Marquette Mountain Youth Weekend Gravity Camp: 

Love to ride trails and curious about gravity riding guided by a professional gravity Coach? Let us help you with a solid ramp up from trail to chairlift for safe descents with increasing confidence. Capacity 12 youth participants, age 12-16. 

This camp focuses on the following foundations:

• Stability and balance
• Operation of controls
• Terrain Awareness
• Direction control
• Pressure control
• Timing and coordination

We will then take it to the trail with lots of practice to explore, apply, and experiment. Expect to get lots of collaborative feedback from your Coaches to set up your success and keep your stoked have fun.

What is required to participate:

Full face helmets, elbow and knee pads, flats, dropper post and safe dependable shop quality mountain bikes are also required. We recommend bikes have been inspected and recently tuned up prior to attending camp. We call this ready to ride dependable bikes.

Marquette Mountain has top level gravity bikes to rent. Please plan ahead to secure one before they are already committed.

While we will complete a bike check upon arrival, do not expect our team to have parts and be able to make repairs that would be wise to have already completed prior to attending camp.

Participants are expected to come prepared to learn and ride in a safe environment with professional certified coaches. 

Dates:

Friday - July 11th 

6:00-8:00pm - Arrival, check in, bike check, fellowship, bike games, and wrap up with a campfire

Saturday - July 12th 

8:30am - Arrival, welcome and safety talk, expectations for the camp, athlete goals

9:00am - AM Refresher fundamentals, stability and balance, maneuvers building on the fundamentals, and games.

12:00pm - Lunch inside at Tbar, (bring cash/card for your lunch purchase)

1:00pm - Group Picture, Safety talk, lift safety, trail etiquette, trail application in groups

4:00pm - Wrap up the day

Sunday - July 13th 

9:30am - Arrival, welcome back and safety talk, expectations for the day and athlete goals

10:00am - Continue with Coaches on trail application and sessioning to safely support athlete goals with steady learning progressions.

12:00pm - Lunch inside at Tbar (bring cash/card for your lunch purchase)

1:00pm - Refresher safety talk, lift safety, trail etiquette, then trail application 

4:00pm - Wrap up the camp, share highlights, and elebrate our success

Cost for the Camp: $350 per athlete 

Lift ticket/pass for Saturday and Sunday are required and need to be purchased seperately directly through Marquette Mountain: https://shop.marquettemountain.com/summerlifttickets

Lunch is to be purchased through T bar on your own both days, no outside food is allowed.