Kids from Earn-A-Bike program explore the Forest of Nisene Marks
With the rain clouds parting to beautiful sunshine, kids from the Earn-A-Bike program mounted up to ride the fire road into the Forest of Nisene Marks.
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President’s message: highlights from 2014
Happy Holidays everyone, As we complete another trip around the Sun, we look back at another fun and successful year for Trips for Kids Santa Cruz. Here are just a few of our highlights from…
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Our T4KSC ride on Saturday, April 7th, was great.
New beginnings: All of the hard work at the Launch Pad really paid off. Not only did the Pad work great, it made the kids feel great. They absolutely loved it. They were all over,…
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Favorite Pics from January’s Ride
A real post about what we all learned is coming, but I want to post my favorite pics, too. So, here they are… The Crew
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Blood, Sweat, and Mechanicals: It’s a Great Mountain Biking Life
It was the ride after the wind storm. Debris so thick, it took talent to overcome the obstacles that buried the hard packed dirt of the fire road. I was in a foul mood. I…
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More Good Days for More Kids
For a girl named Barney, it was the chickens. We stood in a circle, each sharing the highs and lows of our ride in Wilder Ranch State Park, the highs ranged from the horses to…
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Lou without Oopty
John and I sat in the front of the truck, marveling at the signatures at the bottom of each of this kid’s text messages. When making arrangements with kids to take them riding, texting is…
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Photo Essay: Lessons in Taking Teens Mountain Biking
1. When recruiting kids, count on a 2/5 show-up rate. We invited 8, had five confirm the night before, and two get to us. These two lucky kids got tons of attention. We all had…
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Sometimes It’s the Bike that Saves You
By Dawn Weathersbee, T4KSC Board Secretary He wouldn’t let me take a picture of him. It’s probably all for the best, because my photography could never have captured the excitement he expressed after his first…