OE program does some rock climbing training

Faculty in the outdoor education program at Woodberry Forest went out and did some rock climbing training over the last couple of days.  During our time we focused on learning how to build anchors used in top rope climbing and how to effectively manage a top rope climbing site.  We were lucky to have a couple of beautiful days for the training!

Swift Water Rescue Video

Swift Water Rescue (Enhanced) from Nolan LaVoie on Vimeo.

Sports camp hikes Old Rag

The outdoor education program headed out with the sports campers today for a great hike up Old Rag!  The boys did well and their counselors offered continual encouragement along the way.  It was really a great day to be on the mountain!  Way to go guys.

Woodberry faculty take part in swift water rescue course

Woodberry's outdoor education program is hosting Landmark Learning out of North Carolina for a two day swift water rescue course. Taught by industry leader Justin Padgett swift water rescue is the industry standard in learning river rescues and safety management in moving water.  The curriculum is developed by the American Canoe Association and requires 16 hours of instruction culminating in a mock scenario.  Huge kudos go out to the members of the WFS faculty who are willing to spend a couple days of the their summer learning these valuable skills. 

Footage from the mountain bike teams season

VAHSMTB Race 4

The Woodberry Mountain Bike Team headed to Harrisonburg to compete against 130 other riders on an extremely technical mountain bike course.  The course was three miles long and the varsity riders completed four laps and the JV riders did two.  We expected to be really challenged on this course given the lack of technical riding that we are able to do, however, the boys really stepped up with personal bests for almost every rider.   These boys represented Woodberry well and are looking forward to the final weeks preparation before the state championship at Blue Ridge School next Saturday.  As always, thanks for your support, the boys could not have advanced as quickly as they are without everyone's support and patience with this growing team!

News Coverage from the ABC Station in Harrisonburg:
 http://www.whsv.com/sports/headlines/Spotswood-HS-Junior-Shines-in-Harrisonburg-Mountain-Bike-Race-258788951.html

Highlights: 
First time (to my knowledge) that WFS has had a rider on the varsity podium
Bennett first top 15 finish
Paul's first top 25 finish.
First time we have had four JV riders in the top 30!

Results-
Varsity-
3rd:         Justin
27th: Thomas
35th: Hines
36th: Woody

Junior Varsity
15th: Bennett  
22nd: Paul
27th: Ryan
28th: Alex W

Woodberry's Rapidan team goes climbing at Raven's Roost

The guys from Rapidan headed out to the parkway yesterday to go climbing at Raven's Roost.  With beautiful views of the valley the guys challenged themselves with a 60 ft climb up a near vertical face!