Unruly Women is partnering with the National Center for Youth Development to host the youth femme bikepacking trip! We will be leading a 3 day - 2 night bike packing adventure to Jay Cooke State Park, where we will bike 180 miles together with all of our gear - on our bikes and spend each night camping under the stars.
WHO : Femme Highschool riders (biking experience required, no bikepacking experience required)
WHAT : 3 part Mini - Series sessions to help your youth high school cyclist learn about bikepacking and whether they would like to participate in this youth bikepacking trip with NCYD and Unruly Women
WHEN: the first meeting will be February 23rd from 3:30-5:30 pm, this is where your highschooler will learn more about the trip and what is involved to make it a successful adventure - and whether they’d like to sign up! There will be 2 more sessions after this one, and then the actual Bikepacking Trip will be over Memorial Day weekend 2025.
There will be a 3 Session Bikepacking 101 mini-series where Katrina Hase (experienced bikepacker) will guide us through all we need to know to have an epic first bikepacking adventure, help prepare our bike set-ups, share what she has learned along the way and answer any questions that your youth cyclist may have.
Session 1 February 23rd : Intro + Overview (after this session, riders will decide whether they would like to join this adventure)
Session 2 : Gear, food/water, and safety
Session 3 : Trial bike set up + pre-ride
Memorial Weekend May 24-26, 2025 : the Femme Bikepacking Trip!
Leading this Adventure :
Katrina Hase recently backpacked the 2,700 mile Great Divide bike route from Canada to Mexico in the summer of 2023 and has gone on numerous bike packing adventures across the U.S. CLICK HERE for her Youtube Channel to learn more about her experience.
Rachel is a youth mountain bike coach through NCYD and has significant experience in the cycling world racing and coaching.
I (Monica) have curated and guided numerous multi-day/night backpacking and mountain biking retreats, have extensive outdoor experience adventuring and am a certified Wilderness First Responder through NOLS Wilderness School.
If you would like to sign up your youth cyclist for the first informational session on February 23rd, please click the link below to email me directly.
WHAT IS BIKEPACKING?
Bikepacking is a type of adventure touring where you combine backpacking and biking and is usually done when someone wants to cover longer distances and camp overnight.
This is usually an all-terrain style biking adventure and is done while having your bike loaded up with all necessary gear you would use for camping , often with your food and water as well, mostly while riding on a combination of gravel roads, forest service roads, single track, and more. It all depends on where your backpacking adventure is taking place.