By Year 12 Outdoor Ed Students
As part of the Year 12 Outdoor Education programme, we spent three days mountain biking in the Rotorua Redwoods. This involved developing our riding skills on a range of different forest trails, including taking on some downhill tracks – we took a shuttle bus to the top and had to control our speed and cornering, with bumps and roots, all the way to the bottom!
Fortunately, we had five awesome instructors from Bigfoot Adventures guiding and giving us helpful technique tips and tricks along the way. On the final day we cheered each other on as we raced around a 3.5km course as part of our Outdoor Education performance assessment.
The whole trip was intense, with psychological and physical challenges, but thoroughly rewarding as we did things we would never have thought to try.
