snowboard trip postponed

we were s'posed to go snowboarding in a sweet coach-style manner today, but i guess it is now next week. so, i kept up my gangster-theme roller rides with 105 minutes of scorcese's "Casino", followed by another 105 minutes XC skiing, and now i am gonna git my application for nicky and my annual week at lake owen skate-camp off into the mail. lake owen might ring a bell for many, you drive past a sign for it a mile down the road from telemark when yer at the chequamegon. as you can kinda see in the pics, this place is fabulous - who knew one of the best skateparks in the midwest was snuck into the woods outside telemark ??

i am camp nurse for a week, and nicky skates. i can skate as much as i like, too. check out that sweet little new kidney bowl in the corner of the pic and the rest of the park - cannot wait to hit that. i skated places like del mar, marina del rey in CA back in the day, and surf'n turf in milwaukee after that so for a guy 49 y/o i can actually still drop in there roll around and carve it up and stuff alright and it's cool. bonus for nicky - 150 of the campers are female gymnasts. it is fun to the watch the skaters and gymnasts circle each other at first, and then slowly move in. the camp itself is a beyond-first rate organization, and i can truthfully say i am honored to think that i can contribute to the work they do with young active-sports athletes. with 250 young skaters and overacheiving gymnasts flying everywhere 14 hours a day, as nurse it is a week with no sleep, pretty much, but i would not miss it for the world.

one thing else - the gymnasts have a total pro set-up in two huge pole-barns. they do a lot of their stuff on those bars down in pits, so that as you stand there at normal height you are right at the level of the bar as they are swinging around, launching, and grabbing/bailing and so forth. there are super-hi-quality athletes here in addition to little kids and i can tell ya, those gymansts are crazy impressive when seen inches from the action like that.

so if yer in the telemark area in summer, or by all means if ya got a young skater, check it out !! one of the best kept secrets in WI.