questions. A staff member will be coming out from camp at least once to get supplies, and will check the answering machine at 970-726-4099 if you have any messages or if there is an emergency. Cell phone reception at the hut is not possible, but is pretty good up at the bike park. Be persistent and call during the day, 970-531-0674.
Philosophical Statement- The greatest danger modern children face is boredom. Lack of direction and commitment leads many young people to make poor decisions. Auto accidents, drug use and alcohol abuse takes or destroys the lives of many of our children. "Extreme" sports, such as snowboarding, skiing, rock climbing and downhill mountain biking provide the thrills which attract youthful exuberance. Learning these skills and taking them to competitions (such as downhill mountain biking's Mountain States Cup) helps our children focus. Focus helps them recognize the futility and danger of substance abuse. The well defined risks of extreme sports replace the chaotic nature of children making poor decisions about their life's direction. The risks of extreme sports can be alleviated in many ways through proper equipment and skill development. The risks of self-abusive behavior are beyond the control of adults.
It is the goal of the Huck Forest Bike Camp to teach skills in a well reasoned, progressive fashion designed to build advanced skills on a broad foundation of fundamentals. Students will not be pushed beyond their comfort level. Enjoyment and fun will be the basis of all Camp activities.