Special Majors
Special Majors are offered to give Round-Up campers an extra
challenge and an exciting taste of backcountry living. Campers
with a bit of camping experience (any previous A/U summer program
works!) can apply to venture out with a small group of peers
on one of these extended trips in Colorado's back
country
Session 1 - Photography:
If you love fine arts and photography or have wanted to learn more about
them, this is the major for you. Staff will guide participants
through a digital photography program that includes equipment
use, artistic theory, downloading, cropping and editing, slideshows,
etc. Fine arts will focus on sketching, watercolor and oils. The
three-day trip will go into some truly spectacular high mountain
areas for art and photography. 
Session 1 - Road Biking:
Colorado has some of the finest road biking in the country with high mountain
passes, spectacular vistas, and winding canyons. Come join us
for two weeks of work on individual riding skills, road riding
safety clinics, peloton techniques, team strategies, stage rides,
and a four-day vehicle-supported tour around the Rockies to cap
it off.
Session 2 - Mountain Biking:
A camp-based mountain biking major. We will start on easier trails building
skill and fitness and work our way up to harder trails like the
Mount Princeton classic. The three-day overnight will take us
along beautiful trails in Bassam Park while a truck hauls the
gear to our next camp. Bring your own bike or rent one here. It
will be a lot of fun!
Session 3 - Whitewater Kayaking:
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to really work with the currents
of the river or wanted to learn how to surf on one of those big,
green, glassy waves in Brown’s Canyon? If so then our whitewater
kayaking program is for you. We will start with instruction of
strokes on the lake, and rolling lessons in the pool. Then we
will progress to more moderate sections of the Arkansas River
like the Milk Run, focusing on learning how kayaks move in the
current and through whitewater. By the end of the session there
will be opportunities to learn freestyle kayaking and surfing
in Brown’s Canyon and at the Salida surf hole. Good fun!
Please plan on some additional charges for gear rental. |
