Youth Adventure Camp June 27, 2016

The Youth Adventure Camp is an intensive adventure for youth, this camp is one that teaches from the ground up. Our adventures are geared towards encouraging our riders to develop the following skills: Relationship Building with their Horse, Problem Solving and Dealing with Fear, Barn and Stable Management.

All Youth Adventurers get a horse of their own for the week and will take two lessons each day: a barn lesson on a daily topic lesson and a trail riding lesson.

The camp will start promptly at 9am and go until 4:00pm each day. Camp will be at the Painted Bar Stables in Burdett, located on Route 79.

Things that your kids will need every day:

• Lunch
  NOTE: employees purchase their lunch next door at the Dandy Gas Station. Your children would be welcome to purchase lunch or snacks with us with the following rules: no soda, sugary drinks or snacks, candy or other non-nutritional foods.
• 2 Water Bottles or Juice - no soda, please!
• Generous Snacks!!!!!
• Sunscreen
• Bug Spray
• Boots - no sneakers or sandals allowed
• Gloves (for working in the barn and perhaps riding)
• Proper attire: pants, comfortable shirts, good socks. Please tell your kids to dress intelligently!
• We have helmets if you don't have your own.

A GOOD AND FLEXIBLE ATTITUDE!
Please remind your children before they come that working at the stables and chores is a large part of this experience. The better their attitudes and the more efficient focused, and responsible they are the more they get to ride. Please also remind them that this is not a competition and none of them have anything to prove in terms of their riding - this is supposed to be fun and an opportunity for personal growth as well as growth as an entire group. Also, they may or may not get their first choice in horses - some horses are coming off of pregnancies, some may be lame or injured, and a variety of other factors. One of these factors is that we want to select the horse that will teach them the most throughout the week and offer them the best learning experience. The mantra I will be telling the kids is "There is no bad horse, only mistaken riders."

For everyone who was not already in our online FrontDesk portal, I have entered everyone's information in and you will be receiving an email about digitally signing a waiver. Please sign it online so that we are ready to go the day of camp!

If you have paid a $150 deposit for camp, you will need to pay the remainder which is $350. Total cost of camp is $500. If you are paying per day it is $110 per day.

Looking forward to riding with your children!