Adventure Camp
 

Puget Sound Safety offers weekend training courses (http://www.pssor.com/info.php?type=adv) that focus on the skills needed to ride larger dual sport bikes off-road but this was the first time they held a female only class. 18 women from Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and even 1 from Alaska meet in Roy, WA for a weekend filled with riding, seminars, and camping.

Riding skills learned included body position, riding over, on and around obstacles, riding in sand or gravel, stopping and starting while going up and down hills, and physically turning your bike if you find yourself stuck on a hill.

The seminars went over how to pack your bike light, cooking on the trail, rope recovery of a bike, picking up your bike, satellite trackers, and necessary accessories such as engines guards and skid plates.

Overall it was a great weekend. I learned a ton, dropped my bike several times, meet some great people and had a lot of fun.

My GS covered in frost. It was a little early for camping!
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All lined up ready for to start
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Bike lifting 101
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Me over the 3-inch obstacle
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One of the ladies rocking the 9-inch
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Bike lift practice
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Bike recovery class
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Sand riding.
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GM from Ride West showing us how he packs
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Trail cooking
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Dave’s Bar-B-Q was brought in for Saturday night
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One of the 1200s decided to level an obstacle for us. :lol:
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Awesome I wish we did something like that here.

Thanks for sharing.

That looks like an AWESOME weekend!

that's freakin' AWESOME!

I wish there were more stuff like this available!

Looks like you had a blast!

Sounds like it was a great time!

Looks like a blast!!

Me too! Would love to take a class like that!

This class was awesome! The first weekend after I made it to the snowline with not too much difficulty.
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The second weekend we spent three days in the hills of Cle Elum / Ellensburg.
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I did not drop my bike the whole weekend, which is a miracle since I did manage to do destroy the spacers on my engine guard on one particular rocky section.
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Fantastic class. I wanna go!

sweet!